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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.

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.

May be the best RPGs I've ever played...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Think this might be the best RPG I've ever played... Even over Baldur's Gate, Temple of Elemental Evil, and Diablo... Mechanics are good, nice mix of action and role-play, story is REALLY good, challenging, sometimes very challenging, interesting yet easy to follow, side-quests aren't annoying, lots of chioces but not too many, role-playing elements like character generation, skills, level-up choices, and the magic-to-muscle balance all offer good variety and complexity, without being overly-complicated... Very fun and compelling game.

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.

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.

I have enjoyed this game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I knew this product was Black Isle, so I was hoping it was on the same level as the Fallout series. I was not disappointed.

This game is not a straight dungeon crawl. There are a multitude of quests to go on, and a lot of them involve running back and forth to places you have already been. (I personally hate that!)

I think this may be more combat oriented than Fallout, and there isn't that dreaded timeline you have to beat. You simply get a quest, and accomplish it.

Also, unlike Fallout, this game doesn't appear to have a turned based mode. It is live, which is fine, because that enforces more tactics, while still allowing you to function easily.

I'm almost done with it, and I am looking forward to loading it on the wife's computer, so we can try multiplayer. A solid game.

The Legacy of the Crusader. . .

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: September 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

"Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader" is a good, if not quite great, role-playing game that may not live up to the usual standards of Black Isle Studios, but regardless it's yet another deep and vastly entertaining jewel in the company's sparkling crown.

The game casts you as the scion of King Richard the Lionhearted in an alternate reality setup which blends magic and historic fact into an interesting, and refreshingly unique, world. It assumes that the events immediately following the Crusades caused a disjunction in time and space, and magical spirits and creatures were unleashed upon the Medieval world. Naturally, it is your job to defeat a great evil (or become a great evil if you prefer), and you begin this endeavor by joining one of four factions that actually determine how the first portion of the game plays out. You can ally yourselves with the Inquisition (who seek out the world's magic-tainted "heretics" and purify them through pain or death), the Knights Templar (who seek to cleanse the world of evil magics), the Wielders (who embrace magic and employ it in secrecy beneath the searching eyes of the Inquisition), or the Dark Wielders (who are much like their good counterparts, but seek instead of acceptance the power to rule the world and remake it as they see fit). Even though the game world can still feel a little bit Dungeons & Dragon-ish, it remains exceptional enough to make a lasting impression. Expect to bump into all kinds of historic figures, including Galileo and Leonardo Da Vinci, to name but a few.

Yes, the world is quite interesting, but the storyline doesn't quite live up to that same pervading quality. Even so, you'll find a lot to do in this game apart from the main campaign. Hardcore RPGers rejoice - you will get your money's worth out of "Lionheart." Like many games of its type, it also packs in a high replay value, since there are multiple beginning and endings. If you take up with the Dark Wielders and choose a darker path through the game, the finale will reflect that - and so will the quests your faction requires you to perform. Early on in the game, the Inquisition may want you to remove the magical taint from the Barcelona Temple District, while the Wielders require you to construct a magical staff to prove your worth. "Lionheart" does not force your hand, but offers you choices instead.

Thankfully, "Lionheart" does away with the stereotypical roleplaying class system. You will choose your character's race and gender, and the rest you decide through tweaking your statistics, your strengths and abilities. Do you want to be a fighter and a wielder of magic? Go ahead, nothing is stopping you. It's a delightful change of pace.

Unfortunately, "Lionheart" has its share of problems, and the worst of those problems is its interface, which takes a lot of getting used to - and even then it's more trouble than it should be. Combat can be mildly engaging, but generally becomes tedious, and isn't all that exciting to witness. The game's production values are a mixed bag as well. On the one hand, it has a beautiful orchestral soundtrack, but repetition of the particular pieces can become monotonous. Some of the game's sound effects do their job nicely, while most of your opponents will do their best to annoy you with their repetitive shrieks and cries. The graphics are crisp and clear, and the game's environments are quite attractive. The game's characters, however, could have benefited from more detail, and they are generally quite badly animated - and they're not always smart either. I once released magic-infused "heretics" from the Inquisition dungeons in plain view of Inquisitor guardsmen who simply looked on dumbly. They did not make any attempts to thwart my rescue efforts, and when I spoke to them after the fact they were very polite and apparently oblivious to my rebellion. That kind of thing can get in the way of the suspension of disbelief, it goes without saying. Oh, yes, and brace yourself for an anti-climactic finale - and I don't just mean the end game sequence, I mean the end game all together. What begins as a genuinely deep and compelling RPG degenerates into a mindless hack-and-slash dungeon crawl with very little story to propel it. And yes, the end game sequence is just plain bad, almost insulting when you've poured so many hours into the game. When will developers realize that endings ARE important to a game's overall level of satisfaction?!

Ultimately, I liked "Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader," and I would recommend it to any fan of its respective genre with only a few reservations. The game offers you a wealth of roleplaying options and flows at a decent clip. It certainly has its flaws, but none of them are crippling, and its virtues are plentiful.

Final Score: C+ (four stars on a curve)

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.

Whatever they say........

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: May 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When you play a RPG game, what matter mostly is a really good story. LionHeart has one of the best. Sure game is kind of slow 'cause the game is not only "hack and slash" all the time. If you are interested and History and Fantasy this the game for you. You will have the chance to meet one the greatest personalities in History like: Leonardo DaVinci, Miguel de Cervantes, Hernan Cortez, Nostradamus, to name a few. Game has really good Graphics, game control is easy to learn.

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