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One of a kind experience.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I had this for years before really playing it. I would start a game, and lose interest. Hearing the negative reviews didn't help either. Recently, I reinstalled it and decided to stick with it this time... and I'm so glad I did.

I've played every similar ( 3/4 view, 2D point and click RPG ) game to death. The Baldur's gates, the Icewind dales, even going as far back as the gold box D&D games, and every non-D&D one I could find. And I can truly say that this one stands out from all the rest as a unique, and superior title.

As a matter of fact, I think people were expecting another DnD game here, or didn't play enough of Lionheart to appreciate it, hence the amount of less than stellar reviews out there. It's the only excuse that makes sense to me, as this should have been at the top of every RPGers list of faves.

Game-play is as smooth as glass, and creative. How many other games let you target specific areas of the enemies bodies? Or decide how reckless to fight? The perk system is truly inspired, as are many items and weapons in the game. Using weapons that cause continued damage over time, wearing items that cause enemies to take elemental damage. There are even items that reflect a percentage of magic damage back at the attacker.

Lionheart starts off a little hard, and can be difficult in spots later on, but if you stick with it, and play smart, you are greatly rewarded.

The graphics are the cleanest, smoothest, and most detailed out of Black Isle's previous titles. The music is a real treat for the ears, as is the voice acting. And character developement is fun and rewarding.

All in all, one of the best RPGs I've played. And worth numerous replays, as well. If you're a fan of similar games. Stick with it... and completely ignore the negative reviews.

Wonderful

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: August 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you like games from Interplay especially in the genre of Baldur's Gate, Fallout and Planescape Torment, I would highly recommend this gem of a game from Black Isle. The game is a very interesting and very fun to play fusion of a real time type game like Diablo or Nox and the more turn based character development type games like Fallout and Baldur's Gate. The story plays a central role as does the character development. The depth to which certain groups can be played is truly a role playing experience. Try your hand as an inquistor or a knight, or dable in the forbidden arts as a wielder or even the darker arts as a necromancer. The action is similar to Diablo, Baldur's Gate and Nox but its slow paced enough and the pause key allows you play more turn based. The role playing aspect and well written and interesting story make it a pleasure to play and the depth to which you can play an evil character is very very impressive. Do to the skill based system and parallel story lines the game has a great deal of replayability.

FANTASTIC

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: April 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Lionheart: Legacy Of The Crusader is a wonderful game, which includes RPG, Action and Adventure. Even people, that are not big fans of RPG's will probably love this game, since there is a lot of action happening. Or if you don't like shooting game this'll probably suit you too, because it's 16th. century and you walk through medieval world full of adventures,...and of course magic.

In 12th. century magic and evil spirits were released, it changed medieval Earth forever. So now it's you're destiny to bring life to it's proper look.

On a beginning you choose one of the four races:Feralkin, Demokin, Sylvant or Human Pureblood. And then you may enter the magical world of Lionheart, where you can become a Wielder, a Knight, or Inquisitioner. All have different quests and they grant you with different upgrades, but main quests do not change.

As you walk through ancient lands, you will meet different obstacles and in order to get past them you have to do quests. Now quests can be really simple, like deliver something to somebody, or really tough like you have to kill somebody or something. Every time you do something right, you will get experience points. You need experience points in order to get to another character level. And if you were successful in getting a new character level, that means you get to spend points in one or more of the skill branches.

Skill branches are divided into different sections and in these sections are the skills. Skills are of many types: Fighting Skills, Thievery, Lockpicking, Negotiation, Sneaking, Divine Magic, Thought Magic, and Tribal Magic.

The reason why I like this game is, because there is always a lot of action; you can do almost everything, as a person in real life; and it's fantastic.

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The only reson, why I gave the rating of 4 stars sbecause they rushed this game and it's really buggy.

Do not buy this game unless...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: September 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I repeat do not buy this game unless you are completely desperate for a crpg (i.e. you have played all others in existence). I played the demo and the full release is just as bad.

GOOD RPG

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Reading some of the other reviews here I was feeling I had made a mistake in buying this game. Truth is I got quite involved in it from beginning to end.

As some other reviewers have noted, about halfway through the game narrows down to a single purely hack-n-slash non-stop all-out war but a few things keep the game interesting: The character will keep leveling up, so directing his skill points and perks provides variety to the otherwise repetitive and seemingly endless confrontations. Almost every locale has its own types of foes and tactics that work on one type of foe may not work on another. Inventory can be very important in this game, particularly enchanted armor and weapons, and partly because there is no prohibition against changing armor and weapons during a battle. At times inventory management is the name of the game.

I purchased a French edition to get practice in French but wound up playing the English version because the French edition still had English voiceovers anyway. The French edition does a complete install to your hard drive and once installed you can run the game without the CD in your CD drive. Using the multi player option on a home network is thus facilitated.

As others have noted, the game plays only 800X600 resolution in non-zooming isometric view but the graphics were colorful and imaginative. The characters seem to be fully 3D and even cast shadows. The result is that this game is a lot easier on your eyes than the Infinity Engine games like Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale.

Miscellaneous: Sound track music is good though not memorable. Spell effects are not terrifically spectacular but there is an interesting variety to them. Game ran well on an older AMD Duron driven system with FX 5200 graphics board under Windows 98SE although I had to turn off overclocking on the graphics card to get to El Calle Perdido. Perhaps because it is part 3D, the game make considerable demands on the graphics subsystem and overclocking the FX 5200 notably improved the rate of motion and action.

Back in the day...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I worked my way from beginning to end on this. I got it because I saw this was the last in line of it's type from Black Isle. I ran this on an 866mhz, 133 bus(off a vitural DVD/image file) and I don't think it could have run smoother.

so irritating!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I got this game a few days ago and enjoyed playing it once I figured out what to do. This game has good points and one major bad point that makes the game unplayable. First off, I like how you can create your own character not a lot of options but that is okay or choose a ready made character. Also I enjoyed ppicking out the skills they would have. My MAJOR button pusher is that the enemies are too hard to kill! For example, I am fighting off four asassins at once cannot get past them cuz I keep on dying. As one reviewer pointed out, games are supposed to be fun not FRUSTRATING to no end that make you want to smash the game against the wall! I am pretty much stuck in the game because of this really stupid problem. If I figure a way out of this dilemma maybe I will change my mind. Most of the time you swing your weapon you don't hit anything! So frustrating! If you like purely hack and slash games and moderately easy game play I would recommend Enclave. The graphics are really good in that game and you are playing as though you are looking over your character's shoulder. But anyway, I cannot complete any more quests on Lionheart because every time I fight an enemy i die! I enjoy the game otherwise.

DONT Bother with this game!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: March 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Bought this game and had hoped it would be an RPG worth playing. The first half of the game plays well, it is balanced and fun to play. The second half on this game after the Crypt of the Lance and Nostradamus quest (English Invasion of Spain) is THE WORST thought out combat system of any RPG! From here the games is no longer an RPG, it becomes a hack and slash with the games combat engine favoring enemy character which you CANNOT go one on one melee without allied help or more healing items than the games merchants allow you to buy.

Overall, I give this game one star. Dont waste your time with this game!

WOW

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: August 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you're a big fan of Fallout 1 & 2, and you also like games like Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale series, then this game is for you. For the magnitude of this RPG, the graphics are great. The characters, spells and monsters are fully 3D, while the highly detailed backrounds are 2D. This game is like Fallout on steroids; in preproduction it was called Fallout Fantasy. If you're like me then you're a person who doesn't like the limitations of a certain class. This game utilizes the Fallout's SPECIAL system to let you shape your own character. I have actually heard of a game tester from Black Isle studios who invested all his points into Speech, Barter and Sneak, and he passed the whole game hardly fighting. As you progress thru the game, you can invest your skill points into the sneak skill and never fight an enemy (by successfully sneaking past enemies you gain 75% of the experience as if you would have killed the enemy), or you can choose to be good at Unarmed combat (like Monks) and also be good at Magic (Magic Monk) . I've been reading these peoples previews and laughing the whole time. At least give this game a try, it is not the best RPG ever, but its a very, very solid RPG and i rate it 8.7 out of 10.
Remember, Ignorance is the epitome of stupidity.

Best RPG since Planescape...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: August 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

From the name behind the Fallout series and Planescape Torment comes Lionheart. Ive put many hours into this game already, and I can easily say its the best computer RPG since Planescape. The story is instantly deep and satisfying, this game is worth the $$$ all the way!!

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