The Immortal IBM PC Version
Sandcastle released Will Harvey's The Immortal for IBM PC MS-DOS 2.11 in 1991. Kenneth L. Hurley ported the original Apple II GS version of 1990 to IBM PC. The Immortal displays in 16-color EGA/VGA 320x200. The Immortal audio supports AdLib, Roland and Sound Blaster.
The Immortal is coded and presented well, but it is ultimately a linear action-adventure game with little in the way of replay-value.
If The Immortal featured a full-screen playfield drawspace, non-linear exploration and turn-based tactics, it would have scored much higher.
That said, The Immortal was one of the most atmospheric games of 1990-91. Overall, I give it 5/10.
Features of The Immortal
- Isometric perspective with screen-scrolling and flip-screen exploration
- 256x128px playfield drawspace
- 8-level labyrinth
- Vitality (15 HPs)
- Resting
- Inventory mode
- Combat: Jab, Slash, Parry
- Death animations
- Spells
- Traps & Treasures
- Ladders
- NPCs & Dialogue
- Puzzles & Riddles
- Magic Carpet
- Gold & Merchant
- Joystick control
- Control a Gandalf-like figure wielding sword and staff
The Immortal was distributed on 2x 5.25" 360kB DS DD floppy disks or 1x 3.5" 720kB diskette. The install size is 600K.
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