Dungeons & Dragons: Tactics

Even though it has the word "tactics" in the title, even though it's packed with familiar-looking grid-based strategy, there's no other portable game quite like Dungeons & Dragons Tactics. Meticulous enough for the most hardcore D&D fans, Tactics squeezes in several books' worth of rulemongering tabletop knowledge while still managing to be accessible for fans who just want to roll up some barbarians and kill some monsters already. We've already talked up D&D Tactics' extensive features and » Read Full Dungeons & Dragons: Tactics preview

Early next year, PSP owners will get the opportunity to take D&D on the road, without having to schlep a big-ass rulebook around with them. Actually, that's half true. Dungeons and Dragons: Tactics will arrive on shelves in February, promising to be as faithful as possible to the game, going so far as cramming in about 13 rulebooks of dungeon-crawlin' and magic missile-firing goodness. Atari stopped by to demo an Alpha-build of the new strategy game. The game plays much like the table-top » Read Full Dungeons & Dragons: Tactics preview

We got our first look at Dungeons & Dragons: Tactics in May, and back then its grainy caves and blocky characters looked ugly even by PSP standards. Still, the thought of a turn-based, D&D-themed strategy game piqued our interest, and after seeing the handheld game in action, it's obvious that D&D: Tactics has come a long way in the past few months. The setup of Tactics is simple: as a mortal caught up in a conflict between two powerful dragons, you'll build a party of 4-6 fantasy characters » Read Full Dungeons & Dragons: Tactics preview

This winter, fans of Dungeons & Dragons will have yet another way to avoid actually playing their favorite tabletop game. Unlike Neverwinter Nights or D&D Online, though, Dungeons & Dragons: Tactics is a no-nonsense, combat-centric adventure that lets players fight monsters the way they were meant to be fought: on a grid, in turns. It may not look too pretty from the screens we have here, but Tactics has a few interesting things going for it. For starters, players won't be shoehorned into a » Read Full Dungeons & Dragons: Tactics preview