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HORRIBLE

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 14
Date: October 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Dont buy too short unless you are the type of person that likes short games not recommended waste of 50.00 unless your a hardcore dungeons and dragons fan.

Horrors!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: December 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

In my opinion, this game is just simply horrible. Its a Gauntlet rip-off. It put it in...played for about 5 mins, and knew it was a trade-in. Haven't played it since. This game is great if you need something to catch the dust on your shelf.

way too easy!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: April 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

To be honest, I am horrible at playing video games. I usually can't go anywhere close to beating a game without many months of game play and the guide book.

I beat this game in less than 12 hours of game play with no book and no help of any kind.

No challenge at all for experienced gamers!

Fun, but falls short on character and plot.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 30 / 33
Date: November 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

In a nutshell, it's AD&D wiggled into the Gauntlet package.

Pros:
Good multiplayer game if you've several friends with 3-5 days of free time.
Also fun as a single player game.
Lots of powers to buy up and further diversify each character.

Cons:
Despite the diversity of skills/powers that can be bought up, it all boils down to "look at my new trick for doing/avoiding damage."
Linear gameplay with no means of exploring or jumping ahead.
Gets repetitive fast.
Low replay value.

Finish the game in 3-4 days of solid playing.
Zero character development. Total hack n' slash.
There is no actual story/plot beyond "go kill X again." Yawn.
Mini-adventures/quests are equally linear and inconsequential. Double yawn.
Standing around aimlessly while waiting to heal up.
Backstory is so ridiculous as to be laughable.*

* The backstory has the four heroes killing the Bad Guy centuries ago. But as the Bad Guy is dying in this fight, he gets off a spell that 1) kills all the characters and 2) destroys their weapons by shattering their magic into 20 shards which are then dispersed to multiple planes of existence. Hello? If the guy is so powerful as to be able to cast something like that as he's dying, why didn't he do that right when the heroes walked through the door? It's just outright bad story.

So while the game is entertaining most of the time (the first time through), it becomes tedious in places and won't be one that you go back and play time and time again. Lack of any plot/story makes it a combat-only game rather than an engaging epic, which is the heart of the AD&D gaming system.

I'll be selling my copy after I've loaned it to some friends to play.

A Disappointing Diablo Clone

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: July 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I need to preface this with saying that I love D&D, and I love fighting through dungeons. Any game that lets you set the character's armor and weapons makes me happy.

I really liked D&DH when I started playing it, but it became repetitive after the first few hours. I finished it, but quickly traded it in. Read on for the reasons why...

You are one of a band of heroes raised from the dead to fight an evil warrior you defeated years before. His power is legendary, and it is believed that only you (and your friends, if you are playing multiplayer) can defeat this undead hellion. He has, of course, unleashed a pride of monsters upon the various worlds you must travel to find his lair.

Characters
The characters in this game are good, keeping in tune with traditional D&D classes. I played through as the human Warrior (I mean ''Fighter''), my hack-'n'-slash favorite. You can also choose from Rogue, Wizard, or Cleric. Other than the players, the NPCs are well animated, but their character development is pretty two-dimensional.

Bad Guys, Monsters, and [SPOILER]s, Oh My!
Ok, I won't spoil my favorite part of the game for you. Let me just say that some of the monsters that appeared brought back some great PC/earlier console memories. There's nothing better than beating a monster easily that has kicked your backside before, and there is plenty of this in this game. The monsters are well animated, and have decent sound effects. It would be nice if there was additional variation within levels (rather than just among levels), but overall there are is a wide variety to kill.

In other graphic/sound areas: The NPC voices are good, and well cast. The animations for fighting and spell casting are nice, but are not unique to D&DH.

Will This Gather Dust?
I traded it in after finishing it in one week, so it might be gathering dust at the store -- I don't know! I have absolutely no desire to play it again, because the repetitive hacking and slashing became tiresome the FIRST time through. Only about 20 hours worth of playing time, but I only played through as the Fighter (thank goodness)! There is nothing new in this game, but that may not be a bad thing, depending on your taste...

Overall Recommendation:
If you like Diablo, you'll like this.
If you liked playing earlier D&D games, you'll like this.
If you like pushing one button to attack and another, occasionally, to use a health potion, you'll like this.

Baldur's Gate meets Gauntlet

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: January 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If Baldur's Gate and Gauntlet had a baby, this game would be it. It inherits everything about those two games that made them popular. Unfortunately, it also inherits almost all of their flaws as well.

Heroes makes no attempt at being a serious action RPG. There's barely any story to speak of. There is a big bad guy who's gonna conquer the world and it's up to 1-4 player heroes to stop him through several fantastic realms. In this aspect it's just like Gauntlet.

Players of Baldur's Gate will recognize the interface and character abilities as much of it is ripped straight from that game. Some of the abilities are exactly the same. The inventory, the way items work/equip, abilities, and attributes are pretty much a carbon copy of Baldur's Gate. This isn't such a bad thing, and the developers have streamlined things to make them work in a more fast paced environment better without slowing the pace of the game and interfering with your three co-op buddies playing with you. In fact, I think Bioware could take some cues from D&D: Heroes in how it improved the play.

Make no mistake, the whole point of this game is to sit down with some friends and hack your way through various levels and improve your character with upgraded powers and abilities as well as new and more powerful items and equipment. Hardcore stories are meant for a single player experience. So the combining of two such games as Baldur's Gate and Gauntlet seems like a perfect combination for such a concept. However, it seems that developers keep ignoring the king of multiplayer action/RPGs, Diablo. More importantly, they ignore the facets that made that game such an immense success in it's genre.

Heroes is fun. It's even fun playing through by yourself (but you really want to get this to play multi). However, after you play through it, it doesn't hold a great deal of replay value. Diablo introduced things that kept that game replayable for literally years.

1. Randomized levels that are different everytime you play.
2. Seemingly endless variety of magical weapons with near infinate power combinations so there is always something better to find.
3. The ability to take your existing character through the game two more times in succeeding difficulties.
4. Extremely high level cap for your character so that you could play with him for a long time.

It's nearing almost a decade and still virtually no games of this type implement even one of these concepts. Had Heroes included them it could easily have been a five star game. As it is, it isn't a bad game by any means, but it does suffer from blandness. I could live with the fact that it doesn't really introduce anything new, but not capitalizing on winning concepts is a shame.

If you have three buddies who are into these types of games it's worth picking up. It's fun while it lasts.

Fun but missing something

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: May 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First I want to highly recommend this game for you if you want to play it together with friends. My wife and I play it and we have a great time with it. (And of course it's easier with more than one adventurer.) So many games alienate you from your friends and family because you play and they don't. This one encourages team play. I wish more Xbox adventure and RPG games had this feature (Fable with friends would have been the bomb).

I wish there was more customization of your characters. Your choice of adventurer is limited to four: a dwarf cleric, human fighter, elf mage or halfling rogue (I think I remember the rogue correctly). You don't even get to chose gender. No choice of different faces or hair style to personalize your adventurers. No race choices. Nothing. Your appearance does change when you buy new armor, etc. but one of the things I like about D&D type games is getting to feel like your character is a real person and you know them. Modifying his/her appearance is a lot more fun.

I wasn't satisfied with the camera choices. In order to play effectively, a god-like view from the maximum distance is best, but then you don't get to see what the monsters look like. Up close you can enjoy the visuals, but you get a much poorer understanding of your environment. I don't know how I'd change it, but I keep thinking of other games that give you the best of both.

The challenges of the game were fun but not impossible. This isn't Ninja Gaiden! The improvement of your equipment goes at a decent pace, as does your level-up from experience. I'd like to have seen more sould shards. You find these special gems throughout the game and they improve the look and power of your weapon. There are exactly twenty and you need twenty in order to achieve the perfection of your weapon. What this means is, you'll be unable to find some and you'll complete the game with your weapon only 3/4ths upgraded (I only got 50% upgades the first time we completed the game). A little unsatisfying not to ever see it in its final form.

All in all, a lot of fun, especially for you and a friend. I hear the game studio has been closed down recently. I sure hope we see more games like this in the future.

Fun, but not great

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: August 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Overall, this game was fun and enjoyable, although it is a rehash of things already done. Graphics and sound are good but not awe inspiring, gameplay is fun and quick. Once you completed it, there is little reason to do it again. After using multi-player, I found the game a bit easier in single player mode as you didn't have to share experience or gold so the single character gained levels and equipment faster than with multiple characters. This was a great game to rent, but I would never buy it.

Meh.. its fun. Diablo and Gauntlet style.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: February 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If your a fan of Gauntlet for the N64 or PS/PS2 then this is a game for you! Its more fun when you have a full 4 party set and everyone joins in. However you can easily play this alone.

Basically its a mix of Gauntlet style fighting and action, with Diablo style character handling and powerups.

The game has some nice graphics to it and well.. all though its a good step in the right direction. It was not what I was expecting.

Was kinda hoping for a style closer to the old D&D games for the PC more customizing and so..

Sad that you cant customize your character or the stats of them to make it FEEL more your own or that your in a D&D game.

As I said, its more like Gauntlet, where you choose one character to be and you build it up with whatever else on your own.

Being that, I dont know too much about replay value, however its a fun mindless game when your bored or just want to play in a group or party. But alone, you probably will get bored.

For parents: This is a good game to buy if you have 2 kids or more and want them to play at the same time. Good type of game for them to play since its not split screen gaming or so.

good, but limited

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: October 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I finished this game in three days... so there is not a lot to it. It is a real hack and slash type game, not a lot of character development in this one... it's the kind of game where your thumb gets sore. The view of your character would sometimes get obscured by walls, trees, you name-it, so that could be a bit annoying. The graphics are good, the sound is great, the effects are cool. You have an "ancestoral weapon", so you are not really encouraged to try others. I only did the one player game, so maybe the Xbox live aspect might make it a better game.

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