New Legends

by THQ

Product Details

• ASIN: B00005RCNC
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches ; 5 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,454 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

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New Legends combines intense action and high adventure with cinematic combat and an engaging story line set in a future China. Players will approach battle with the style and skill of a master martial artist. They'll have the ability to wield two weapons at once while performing dramatic attacks and a selection of specialized moves.

Product Description

In NEW LEGENDS, you're a young warrior who is skilled in both the ancient ways of war and the advanced technology of modern warfare. With your martial arts background, you're virtually a one-man army as you take on an evil that's bigger than you ever could have imagined. Using melee and ranged weapons, you're in for the fight of your life and that of your homeland as you wander through a futuristic world in search of answers and justice.

Customer Reviews

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Review of New Legends (Edited from Preview), December 12, 2001

By 

Marc Perez (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: New Legends (Video Game)

New legends, like Halo, was originally was announced for the PC. Microsoft has since made this an XboX exclusive. This game is an Action/Adventure game with a twist of 3-D fighting. Your main character must destroy the evil that is plaguing the lands. Through out your adventure you will pick up weapons, mostly meelee weapons. You can dual wield (means use 2 weapons at a time) weapons, but some requires you to use 2 hands like axes and bow. Weapons and combinations will be associated with different combos, but there will be six main weapons you must get to progress in the game which will be from 6 warlords you must defeat. The enemies seem to spawn constantly so you will not run out of things to kill.

Having been just released, New legends might be a new game but
it will remind you of old school gaming. Why? It is simple yet
addicting. The graphics won't impress you, it doesn't take full advantage of XboX's potential and there is not excuse for it. The gameplay is what will make you stick to your TV, the variety of
weapons available and combos are just too many and the controls is quite easy. One thing you have to keep in mind is that however
many times you save, once you die you will restart that level,
one major flaw that will irritate you.

New legends is a good game, but its replayabity is questionable.
There are no modes or gametype you can choose, and no multiplayer
whatsoever. Might be an advisable rental. The game roughly is 5-7 hours to finish.

Graphics and sounds = 2/5
Gameplay = 4/5
Replayabilty = 1/5

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars awful just awful, June 6, 2005

By 

Sherlock (FORTH WORTH TX) - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: New Legends (Video Game)

new legends was just a bad game eveything about this game is horrible lets just list the pros/cons

(PROS)

the game was cheap

(CONS)

bad voice acting

horrible story plot

bad martial arts fighting

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars New Legends - Great gameplay, substandard graphics, May 5, 2002

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Ruined (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: New Legends (Video Game)

New Legends has gotten poor reviews from numerous sites due to its graphics, which are not up to par with other XBOX titles. This game, however, offers outstanding gameplay which fans of old school beat-em-ups like Final Fight will love. This game was developed by Infinite Machine, headed by the designer of the original Jedi Knight. Not surprisingly, this game has a lot in common with LucasArts' Obi-Wan, which happens to use the Jedi Knight engine. It has the same fun mission based kill-everyone-in-sight 3rd-person gameplay, but instead of wielding a lightsaber, you wield numerous weapons of Eastern theme, ranging from samurai swords to razor claws to guns. Being that you can hold one weapon in each hand, you can either spin around, slicing opponents as you go, or shoot opponents with a gun while at the same time hitting them with a sword attack from your other hand; there are two attack buttons, one for each hand. Though the action in the game is very repetitive (like any beat-em-up), the levels are diverse and a blast to play through. The graphics in this game are better than Obi-Wan, but more on the level of Dreamcast than XBOX. In addition, you also see sub-30fps framerates at points, which also detracts from the graphics. All in all, a worthwhile purchase due to its addictive gameplay, as long as you can get over the graphics.