Heroes of the Lance

Heroes of the Lance takes the beloved fantasy setting and turns it into a side-scrolling adventure that is as ambitious as it is occasionally frustrating. Controlling a party of heroes sounds great on paper, and often feels great in practice, until things get a bit too chaotic. The game captures the spirit of its source material, even if the execution can be uneven. There is a certain nostalgia in its design, a reminder of a time when experimentation was more common than perfection. It is not always smooth, but it is certainly memorable.

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Rating: 3.94 / 5.00 (33 votes)

DOS

Genres:

action-adventure

Released in:

1989

Publisher:

SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Developer:

U.S. Gold

Designers:

Jeff Groteboer, George MacDonald

Tags:

fantasy, party-based, side-scroller, Dungeons & Dragons

Game modes:

single-player

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Heroes of the Lance review

"The characters and animation are excellent. The background scenery is atmospheric, but it's also rather dull. these may be ruins but they could have made them a bit more colorful. during fights you get good sound effects - "ughs" and "arrghs". There's not much else apart from that though. The only annoying thing you'll find is that the game comes on three disks, so a certain amunt of swapping is required. Fortunately this is mostly between games rather than during them." - ACE magazine

Retro gamer collector's corner:

The game box's cover features a painting by artist Jeff Easley, also used as the front cover to Richard A. Knaak's 1988 Dragonlance novel "The Legend of Huma".

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