Now this is just cruel GOG, instead of Release: Evil Islands I've read Resident Evil ....., I've almost thought it's true :(

What a week for games and old ones at that. Think i played this a long time ago now will be playing it again.

So is it more of an RPG or a RTS/Strategy game?
What part of it is strategy?
Do you command single heroes or units?
Are there any building aspects or is it mainly exploration and combat?
How linear or open is it?
Is it split in separated missions, levels, maps, e.g. with a hub in between them, or is it one world to explore (or connected maps like in Baldur's Gate)?
How long is it, more or less?
How strong are story and role-playing aspects (I mean in the sense of dialogue, choices, quests, not stats)?
How combat-heavy is it?
How tactical is the combat? Is it based on dice rolls?
What happens when you die? How's the save system? Can you save wherever you want to? Only outside combat?

(I was a fan of Rage of Mages 1+2 back in the days, but never played Evil Islands. I generally prefer RPGs and don't enjoy RTS/strategy that much.)

Are resources limited? Can you be put into a situation where it's virtually impossible to continue because you lost your followers?

RPG, pure RPG
Equipping the characters I guess? You can't change items during the "Game phase", only when traveling from an area to the other
Single characters. Zak is the main that is (almost) always under your control, then up to two companions.
No building, though there is crafting.
So and so. Each island has a few areas, and there are multiple quests that you either get from the island's safe zones, or you pick up as an item. If you get the main quest's objective done, you can continue on to the next island (if you wish to do so), or you can continue with the other side missions.
Each island has areas you can visit, though you will need to clean an area to be able to automatically traverse through it to visit the next. If the area isn't considered cleared, you'll have to manually go to the proper exit.
Nival says about 100 hours. Main quest should take about 30 or so. Assuming you rush through it (which will need cheats), and do everything, it should still take about 50 hours or so.
There ain't that many choices in dialogue, though you can skip a mission or two. Don't recall any real choices, other than perhaps how to do a mission (you need to get an item from an enemy, you can either kill them, or steal it from them).
I'd say a lot. You don't need to fight everything, but enemies do not respawn, and you may find yourself wishing you'd fought those enemies you skipped back at the first island.
Real time with pause. Multiple damage types (crushing, piercing, acid, lightning etc), with armor being resistant and vulnerable. Able to target specific body parts, with variable results (hit an arm, attacks become slower. Hit both arms enough, no more attacks). Game also supports backstabs, and you will be relying on them for quite a bit.
Die and it's game over. Game autosaves when entering and when leaving an area, and you are free to save at any time you want (even during combat).

It is RPG
You have to think carefully of your moves. Its not strategy in Starcraft manner.
There is an excellent crafting system.
You can only go places you have access to but you can do them in any order.
There are connected maps.
I loved the story myself.
You will fight alot. But also you will hide alot. There are times you just cant fight. The enemies will be too strong unless you cheat.
When you die you load. :)) You can save anytime anywhere or quicksave with F5 key

Yes, and no. The stores where you can craft always have a number of materials, even if you bought everything a minute ago. Whenever you enter the store, they seem to resupply.
The enemies however do not respawn. So if you find an enemy that drops a material you'd like to have more of, you can't exactly farm those forever. On the other hand, you can break down the item or spell you crafted to get back the items you used, not sure if you get everything back or not though.

Not that I recall.

Game works perfectly. However I am having trouble with camera. When I use right mouse button to move camera, it doesnt move freely. It hopes to angles to angles and especially from top and rear view. I also have cd version installed. It doesnt have that problem.

I was quick off the mark, i do tend to hoover rpgs up.
Still playing RoM off and on, maybe that will appear soon too...hope so my disc's on it's last legs.
Cheers for thinking of me, looking forward to playing this, with luck it's just as difficult as rage of mages.

TC :)

I thought that had to do with the mouse sensitivity, since moving the camera with Ctrl+Arrows did seem to ignore the snapping, but it still moved too fast. Does using the keyboard to move the camera help?

Thanks for the helpful, detailed replies!

looks interesting, now on my wish list.

hmm that didnt help. Its moving crazy fast when I use keyboard. So far I tried everything. I checked CD version and tried to change the options (from the gog.com folder in applications in the start menu) accordingly but that didnt help so far. Will post if I find a solution.


EDIT: I tried everything I could. I uninstalled both versions and installed gog version again. The camera moves fine when moving sideways. But it acts like there are only two view angles when moving up and down with the right mouse.

Depends on the blow I'd say. Is the blow delivered by a wad of cash that you'll get to keep? Are we talking about someone hitting you or this kind of blow? By blow, do you mean any of the songs or albums by that name, or perhaps any of the music groups that go by that? Could it be that you are referring to the film, or is someone blowing on your head? And which of the two heads would that be?

Screw all that, get the game. Safer that way ;)