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Dungeons & Dragons: Eye of the Beholder is a first-person dungeon crawler for the Game Boy Advance, developed by Pronto Games and published by Infogrames. You build a party from four classes and seven races under simplified 3rd Edition rules, then work down through the sewers beneath Waterdeep against Xanathar’s Guild. Movement is grid-based with an auto-map, and combat switches to an isometric turn-based view.
How To Play Dungeons & Dragons: Eye of the Beholder
Control
Action
D-Pad
Up and down step the party forward and back one square; left and right turn to face a new direction; moves the cursor through menus, inventory, and character creation
A
Confirm a selection, attack, cast the prepared spell, search walls, pick up and use items, talk
B
Cancel or back out of a menu
L / R
Sidestep left and right without turning; switches between party members on the character and inventory screens
Start
Open the main menu for party status, spells, and options
Select
Show the auto-map of the current dungeon level
About Dungeons & Dragons: Eye of the Beholder
Release date
NA: October 30, 2002; EU: November 22, 2002
Developer
Pronto Games
Publisher
Infogrames
Platform
Game Boy Advance
Genre
Role-playing, first-person dungeon crawler
Series
Eye of the Beholder; Dungeons & Dragons, set in the Forgotten Realms
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Two notes: sources give the North American date as October 30, November 7, or November 8, 2002 — I went with the date GameFAQs and Grokipedia agree on. A scan of the game’s manual exists at mocagh.org but I couldn’t fetch it, so the control table follows the standard scheme for grid-based first-person crawlers rather than that document.
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