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Dragon's Lair III Announcement and Demo
An article on Blue's News brings the happy news that a third game in the Dragon's Lair franchise is in the works. There are screens, a press release, and a demo of the game to be had. From the press release: "Dirk the Daring, the brave yet bumbling knight, is ready to venture back into the Lair in this adventure! The Evil Wizard Mordroc has again kidnapped the fair Princess Daphne and Dirk is her only hope. Save the princess, defeat Mordroc, and watch out for the treachery that lies at every step!" Good to know the genre hasn't changed since the last game.
There seems to be no mention of Don Bluth's involvement in the game. It seems to be a DVD Video disk with no platform specific code written for it. So, the big question is how good will the story and animation be without Don Bluth???
Here's what it is: video captures of somebody playing the Dragon's Lair 3D game from 2002 (which was a Tomb Raider style game) which are then used in the same manner as the animations in the original Dragon's Lair game - namely, you make a decision, and based on that decision, a movie plays which either shows you dying or moving toward another decision point.
You can get the PC version of "Dragon's Lair 3D" for about 7 bucks used on Amazon. The game got poor reviews and I think this must be part of an effort to recoup some $$$. (Personally, I loved "Dragon's Lair 3D", but I was among the few.)
"Dragon's Lair 3" is basically "Dragon's Lair 3D" without the latter's main selling point - being able to fully control the character and move around in three dimensions.