Will Harvey (of Zany Golf fame) is back with an incredible new game. You are a wizard and you must rescue your mentor Mordamir from a bottomless cavern.
Imagine walking around in the Zany Golf type of world, only there are rooms, and they are full of dangerous monsters and traps, and untold treasures!
You start in a small room. Walking up to a well, a candle resting on the well sparks to life and a cloudy apparition appears, telling you (or someone before you) to come rescue him. The animation is top-notch.
A book comes with the game that tells the story of The Immortal, and provides very important clues to solving the game.
However, the game play can get difficult, especially when you enter a fight. You can't escape from the fight, you can't use your fireballs if you have them, and ducking out of the way is very tough to do. This is the only real problem with the game play, but since it is required to solve the game, inexperienced players will probably find it annoying.
One other problem is the lack of good error trapping. If you try to go to the control panel the game blows up. It's mentioned in the documentation, but it shouldn't happen. If the "graphics disk" isn't in the drive when you press a key, you aren't prompted for it again--the program just dies. These parts of the game make it less user-friendly.
The protection scheme are a series of passwords to get to higher points in the game. The keys to the passwords are in the manual. This would be fine if the Immortal was easily hard drive installable, but it isn't. Even with the methods detailed in two files on GEnie, we couldn't get it to run off a hard disk.
The graphics are superb, the sound is cool, and there's lots to explore. The game may be too difficult for inexperienced gamers, but man, does it look great or what? Now if I can just get the amulet and divert that beam of light....
