Destiny Of The Doctors PC Game

[sontaran]

Hi readers,

Destiny of the doctors was a 1997 Doctor who PC game!
The bulk of the game takes place in the Doctor's TARDIS (and, on occasion, the Master's TARDIS; reached via "junctions" between the two time machines). The game begins in the Console Room of the Fourth Doctor; and the player must then select one of the Time Lord's seven regenerations and activate the TARDIS to go in search of them.

Upon reaching the TARDIS of the selected Doctor (and also before almost every puzzle in the game), the player can use a "Time Winder" (a pyramid-like save point) and then set out into the TARDIS to find the Master (and, accordingly, the Doctor).

Upon leaving the Console Room, the player, as the Graak, must find the Great Divide; a chasm which separates the TARDIS from the Determinant. However, the Master has placed several of the Doctor's enemies in the TARDIS to make things more difficult for the Graak; such as Daleks, Cybermen, Autons, Ice Warriors, Quarks, Sea Devils, Silurians, Sontarans, Yeti and Zygons. There are weapons in the TARDIS that can be used to incapacitate or kill these monsters; some of which can be kept throughout the quest (such as the sonic screwdriver, or a radio used to contact Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart for advice and hints), and others which can only be used for a limited time (such as Dalekanium and watering cans).

Upon reaching the Great Divide, the player selects a symbol and the Master gives the Graak a riddle; and, during the loading time, a map of the area of the TARDIS the player will explore is shown. The Graak will have to complete a certain objective (eg. perform the Doctor Who theme on floor tiles), find certain information on monsters or Doctors (either from the Doctor's "City of Thoughts" databank in his TARDIS; or the Master's "Monster Database"), or collect an item (such as a Stattenheim remote, or a Nestene Consciousness control sphere). Whilst the player is scouring the TARDIS(es), they may use telepathic links with the Doctor; these resemble the title sequence effect of the Third Doctor's era, and the Doctor will give a short clue to the player. Having completed their task (out of a possible 28 tasks), the Graak then returns and gives the Master the item, or crosses a grid of tiles, or selects the true Doctor out of three possible choices, or similar. If the player fails, they will have to begin again (from the nearest Time Winder). If they succeed, they will have to face the Master in the Determinant. If they defeat the Master, that incarnation of the Doctor is freed:

# First Doctor - A chase around the Celestial Toymaker's toybox (with Quarks)
# Second Doctor - A race against the Master on London Underground trains (with Yeti)
# Third Doctor - Seek and destroy the Dalek spaceship
# Fourth Doctor - Search around the maze that is the Doctor's mind (with Raston warrior robots)
# Fifth Doctor - A joust in a medieval ring against Sontaran on a hoverbike
# Sixth Doctor - Search the icy wilderness of Mars to find the Doctor
# Seventh Doctor - Race against the Master's car in the Doctor's Edwardian car, Bessie (with Autons)
#FINAL CHALLENGE- At the end you have to go underwater with the sedevils and find a chameber were you can relese the Doctors.
Many of the doctors enemy are in the tardis including,
Daleks, Cybermen, Sea Devils, Silurians, Zygons, Sontarons, Autons, Quarks, Yeti and Ice Warriors. The only thing is that the monsters all do the same thing: they walk right up to you and shoot you at point blank range. The only real difference between them is their weaknesses and speed! Quarks and Yeti hobble but Daleks zoom around very quickly).

The game is not mostly seen in the shops because there not making it any more but you can order it of Ebey/worked for me!
It was made by Studio Fish and BBC multimedia.

Here Is The Original TV AD!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiatL6W8O7Y

[Slagathor]

I've seen clips, but never played the game.

BTW, welcome to the forum.

[duncan]

I have the game, but I'll be damned if I can understand how to play it.

[sontaran]

The TARDIS Console is a heavily-simplifed version of the Type 41 console as used mainly during Tom Baker’s reign as the Doctor (when you begin the game, his is the first Doctor’s level you are placed in). The roundels are omnipresent, as are the other standard bits and pieces of the walls, yet there’s a dark, dingy and almost depressing feel from the TARDIS, often echoed by the Cloister Bell or, in many cases, the apparent hopelessness of one’s predicament.

The Daleks sport a somewhat retro look with the larger skirts of The Dalek Invasion of Earth and the tops of more ‘modern’ Daleks. Listening to them, methinks they didn’t use exactly the same vocoder/ring modulator set-up they used for the TV series Dalek voices.

The Cybermen look like stiffer, more streamlined versions of the Cybermen throughout the ’80s, yet have their guns built into their heads (ala Revenge of the Cybermen and, more recently, Real Time). They appear to be bright blue lasers. They also talk in the singsong manner of the original Mondasian Cybermen of The Tenth Planet, which is initially disorientating for the obsessive Whovian.

Many monsters of the past make appearances, amongst them the Autons (of the generic overall-wearing type from Spearhead from Space, only with flat faces), Sontarans (fetchingly redesigned with blue uniforms – snazzy), the Yeti (more The Abominable Snowmen than The Web of Fear) and Zygons (much the same, only a bit less slimy). Even the humble Cybermats of The Tomb of the Cybermen variation make an appearance in one of the Master’s possible challenges.

Yet it is only when one gets to the Great Divide, apparently part of Siralos linked to the Doctor’s TARDIS, that the fun begins. Here, you, as Graak, must complete one of the Master’s challenges or tasks in order to cross the Great Divide. The easiest ones to go for are the fetching tasks, where one must fetch an object in the TARDIS and hand it to the Master, or the ‘question rounds’, where one is presented with three possible Doctors or three possible options and you have to choose the right one to cross properly.
The game is quite easy once you get the hang of it!
Once you grab all seven Doctors, you’re plunged into the TARDIS’s underwater system (you may have encountered it earlier if you took the Fifth Doctor fetching task), only it’s empty this time – no Sea Devils and no baddies. Heading through, you go through doors and airlocks and finally come to what one may assume is the Power Room.I am not going to tell you any more so it can still be a surprise!
Cheats! Cheats! Cheats! Cheats! Cheats! Cheats! Cheats!

Warning Turn away now if you don’t want to cheat. Considering the game we’re discussing here, you may just need these cheats. I did.
I originally posted this at the OG forums, but the thread’s was wiped during the site upgrades.

If you’ve ever tried playing DoD, then you probably know what utter hell it is to get through it. It’s damned near impossible to finish unless you’re a really, really great gamer.

But then there are the rest of us, for whom there are cheats. Good, fun, helpful cheats!

Well, one cheat. It’s quite simple to use, really. And, as I mentioned earlier, surprisingly simple.

Basically, what you do is replace the energy values file. Now, this is a file on the CD that dictates how much energy is lost by certain actions or attacks. I can’t remember where I found out about this (could’ve been TME), but copy the contents of the CD-ROM into a folder somewhere on your HD (you can install first and then copy the CD into a separate folder to the installation folder).

Pop into the “energy” folder and make a copy of energy.val. Then download this energy.val file into that folder (it’s the same file, only I’ve made almost all of the values zero so you’re basically untouchable).

At this point, you could burn a new CD with the new energy values, but you don’t have to. It’ll work fine otherwise – I only know because I’m too lazy to actually reach the eight inches across my desk for a blank CD. Just open DOD.exe and play.

Back to whether to install first. What I’ve done is install to C:\Program Files\BBC\Destiny of the Doctors and copy the CD to C:\Program Files\BBC\Destiny of the Doctors CD-ROM. Because I’ve already installed it, even when I play the game from the CD-ROM folder, it’ll save my games to C:\Program Files\BBC\Destiny of the Doctors\savegame!