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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!!

Great quarter-game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game was really fun at first. Barcelona is fun like the city of Amn in Baulder's gate...but that's all that there is to this game.

The people that join you just follow you around. You can't interact with them or control and develope them like Ice Wind Dale or baulder's gate. If you want a hack and slash, get Dungeon Seige...if you want a real rpg with a plot, get BGII.

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.

Another excellent Interplay game ruined by crippling errors

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: August 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

After loosely following the production of this game for several months, a friend informed me that it was out. Being a Fallout buff (the SPECIAL system being used in Lionheart and all) and a (former) fan of Black Isle and Interplay, I immediately ordered it. When it came, I tore into the box, read the instruction manual... installed the game... and six hours later it sat uninstalled.

Why is this? After spending three hours playing a game, I experienced a severe error that caused me to crash to the desktop whenever I tried to leave the map I was currently on. I had no saves beforehand, and would have had to start over. Normally, I'd just try over again and hope for the best, but after checking the official Lionheart Support Forum, I found that it is apparently a common occurence, usually happening when you have a companion in your party, and seemingly at random. Since I had Cervantes in my party at the time(an interesting character who acts like a real life version of his creation, Don Quixote), I can only assume that he triggered the errors. Just like so many other Interplay games (Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel comes to mind), it's a great looking, innovative game that is rendered almost unplayable by Interplay's complete and total lack of quality assurance and debugging.

I only gave this game such a bad rating because, quite frankly, I can't stand the prospect of playing a game for several days, only to have a small random error destroy the time I've spent on it. If you're deadset on buying it, then it's strongly suggested that you watch out for patches and pay attention to the support forums beforehand to see what you're getting into. Were it not so buggy, it'd probably get four stars as opposed to two. The NPCs you run into are interesting, the gameplay is unique, and it managed to integrate the SPECIAL system into real time combat nicely (without a Fallout: Tactics Continuous Turn Based setup, which surprised me). Hopefully, Interplay will release some patches quickly, but given their track record, it will most likely be too little and too late.

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.

Une déception totale

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Lion Heart est un jeu plein de déceptions. Malheureusement, le nouveau système de jeu est très inovateur, mais très mal exploité. De plus, la qualité graphique des animations n'égale même pas celle retrouvée dans Baldur's Gate I. Le personne se déplace brusquement et ne possède aucune fluidité ou de mouvement naturel. Il ressemble à un robot. J'ai été fortement déçu de la qualité de ce jeu et je crois que les programmeurs au niveau des graphiques auraient pu fournir un effort supplémentaire lors de la conception des animations. De plus, les arrières plans ne sont pas plus impressionnant, ils ont tous le même ton et il cache ce que le personnage devrait voir à cause de l'Effet 2D. Lion Heart ressemble au jeu des années 1999. Je crois que le concept est bon, mais que la qualité graphique enlève tout ce qui rend ce jeu agréable. Le prix ne vaut pas le jeu! Attender plutôt Final Fantasy XI !

Doesn't live up to its early promise

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 11 / 12
Date: August 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Lionheart starts out promising, with its interesting and (at least among computer RPG settings) unique premise. The game is set in an alternate 16th century Europe, roughly four centuries after the Crusaders were tricked into unleashing demons and magic into the world. The first part of the game works well, centered on the city of Barcelona, which is the stronghold of the Inquisition, which tries to put down magic and demons by extreme means. There are many opportunities for real role-playing, in the sense of an opportunity to make decisions (such as whether you want to operate on the side of the strict Inquisition, or work for less legal groups, such as the magic users). The quests of the various groups intertwine, so that you can't please everyone, and will ultimately be forced to make a choice on who you want as your allies. Barcelona also is home to a number of interesting variants of real-life 16th century people, such as DaVinci, Galileo, and Shakespeare, which adds extra interest.

Unfortunately, once your quests send you away from Barcelona, the game turns into a slogfest of ceaseless combat. When you've finished some of the later areas, the floors will literally be covered wall-to-wall with corpses. With all the fighting, the opportunity for real decision-making vanishes, and the game becomes truly linear. Your only task is to move from one map to the next. This is highly disappointing, as the game starts out with such a fresh premise.

A second problem with the fighting is that it is hampered by a cumbersome interface. The fighting is done in real time, much like Baldur's Gate or Icewind Dale, but the enemies move at much greater speeds. Thus, you have no real chance to use ranged weapons, as the enemies close on you after the first shot. Second, because the enemies move so fast, it is hard to click on them. Frequently, you miss, and your character simply walks over to the spot where the enemy was. Inexplicably, the game will not allow you to target an enemy while it is paused.

Lionheart is also terribly buggy. You have a chance to acquire companions during the game, but roughly 10% of the time, having a companion will corrupt your game such that you can't move from one map to another (or, if you can, the next save game may be corrupted). Put together, the collapse of the storyline into meaningless fighting and the bugginess suggest that this game was rushed out the door far too early. It has a lot of promise, but doesn't live up to it.

This game is a trick

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: August 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Lionheart plays like the demo. If you've tried the demo, you know that the combat is a hectic clickfest, with too-fast moving monsters and a poor targeting system. And the latter half of this game is pretty much exclusively combat. Which makes it incredibly unsatisfying.

I call the game a "trick" because of the first half. The first half of the game takes place in Barcelona and another town, and there are interesting characters to talk to, fun quests, and palpable tension among the various factions that control the city (or oppose it). Because the game is set in "real" history (1588) but with a twist (what if magic were real), you find yourself talking to characters such as Shakespeare and Da Vinci, although their personalities and agendas have shifted with the influence of magic. And with the crusades going on, there are some real moral dilemmas: will you support such an oppressive regime, or oppose it and deal with the disadvantages and hostility your character will face? So people who have only played the game a little bit seem to think the game is fine. Then they change their minds after they've played a little more.

The game is built upon an improved version of the SPECIAL engine, which was used for Fallout. So the gameplay is similar, although the combat is real-time, not turn-based. But it just ends up lacking. The real-time combat is a chore, and there is no way to get it back to turn-based. Although you can pause the game, you can't target while paused. Later in the game, the story progression is very linear, with few diplomatic/stealth solutions. The character animations are poorly done, and the interface appears rushed (certain parts are poorly designed or lacking obvious features).

Oh well. If you're willing to buy a game only to play half of it, you'll have fun. If you feel that a game should actually be compeleted, you're in for drudgery and monotonous combat.

Maybe they should have Beta tested it.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: September 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Don't buy this thing until you see a patch. I bought this around 8/28/03. Constant crashes to desktop.

I went to their website to see what the problem was, and I am NOT the only one experiencing this problem. Don't hand them [the money] until they fix it.

Game is worth playing but it's much more efficient when it WORKS.

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.

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