Ishar 3: The Seven Gates of Infinity

abehemot 2022-10-30
(6/10)
Ishar 3 is a weaker title than its predecessors. The graphics is still beautiful, but somehow less atmospheric. The game engine is more suited for open fields than for city settings, due to limited npc interactions and sluggish controls.
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mailman 2020-12-04
(6/10)
The weakest of all titles in the series. Ishar 3 is bugged (fortunately WHDLoad saves the day) and the whole game is flattened to a maze race. The idea of the quasi open world was abandoned and you are placed in the world of five labirynths with different textures serving as walls. You go into these labirynths several times in a game fighting the same opponents over and over again. The riddles are difficult and based rather on luck in finding the solution than a logic assumption. The plot is weak and the whole magic of the Ishar's world is completely gone in this installment (maybe because of the time travel concept). It's a pity that a very unique trilogy ended in such a miserable way.
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gaff 2017-10-06
(8/10)
Unlike the previous part, the game starts in large city. It was much more difficult for me to get into the game, because what is city in compare with forest, fog and swamps...

Finally, I've almost finished it. But there's some bug (or unfulfilled prerequisite) with Thina & Zoltar which don't want to leave my commando and estabilish their own family somewhere in the forest. That's why I can't visit their grandson tens of years after in the same forest and thus I can't slay Dragon! I've tried to kill them both and outsmart the game, but it probably also knows that two corpses hardly make offspring :-)

Anyway, Ishar 3 is graphically very nice, if there's some music it's also pleasant, I enjoyed it and it's pity I couldn't finish it because of the importunate Zoltar's family
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radioman970 2010-09-17
(7/10)
Not my favorite of the series. I really wanted to like it a lot but ended up not playing it nearly as much as the other 2.

I had a problem with disk swapping...there was a point in that first city where if I didn't switch to a certain disk (without being prompted, just had to know when to do it) the game would crash. I got used to switching properly and all was well.

7/10. Not the classic of the other 2 but still quite fun.
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Myszaqu 2008-02-09
(7/10)
This part has lost some magic of previous games... Maybe too fast made, with too less effort put in it. Anyway, still worth of seeing and playing
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sys2074 2005-08-08
(6/10)
Very good graphics but the gamplay was a bit bland and it was hard to get into it for a non-regular RPG'er! I miss some more freedom of interactivity for a good RPG! Like trying to seduce the dancers in the bar or find a hooker on the streets!
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