The graphics, while not as good as DA, could still pass as the Baldur's Gate game half of the time. The game plays from the same overhead perspective (albeit with a zoom function), the characters lay into enemies in the same fashion, the levels are littered with chests and some of the characters' powers are even the same. Are you going to have your cleric hang back, heal and only do the odd bit of fighting? Or will you give him powers that lean more towards some of Heroes' deadly finishing moves? Will your wizard play it safe, or will she get her hands dirty in the thick of the action? Will your halfling get over her self-consciousness and realise size doesn't matter?Ī quick glance at Heroes, and you'd be forgiven for thinking it was actually Dark Alliance.
As you'd expect, each of these characters plays quite differently, and most of the fun revolves around how you and up to three friends decide to handle them. These heroes are a human warrior, a dwarven cleric, an elven sorcerer and a halfling rogue. Instead, it's the 'tale' of four heroes who rise from the dead to defeat the evil they defeated 150 years previously. We wish we could say it was about diseased giraffes taking over a Japanese mining corporation or something, but it's not. So while anyone looking for a roughly enjoyable multiplayer hackandslash might find comfort in Heroes, everyone else might as well wait for DA2 and, perhaps, Norrath. The problem is that, unlike Dark Alliance, is doesn't do enough to attract the kind of gamers who otherwise might not enjoy roaming through swamps hacking up goblins. It has clearly been designed to appease fans of the Baldur's Gate game, and to this effect it might well have succeeded. It brings very little to the torture table and pulls its punches like a drunken ogre. It's a straight clone of Dark Alliance and makes no orc bones about it. However, Dungeons & Dragons Heroes ensures that while the crown remains firmly on DA's head, there is competition nonetheless. In fact, so bad has the drought been that were it not for the impending release of Champions of Norrath, Brotherhood of Steel and the subject of this very review, come February Dark Alliance 2 would have been its predecessor's only real competition.
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The Hunter series might be fun, but it's not to everyone's taste. Yet despite the critical and commercial success of Dark Alliance, there hasn't been a single contender for its crown since the day it was released. blimey, not since Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance!"Īnd that's a bit sad really, because co-operative hackandslash gaming is something we should never really be without. The games adapt the first four modules of the Dragonlance campaign setting.When was the last time you had a good slash with someone, eh? How long has it been since you hacked up with a friend? The answer to this is probably: "Last Saturday night actually," but it could also be "God, not since. Gold - except for Strategic Simulations’s War of the Lance - and include the first licenced video game adaptations of Dungeons & Dragons. The party-based RPGs were developed by U.S. Includes four titles: Heroes of the Lance (1988), Dragons of the Flame (1989), War of the Lance (1989), and Shadow Sorcerer (1991). Silver Box Classics( Steam / GOG.com - $9.99 with 15% launch discount).An action RPG where players fight through twenty-five dungeons attempting to take down an escaped evil Necromancer. DeathKeep( Steam / GOG.com - $5.99 with 15% launch discount)ĭeveloped by Lion Entertainment and originally released for 3DO in 1995.An RPG wargame where players control the ruler of a fledging kingdom and seek to take over their neighbours with real-time combat and a computer-controlled Dungeon Master. Fantasy Empires( Steam / GOG.com - $9.99 with 15% launch discount)ĭeveloped by Silicon Knights and originally released for DOS in 1993.Set in the Spelljammer campaign setting, players captain their own ship into Realmspace with first-person flight combat and tactical party combat. Spelljammer: Pirates of Realmspace( Steam / GOG.com - $9.99 with 15% launch discount)ĭeveloped by Cybertech and originally released for DOS in 1992.A first-person action flight combat title set in the Dragonlance setting. DragonStrike( Steam / GOG.com - $5.99 with 15% launch discount)ĭeveloped by Westwood and originally released for Amiga, C64, DOS in 1990.The titles now available are DragonStrike, Spelljammer: Pirates of Realmspace, Fantasy Empires, DeathKeep, and the four-game Silver Box Classics bundle:
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Boutique publisher SNEG has released a group of classic Dungeons & Dragons titles for PC on Steam and GOG.com.
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