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- Legacy, the -
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The majority of RPG's is
set in ancient or fantasy world so it's always refreshing to see one that
plays out in modern (more or less) times. In the legacy you play as the
heir of Winthrop manor and seeing that the person who owned it has passed
away you go out to check it out. However things aren't well in the house
because you find clues to demons and other strange events prior to the death
of your relative. Now you must finish his work and defeat whatever evil
has infested the house before it is too late.
You start the game by choosing the person you are to play. There are lots
of different characters to choose from ranging from a military man who is
physically very strong to an older woman who can cast spells to aid her.
Each one has preset statistics but you can also devide the points among
the many talents that you can have. There are three main categories on which
you can spend points: strength, dexterity and knowledge. Strength should
be fairly obvious, dexteriy if mostly used for long range combat and dodging
attacks and knowledge is important for spellcasting and healing. The different
stats allow characters to take different approaches to problems as a stong
person can try to knock down a door while someone else can pick the lock.
After you select a character you start at inside the house where the front
door is now locked and you have to explore the house to get clues and find
out find out what has happened. The interface is done with a window system
and you can even resize the windows to suit you preferences. Moving around
is easily done with either the mouse or the keyboard and your inventory
is limited to what you can carry in your hands four small slots. You can
find a briefcase later in which you can carry more equipment but unfortunately
this also limits you to using one hand for combat and such. The view of
the mansion is displayed with a rendered 3D look but there is very little
animation apart from the monsters. There is a handy automap that will draw
out a map for areas you have already visited. From here on you are on your
own and you must fight your way across several levels to stop the demons
from investing the house.
The legacy is quite a fun RPG but unfortunately it suffers from several
problems. First off the inventory systems is really annoying and the fact
that you can carry so little equipment and must carry the bag in which you
hold items in your hand also limits you to using one hand in combat. Also
the rest sytems is really annoying as you can only rest up in special rooms
marked with a protective symbol, this means that you will most likely die
unless you know where to find this room. Other than this though the game
is still enjoyable and definately worth checking out.
Overal rating: 8/10
Erde Kaiser
Legacy, the was released for one systems here are some notes:
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Released
in 1993.
Game has been tested but not completed on a DOS PC.
This doesn't work under Windows 2000 or XP (not sure) because it needs
an EMS driver, but you can use dosbox as it works ok but a bit slowish. |
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Date added |
Sep-09-2005 20:36 |
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Legacy, the |
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Developer |
Microprose
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Publisher |
Microprose
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First released |
1993 |
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Genre |
RPG
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Manual |
No manual available
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Solve / Docs |
No solve available
Get starters guide here
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