Now, if you’re wondering if you should keep reading this review since I seem to have already canned the game, take heart. TTOEE is a bad role-playing game, but it’s not a horrible game. That’s because TTOEE has excellent mechanics, and it works well as a turn-based tactical strategy game. It’s just that for some reason Troika decided not to go the Fallout Tactics route, and instead they surrounded the engine with the thinnest of thin role-playing games. And so there isn’t any story in TTOEE (there isn’t even a quest involving the Temple of Elemental Evil; you just go there because there isn’t anywhere else to go) and there’s barely any character development (you’re completely anonymous, and you only make it to level 10). There isn’t even anything for thief characters to do (I think there might be a grand total of 10 traps in the game). No, TTOEE is all about turn-based combat. If you’re looking for anything else, then you’re looking in the wrong place.