Legion: The Legend of Excalibur

by Midway Entertainment

Product Features

• A mix of real-time strategy (RTS) and role-playing game
• Follows the adventures of Arthur and Lancelot
• Variety of missions
• Multiple paths
• Your character gains more skills and leadership ability

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005NCA8
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: June 26, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,556 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #55 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Strategy
  • #88 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Role-Playing

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Legion: The Legend of Excalibur is a large-scale fantasy adventure that allows players to live the epic legend of King Arthur and the mystical sword Excalibur. It is an innovative mixture of role-playing, strategy, and action. Players take direct control of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, and lead legions of knights as they confront the evil forces of Morgan le Fay in dynamic battlefield environments. With more than 12 characters to control and 14 in-depth missions to accomplish, Legion offers both intense individual action and the depth of combat familiar to fans of real-time strategy.

Product Description

Delivering an intense real-time strategy experience to the PlayStation 2, Legion: The Legend of Excalibur combines sword and sorcery action with rich story and character advancement. Developed by the former Command & Conquer creators at 7 Studios, Legion retells the story of King Arthur through 13 in-depth missions across a myriad of different landscapes. Each stage boasts primary and secondary objectives in addition to more than 100 different kinds of weapons, armor, and items to fight with. Magic using players can even wield in upwards of 20 different spells and veteran strategists can pit their wits against an advanced AI system that was more than three years in the making.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars GREAT GAME WITH A MINOR FLAW, July 5, 2002

By 

Dannyro "dannyro" (Drexel Hill, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Legion: The Legend of Excalibur (Video Game)

First off I love the Arthurian legend, so this game appealed to me before I started playing it. The graphics are nice, and the strategy in the game is very good. Mission 2 is hard at first, but when you finally master it it becomes much easier. I did get frustrated at first but as I played more, it did get better. It is relatively hard, so if you enjoy a bit of a challenge this game is for you. I like the way you control other characters and can command them to do things, but I wish a bigger party was possible and some characters are better off not being used at all so you need to re-use the same ones. The biggest flaw with this game is how it saves data. You do not get to choose where and when you save, the game autosaves and only works off of one slot. If you missed an item or anything else, you cant go back and are stuck once it saves. If they wanted to do an autosave, the should allow you to re-do missions. Because of the save feature, this game gets 4 stars out of 5.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A GREAT GAME, December 31, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Legion: The Legend of Excalibur (Video Game)

I got this game based on the reviews on many sites. They mostly gave 3 stars. When I got this game I was expecting it to be good but with a few flaws. And thats what it was like. This game is an excellent game for strategy and RPG gamers. It has the famous story of king arthur and the knights of the round table. This game lets you find all 8 knights of the round table and select 2 to travel with you on individual missions. I loved this game. I would recommend it to anyone who thinks that it might be cool and if your worried it might [be bad] It is better than what people write their reviews about.

The Good:
13 Huge levels of fighting and roleplaying.

Choose the knights of the round table to go with you on
missions.

Lots of items to find and equip in different levels.

Awsome cutscenes and movies.

The Bad:
Autosaving, you cannot save the game when you want. It automatically saves after you complete a mission. You cannot save during a mission.

Missions can be long and you cannot save to rest.

When you die during a mission you start at the beginning.

RATING
This game is pretty tough for the first couple of missions but, it is a great game and I recomend this game to any hard core gamers. FOUR STARS.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars could have been better., August 15, 2002

By 

Sean Kramer (California, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Legion: The Legend of Excalibur (Video Game)

This game is an ok for the PS2. The graphics are not all that good and the CG's are pretty good too. Another thing I dont really like is that you have to switch your characters when fighting. That was pretty easy to get used to though. The characters are small it almost looks like PS graphics when fighting. The sound and the phrases of the characters start to get annoying after a while. Some levels it is fun to destroy the enemy and then some they just overwhelmed me and got very frustrating. The only thing I really liked was the story of the game. Where Arthur has to fight his evil sister to save england. That would proably be the only thing that saves this game. I would not say to buy this game, I would more likely say to rent it.