Legendary

by Gamecock Media Group

Product Features

• A fantasy shooter set in an unprepared, modern world
• A massive, blockbuster movie experience - society collapses around you as man and machine take on the beasts of legend in a spectacular battle
• Awe-inspiring fire-fights where high-caliber ordinance meets beak, talon, fang and claw
• Dynamic environments crumble around you as you and your enemies literally tear a living, breathing environment apart in your battle to stay alive
• Devastation is realized on an unprecendented scale. See London burn to the ground and witness New York torn apart through spectacular supernatural destruction

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0012S3X2Q
• Item Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Release Date: November 18, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,947 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: PC

Legendary is a first person shooter for PC and next-generation consoles. Developed by Spark Unlimited, Legendary tells the story of a thief – Charles Deckard - who is duped into stealing the mythical Pandora’s Box. Like Pandora before him, he cannot resist the temptation of finding out what’s inside. By opening the fabled device, he unleashes hordes of creatures thought to be merely the imaginings of our ancestors. However, murderous werewolves, unstoppable gryphons and other creatures of ancient lore prove all too real as they wreak havoc across an unprepared modern world.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Game!!!!, January 20, 2009

By 

eringo "eringo" (metairie,la) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Legendary (DVD-ROM)

This game was better than what I expected.I have been wanting this game after I first seen the trailer for it a while back.I did not see too many good reviews about the game.So I waited played the demo. which then made me purchased the full version.If you like Half Life,Painkiller games and the Underworld movies you will like this game.If you have a good video card and crank the resolution up the game has some nice visuals and graphics.The only bad pick about the game and why it did not get a full set of stars is the save system.It uses check points and you can only start from the last saved check point.I wish game creators would get away from this type of save system and just let you save your game whenever you need to.If you don't mind that minor flaw about the save game system pick this one up and have fun blasting werewolves and other demon creatures.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Fun Game, December 13, 2008

By 

Justin A. Silvers - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Legendary (DVD-ROM)

Although i agree with one other gentleman on here, where he says this game
doesn't really justify $50, i still think this game is pretty fun.

The graphics are powered by the unreal engine, and i personally think they look pretty good, even running on medium settings. I also find the story to be interesting and different.

I also love the look of mass chaos in the game, makes it seem like everything is falling apart.

So all in all i think it is a good game worth playing. I would wait till the price drops a little bit, then pick it up

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Average Game nothing new but not horrible, meh!, November 22, 2008

By 

AeroEngineer (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Legendary (DVD-ROM)

This game doesn't really do much to stick out, its graphics are standard second tier, like Fall of Liberty, but not as bad as the other reviewer claims; HL2's graphics are still better than 90% of current games so there's no comparison there but I'm positive they are better than HL1's with some genuinely cool looking creatures such as a giant made out of different objects like cars, fire hydrants and other things in a busy NY street.

Story: Well this is somewhat muddled centering around the mythical Pandora's Box opened in the modern world and the consequences that ensue. You can read the summary of it elsewhere but I didn't find it all that engaging or interesting, usual get framed stuff and try to get out of it. There seem to be mythical bad guys scattered in this game like gryphons and others that seem just thrown in. Of course you have your buddy on the radio keeping you updated with story info and other things. You also have standard PDA that you can get info and objectives from as well as picking up dropped data scattered in the levels, I haven't really used it though.

Gameplay: This is a no surprises type of shooter with the occasional environmental puzzle mixed in to get to your next objective think HL2 but not as sophisticated. This seems to have a sort of Bioshock-esque infected hand weapon that you get from grabbing PB in the first scene and you use this to fight the mythical bad guys as well as the human bad guys. I've played the first level and you use it and recharge it by killing the baddies and getting their energy or something like that, the discharge from your hand doesn't go very far but it is used to stun the baddies and then you finish them off with your other weapon, either a melee axe or a firearm, you can also carry molotovs/grenades. I'm not sure if there is an upgrade system to this like in Bioshock. The guns are pretty standard fair in both sound and look. You can find where you are supposed to go next by pressing the Q button and it will popup. You seem to be an expert at using a bypass to get past electronically locked doors of all kinds simply by using the E button to pop open the keypad and reroute power and it seems most doors are like this. Also you use E to turn valves and do other general actions, again pretty standard. Nothing hugely wrong though.

Graphics: Like I said these are generally second tier level with the some things being better than average. I didn't find the environments anything that special, the humans are not very good even in the cutscenes and the bad guys are nothing special either. Most of the textures are bland and not well detailed, but they are not horrible either. I wouldn't say the pics shown here are really that representative of the actual in game play, but almost none in a sales brochure are for any game.The water is not the type of advanced level you see in a Crysis or the latest Tomb Raider and neither is the fire. I don't think there is any atmospheric fog or any of that type of thing in this game. Again it's pretty unamazing stuff that could be said to be a step up from Far Cry 1's or Fall of Liberty but it's hard to compare a game that's colors are dark to a game that has bright colors like FC's. Some of it seems like an afterthought such as the museum statues are pretty bland and not detailed much and the cars are about the same way as well as the usual bland drums and boxes scattered about.

Sound: This was also par for the course, not really that immersive but the rock music let's you know that this is mostly a run and gun action game and is fast paced most of the time. I didn't find the music too much to handle though and it's not always blaring just when you are in an action heavy sequence like COD4's rock music gave you that urgent feeling. The weapons are all pretty generic sounding to me.

Value: Again I've only played through the first level that takes place in the museum, the streets, and the subway so I can't say how long this is. This game like many others seems like they just wanted to put something out there knowing that it was nothing special but it was cheap to produce so they didn't need to do too much to turn a profit. This game is already lost in the jungle of many games coming out and probably will stay there. Based on the unremarkableness of this game it's of course not worth it, it's worth twenty-five to thirty dollars brand new or around there. For the full fifty bucks or less you can get an exceptional game like Deadspace, COD, Gears of War, Brothers in arms, Crysis, Tomb Raider Underworld, HL2 and others.

If you want a standard FPS with nothing really innovative but a decent if uninspiring play through this would probably work. Again this shouldn't be considered at anything above thirty bucks brand new but you could probably wait a month and get it for even less than that. There don't seem to be any major flaws in the game and it does entertain but it's not a top tier game in any sense, I can't see playing this through more than once and there are so many excellent games both new and not new that you could pass this by and not miss much.

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