You won’t need leather home theater seating to enjoy Dungeons and Dragons Tactics, the latest D&D videogame from Wizards of the Coast and Atari. That’s because it’s on the Sony PSP and, despite some lukewarm reviews, I feel the game is quite good.
Sure, it’s not as flashy as Final Fantasy Tactics or the forthcoming Disgaea Afternoon of Darkness (PSP) title, but it does go a long way toward capturing the atmosphere of the old paper-pen-and-2d20 tabletop game so many people enjoyed in their youth.
Dungeons and Dragons is losing its “cool” appeal to trading card games like YuGiOh!, so perhaps younger gamers won’t be able to relate. But for an old gamer like me, this PSP title is role-playing in the most classic sense, and the best videogame version of the D&D universe since the first Neverwinter Nights title for PC.
