Lionheart is an ugly and poorly put together RPG that is not fun in any way.
User Rating: 4.2 | Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader PC
Gamespot's review does not quite describe what a terrible game this is. Lionheart has a very interesting premise, and it uses a very cool roleplaying system, but it is a poor game in every aspect. How you could take such a cool concept and make it into such a crappy game is beyond me. There is not one thing that "Lionheart" gets right. For starters, this game looks awful. Every screen is is covered in greys or browns, like all of Europe was just buried in some kind of volcanic eruption. The various areas in this game just look repetitive and abysmal. Your character, along with all of the game's NPC's, look drab and undetailed, and they move with herky-jerky motion. But gameplay is where this game really, really stinks. By and large, it is a terrible dungeon crawl with a bad combat system. The SPECIAL system used for Fallout and Fallout 2 was excellent, but here it is simply awful. Everywhere it's the same. A monster from offscreen yells out "rawwwrrrrr" and rushes at you with light speed and attacks you. It's pointless to be an archer or much of a spell caster, since you don't have any time to use those abilities, and they are largely useless anyways. Simply put, Lionheart is a very poorly balanced RPG. There was absolutely no imagination put into the monsters for this game. Most of them cut you down to only 10% of your health, so after every battle, you have to sit and wait for 10 minutes while you regain your health before you move on. Needless to say, it's quite boring. The interface for this game stinks too. The bottom portion of it takes up more than a quarter of the screen, but it always manages to feel functionally inadequate. There are only 7 hotkeys for abilites -- only 7. Compare than with 12 for Divine Divinity or 36 for Neverwinter Nights, and you have a good idea for how far behind it is. Add on top of that, you cannot pause the game to issue an attack order. Lionheart is a game that is totally devoid of imagination and inexcusably bad. Advertising this game as using the Fallout SPECIAL system is an insult to everyone that has ever played that game. This is neither a good RPG, nor is it a good hack-and-slash dungeon crawl. Other than a handful of decent voice actors, I can find no redeeming qualities for this game.
