Dragon's Lair 3D Not Worth The Effort

Anonymous Coward writes "While not the best source for gaming information, CNNs Technology section has a review of Ubi Softs Dragon's Lair 3D. Long story short, according to the writer Marc Saltzman, the game isn't worth it. In fact, the opening paragraph says, 'The only thing worse than a lousy video game is when it taints a well-respected, 20-year-old franchise.' One interesting tidbit from the article, the original Dragon's Lair is one of only three video games on display at the Smithsonian. The other two games being Pac-Man and Pong."

Comments

I like Dragon's Lair 3D

[Anonymous Coward]

Althought I got stuck pretty far in to the game, I think DL3D is an excellent game keeping true to the original Dragon's Lair.

DL 3D gives the full range of motion the original Dragon's Lair always lacked. D3 3D also keeps up the cartoonyness and originality from the original.

It's definately worth checking out in my opinion. But as the CNN review's opinion differs, it only proves that everyone has their own opinion...

I've played the crap out of it.

[deathcow]

Mainly because my 3 yr old digs it so much. Lets play Dragons Lair. Lets play Dragons Lair. The kid tells his mom, "You're Daphne, I'm Dirk" and he proceeds to rescue here from me.

I think the game surpasses the original, (given proper allowances for what years they were both created.) Dragons Lair 3D allows Dirk freedom of movement, he can go anywhere basically, jumping, rolling, crouching, sneaking, climbing, swinging his sword, running etc. I find the idea much more enjoyable than a "go left, right left left up left right left to survive" type game.

The graphics arent up with the latest "Unreal 2" type lighting, etc. but who cares. They are 3D accelerated and the textures look good and Dirk himself and the cartoony characters look great.

The frustrating aspect of the game is the level bosses, sometimes they are so hard to figure out that you pretty much "throw down the mouse" and say "screw it, I'm not going to try for a 500th time today to beat the smithey" (HOW do you beat the Smithey?)

Dirk gets cool "essences" along the way from various level bosses, dragon wings to help him fly, spirit to keep him alive, eyes to let him see secret doors.

Overall, I give it an "A", with a "B-" for the level bosses and having to determine each of their secret formulas for whippin their butts.

Re:One game is a 20 year franchise?

[iocat]

It may not be franchise, but given the number of platforms the original has been released on, it's practically it's own industry:

Arcade

Macintosh

PC

straight-DVD

Colecovision

Coleco Adam

Commodore 64

Game Coy Color (!)

3DO

Super Nintendo

Sega CD

various euro-micros

CD-i

I don't know if there's any time since it was released that you haven't been able to purchase some version of Dragon's Lair!