Product Description

Enter a world of dragons, destiny and epic adventure to fulfill the dragon-rider legacy. The major motion picture from 20th Century Fox in theatres everywhere December 2006.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11124 in Video Games
• Brand: Vivendi Universal
• Model: 72596
• Published on: 2006-11
• Released on: 2006-11-17
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .58" h x 5.43" w x 7.53" l, .33 pounds

Features

• Live the Adventure. Experience the authentic Eragon universe in the official game of the 20th Century Fox Film.
• Fulfill your destiny as a Rider. With your dragon ally, experience breathless dragon flight and unleash devastating dragon summon attacks.
• Your foes will crumble under the weight of your thunderous magic attacks, powerful melee combos and ruinous finishing moves.
• Unlikely allies will aid you. A second player can join at any time for true drop-in co-op play with special team attack bonuses.

Customer Reviews

Better than I expected
Game type: Linear 3rd person
Genre: Action fighting
5 star rating system
Graphics 3 Fun 5 Story 4 Replay Value 2 Overall 3

Let me start off by saying that this game is good, not great. I was actually pleasantly surprised, because I asked for this game for CHRISTMAS after seeing it on the xbox website. To me it seemed like one of my all time favorite orig. Xbox games LOTR 2 towers. Then I read the reviews before getting the game and was horrified. Maybe I was surprised because I wasn't expecting much, but I found the game to be fun and have that familiar satisfying combat system that I loved in LOTR. You learn magic as you progress and it's awesome being able to push, pull, use fire, and fire magic arrows at enemies. There's a good mix of fighting and puzzles here. at times you must figure out where to jump, climb, and or shimmy and use magic to build bridges.

The dragon levels are a sore spot in the game. Lack of camera panning is a cramp, but dealable. True, this doesn't offer a lot of replay value and is shorter than some games, but actually about average for this type of game (not every game is going to have 100+ hours of game time like Oblivion). This may not be your bag if your more into sandbox style (GTA, Saint's Row) games. As I grew up with linear games I find sandbox games aren't my bag. I say it's a solid rental for players who enjoy linear story driven offline play.

What I generally do is pick up games used on ebay or Amazon and resell them when done. I generally break even, sometimes even turn a profit.

Good gaming to you all,
Stang05driver

The game designers took a good book and turned it into a
I'm a fan of the book and I liked how the movie trailers looked so I thought the game would be worth getting. I was wrong.

While the graphics are nice and crisp and the 2 player cooperative play is fun, everthing else was pretty dissapointing and many aspects of the game story were nothing like the book.

You start out hunting a deer and then you find the the famous dragon egg. Then you get plunged into a battle with a bunch of Galbatrox's stooges who are trying to kill Brom, an old story teller (who is really a former dragon rider). It was kind of funny to see Eragon, a 16 year old farm boy who is not supposed to have ever fought anyone in his life do a bunch of Jedi-like fighting moves and take down 6 guys. Pretty much from this point on it's kill guys, then kill a few more guys, then tell Saphira(your dragon) to kill more guys. There are many things in the game story which are totally unlike the book. First, Eragon and Brom didn't fight anyone until they reached a village that had been ravaged by Urgals. By the way, they only fought two or three of them. Second, Eragon didn't learn to use magic until the they fought with the Urgals I just mentioned above. When Brom finds out about it he is very upset, he doesn't encourage him to keep using it. Third, Brom and Eragon don't defeat the Razac, the Razac kill Brom by suprising him and drugging him and Eragon only escapes because Murtagh showed up to help him. By the time Eragon rescues Arya from Durza, Brom is dead.

It's also easy, all you have to do to beat Durza in the final showdown is pepper him continually with magic arrows.

All in all, a pretty lame adaptation. Save you [...] to pay for your ticket to see Eragon in theatres and buy and an extra large popcorn and soda. The game was lame but I still expect good things from the movie.

Great game for young and old!
Yes this game is very easy, but it is a lot of fun. I played this with my son and we finished the game in about 10 hours. The cheat codes make it even easier. Flying the dragon takes some work and we change controllers so I ride and my son flies.

I don't think this is for people who take gaming too seriously.