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Review of New Legends (Edited from Preview)

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 15 / 20
Date: December 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

New legends, like Halo, was originally was announced for the PC. Microsoft has since made this an XboX exclusive. This game is an Action/Adventure game with a twist of 3-D fighting. Your main character must destroy the evil that is plaguing the lands. Through out your adventure you will pick up weapons, mostly meelee weapons. You can dual wield (means use 2 weapons at a time) weapons, but some requires you to use 2 hands like axes and bow. Weapons and combinations will be associated with different combos, but there will be six main weapons you must get to progress in the game which will be from 6 warlords you must defeat. The enemies seem to spawn constantly so you will not run out of things to kill.

Having been just released, New legends might be a new game but
it will remind you of old school gaming. Why? It is simple yet
addicting. The graphics won't impress you, it doesn't take full advantage of XboX's potential and there is not excuse for it. The gameplay is what will make you stick to your TV, the variety of
weapons available and combos are just too many and the controls is quite easy. One thing you have to keep in mind is that however
many times you save, once you die you will restart that level,
one major flaw that will irritate you.

New legends is a good game, but its replayabity is questionable.
There are no modes or gametype you can choose, and no multiplayer
whatsoever. Might be an advisable rental. The game roughly is 5-7 hours to finish.

Graphics and sounds = 2/5
Gameplay = 4/5
Replayabilty = 1/5

Outstanding gameplay makes it very much worthwhile

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: March 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

New Legends is a very good game that delivers excellent GAMEPLAY. The play control is very tight. The action is fast and furious. I love the martial arts moves. It truly is like a Hong Kong movie. There is a lot of variety since there are so many weapons and different combos. Swords, bows, guns, crossbows, axes, grappling hooks, and more. There are lots of cool moves to execute. The enemies charge at you and you can go to town on them. The frame rate is really good and the gameplay is super tight. It's really impressive.

New Legends also delivers cool VISUALS. I see people complaining about the graphics here. I didn't have a problem with them. I thought they were good. I liked the future retro/science-fantasy visuals. A nice mix of ancient China with fantasy and also sci-fi. You don't get this original of a look that often. Also, this game actually has movie scenes. While not Final Fantasy caliber, it's nice to see a game on the Box with movies, since most don't...this game is not 5-7 hours long. It is definitely longer. It took me a while to beat it. It's at least 10 hours, possibly longer. There are a lot of stages. There must've been at least 20 stages here.

CHALLENGE is pretty good. Not impossible, not a joke either.
There are some minor puzzles but the emphasis is on the action. There are enough places to get energy, which is good. Oh, and you CAN defend yourself in this game. I have no clue what one reviewer below me is talking about.

While I really like the game, it is not without its FLAWS:
1. If you die at any point, you must start the entire stage over. This is bad. Thankfully I didn't die so often.
2. You can't save whenever you want, even though it looks like you can. You also must manually save on each stage or else you will do the old stage over again. This is stupid.
3. The game is very annoying at first. Stick with it. I hated the first hour or so but then it gets much better once you figure it out.
4. The music is good but it gets repetitive. There aren't enough tracks. Plus there's no special tracks for bosses. On the plus side, the sound effects are great.

That's about it. I recommend the game to fans of action/adventure. Not a perfect game, to be sure...
One of the better games I've played on X-Box so far.

Really fun but could have been better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: February 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The game is quite enjoyable with all the charaters who help you through your mision, and the story is engaging. The best part of the game is the fighting. As you progress through the game you get more weapons that each have a multitiude of combinations and even more combinations when you combine various weapons. The enemies also fight well and react well to how you fight them. I would have given the game more stars except for a few things, The graphics are pretty poor for the x-box, the camera gets weird in tight spaces, the characters who are susposed to be helping you don't do a whole lot to help you, and finally there are glitches such as in certain areas my character would fall through the floor of bridges and die for no apparent reason and sometimes when I am fighting my character goes off in a direction that I don't want him to go. All in all I would say the pros out weigh the cons and anyone who likes a great fighting game with a good story should get New Legends.

Quite frustrating

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: October 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The lack of a story line, confusing names, bad voice acting, and so-so graphics are the least of this game's problems. The worst aspect is the poor gameplay.

1) This has to be the worst of the worst: when you are hit, it takes 2-5 seconds to recover, during which time you cannot fight but will continue to take hits and damage from your enemies. It doesn't matter how hard you hit any buttons. Your character will spin for a few seconds and bleed away. And get this: when you hit an enemy, he doesn't suffer from this problem! So if you play this game, be prepared to die many unnecessary deaths.

2) While there's an impressive list of weapons in the game, many are very poorly implemented. Get a machine gun or shot gun, and you'll find that you can't really aim accurately. Sometimes... even when you aim and fire at the enemy, he doesn't suffer any damage! I don't know if this is a bug, or just another way for some sadistic programmer to make a gamer's life miserable.

3) Enemies are strong. As mentioned before, they don't get immobilized temporarily like your character does, and they are really tough... I'm talking about the non-bosses! And there's no difficulty option in this game.

4) Even though you can access the save screen at any time during the game, it doesn't really save the game at the point you think you are saving. Instead, when you load the game, it starts from the beginning of the mission! And what exactly constitutes a savable mission is also confusing.

In short, this is a terrible game. There's some fun factor in it, that's why I give it 2 stars instead of 1. But I truly think it'll take a few years off your lifespan because of its high degree of frustration.

New Legends

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I just got New Legends and I think it is one of the best games for Xbox (HALO is God). First of all, it's storyline isn't bad. The evil Xao Gon is trying to take over China and it's up to you, Sun Soo (not the best name) to save it by battling Xao Gon's army and defating the 5 generals (Xao Gon's half demon offspring). I like the concept of futeristic weapons like flechette gun and tank puncher (my favorite) meets historc blades and staffs like tiger claws, Soo blades, and the infinity staff. The cool thing about this game is you can wield two weopons at once (unless it's double handed). Every time you beat a general, you recieve a "Forbidden Blade of Heaven" like the axe hammer, triple wind, or chaos spear. You encounter different allies throughout the game that can help you out. The music is kind of annoying because it's some old Chinese guy singing very nasal Chinese lyrics. New Legends has a save feature which is very useful. The graphics aren't bad at least near your character. The characters (including allies and all enemies) probably have the best. Every thing else is well... so so. Not the best Xbox can do. AI is medioker (I could never spell that). If your allies see a huge band of difficult enemies coming, they would really just stand there until the bad guys were in range (either bad AI or they were just brave...). Also, your friends can't die if that effects that in any way.

-PROS-

-Good storyline
-Cool futeristic and historic weapons
-Good graphics around the main character
-You can use two weapons at a time

-CONS-

-N64 level graphics everywhere else
-Annoying music (in my opinion)
-The main bad guy has a really bad taste in clothing

If you like FPS games with OK graphics, New Legends is the game for you.

Great Gameplay, Horrible Graphics

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: March 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

New Legends is the type of game that could have been awesome for the Xbox, but ends up lacking in several key areas. The game has an interesting story and a very neat combat system, but the graphics are terrible.

The storyline keeps you interested, as you try and regain your kingdom in China. At first, things are a little confusing because of the way you view things. This can hurt some because you basically are thrust right into the game without a tutorial. But after awhile, things get easier and you start to progress with ease.

The game is your basic hack and slash third person game with the goal to kill your enemies and get to the end of the level. Occasionally, you have to complete tasks, like planting bombs or opening gates, but these are straightforward and usually easy to do. The game does get tougher later and figuring out how to complete certain levels can take a long time.

You can use up to two weapons at once, either one of two kinds of two of the same, and they can do some interesting combos. There is a lot to choose from, as well, from swords to bows to guns to other special weapons you get from beating regular enemies and bosses. The variation allows you to pick and choose what weapon is right for you, which is a plus.

What makes this game fun is working your way through some pretty huge levels. Each level looks different and has different characteristics, which is fun. Also, you have help from allies in most of the levels, although they tend to go off on their own, leaving you to dispatch the bad guys, which isn't hard.

That leads me to my next point. While I like facing easy enemies, the lack of variety can make fighting almost seem like a chore. There are only basically a few types of enemies and, while they vary what weapon they have, each is roughly the same. It gets to the point where you wonder if the developers developed the enemies last, although the bosses are very cool and present their own unique challenges.

The main problem with this game comes from the graphics. It looks like a Playstation game. That's the original Playstation, not the Playstation 2. Characters, for the most part, are blocky, as are the foregrounds. The motions are also very choppy and not at all smooth. There is also framerate slowdown like you wouldn't believe in certain parts of the game.

Another problem is that there are times when the gameplay stops momentarily to restart the music, which isn't worth restarting for the most part. Also, in order to check your goals when they change, you have to pause the game, which can get annoying. Finally, the camera angles swing around enough to make you seasick. It also can make fighting extremely difficult.

Overall, this is one of those "rent before you buy" games. Some people can look past the surface and see the great gameplay elements at the heart of New Legends. Others won't be able to look past the poor graphics.

New Legends - Great gameplay, substandard graphics

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

New Legends has gotten poor reviews from numerous sites due to its graphics, which are not up to par with other XBOX titles. This game, however, offers outstanding gameplay which fans of old school beat-em-ups like Final Fight will love. This game was developed by Infinite Machine, headed by the designer of the original Jedi Knight. Not surprisingly, this game has a lot in common with LucasArts' Obi-Wan, which happens to use the Jedi Knight engine. It has the same fun mission based kill-everyone-in-sight 3rd-person gameplay, but instead of wielding a lightsaber, you wield numerous weapons of Eastern theme, ranging from samurai swords to razor claws to guns. Being that you can hold one weapon in each hand, you can either spin around, slicing opponents as you go, or shoot opponents with a gun while at the same time hitting them with a sword attack from your other hand; there are two attack buttons, one for each hand. Though the action in the game is very repetitive (like any beat-em-up), the levels are diverse and a blast to play through. The graphics in this game are better than Obi-Wan, but more on the level of Dreamcast than XBOX. In addition, you also see sub-30fps framerates at points, which also detracts from the graphics. All in all, a worthwhile purchase due to its addictive gameplay, as long as you can get over the graphics.

awful just awful

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

new legends was just a bad game eveything about this game is horrible lets just list the pros/cons

(PROS)
the game was cheap

(CONS)

bad voice acting
horrible story plot
bad martial arts fighting

THE BEST GAME EVER!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 22
Date: January 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

At first I was alittle afraid to buy the game. I had never played it before. BUT, IT IS AWESOME! It is never boring. Their is always action. It's everthing you look for in a video game and more. You never want to stop playing. This game is better to buy since it is so long and so much fun. The big variety of weapons and the cool and helpful characters makes this game one of the best of Xbox's creations yet!

If more time,thought,energy put into it it would be the best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This must be one of the finest martial arts games I have yet to play. As I said in my title if more time, thought, and energy was put into this game it defintley would of been one of the best! The story is very solid and so is the fighting, allies, characters, etc. The story is- In the future demon offspring and there armys have taken over all of China except for one kingdom. Sun Soo(the main character)is the son to the leader of that one kindgon. Once the kingdom is taken over and his father killed sun soo is sent to a prison. There Mongolian rebels invade the prison and free him. Thats when the serious gameplay starts to take place. Sun Soo must defeat Zow Gon(the boss of the whole game) but to do that he has to kill Zow Gons 5 demon offspring(and go through hundreds of bad guys to do that!!)and get their 5 forbbiden blades.........that right there is probaly one of the best plots I have ever heard of in any game! As I said to beat the 5 demons you have to go through many, many bad guys and trust me after awhile they get very hard! And they seem to change in every level. speaking of levels the levels in this game range very much. One of the levels takes place in his dream! But dont worry cause through all these levels youll have many allies helping you ranging from- prisioners, rebels, soldiers, snipers, half demons, dragons, peacemakers, armys, etc. And while you are playing youll be kicking @ss with many different weopons like swords(many different kinds), sticks(many different kinds), wrenches, guns(many different kinds), etc, etc, etc, etc!! Now you say after all these positive things why did it get such low reviews? well as I said all the way in the beggining the makers didnt spend as much time on this game as needed. with N64/dreamcast type graphics and other things like that is why. So if you can look through that and see the excellent storyline, characters, fighting, bosses, weopons,etc then youll be opened up to a whole new exciting game!

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