Lands Of Lore Guardians Of Destiny

by Virgin Games, Inc.

Product Features

• Crisp high resolution graphics with breathtaking hand made graphics.
• Classic award winning role-playing gaming.
• Filled with frightening creates from Dinosaurs and Hive Warriors to Visceroids and Two Headed Tigers!
• An epic journey across 15 enchanting realms in a huge 4 CD Role Playing Adventure!

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• ASIN: B0002VRAM8
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 13, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,435 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Guardians of Destiny is the sequel to Throne of Chaos, the original Lands of Lore game. Unlike Lands of Lore 1, Guardians of Destiny is an action RPG which occurs in real-time 3D (much like Daggerfall). The game features numerous video sequences featuring computer graphics and live actions, thus taking up 4 CD-ROMs. In Guardians of Destiny you are Luther, the son of Scotia (the main villain in the original game). In her quest for power and revenge Scotia accidentally set into motion the revival of Belial, God of Evil. Now that she's dead, it's up to you to clean up the mess left behind and stop Belial from reviving and doing all sorts of naughty things to the world. You are not without help... with her dying breath Scotia gave Luther her mighty powers of shapeshifting, but through an error Luther received the powers in a damaged formed: he cannot control when he changes or what he changes into. Things aren't easy for Luther. Not only is he cursed with his mother's power, but the people of the Lands are understandably upset with Scotia and will attempt to take their frustration out on Luther. But with his mother's magic and a little help from the Draracle (another god and Belial's parole officer) Luther just might be able to fulfill his destiny and stop Belial.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Engrossing and impressive, January 27, 2005

By 

M. Daneker (Spinnerstown, Pa USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Lands Of Lore Guardians Of Destiny (CD-ROM)

A fan of mostly Zelda & Metroid (with some FF & Castlevania and the like tossed in) I was initially taken back by this games style.

Much like a first person shooter, this game is like a mix between a Final Fantasy Quest with a Metroid Prime perspective.

The fighting can be damned hard, real hard. You get a target for aiming, but combining the target control with arrows, magic and your sword can be real tough when bombarded from all sides.

Fortunately you play this game by wondering, so you can find easier battles and toughen up, you skip around and do other things, collect different objects until about halfway, then the storyline takes over and you move into a new area and basically the second phase of the game.

Fans of intricate story lines will be dissapointed, and those who love long side quest won't find them here, although there are linking taske that can change the outcome of what items you end up with.

The brunt of this game is you, Arthur, are curse to change between a tiny, fast lizard and a large, sluggish but hard to kill beast. What I never could do was master switching between them, there is supposed to be a way to possess the power to change at will but the instructions never worked for me. Shame, you get real caught for long peroids of time stuck because your too big, or too small to get somewhere.

Over all a good, solid, lush-graphic filled game that runs super smooth on todays fast computers and still looks great!

A lot of fun and hours of exploring and wondering.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars OMG just what I remembered!!!, August 28, 2008

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R. Willard (SC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lands Of Lore Guardians Of Destiny (CD-ROM)

You have no idea my thrill when I popped those cd's in, and finally started playing!!! I've played it before, and playing it again, I remember it so well. The storyline is fantastic, and the gameplay keeps you guessing, and challenges even the experienced rp gamer. It's a mostly freeform roleplay game which allows you to do things for the most part in your own order, but then again certain things have to be done in the right order to progress. There's more choices than you can imagine. So many secret things, so many nooks and crannies with goodies hiding! You're likely to be discouraged at first by the difficulty and weaponry but as you progress things get interesting! If you're an old school gamer or even a newbie wanting a taste of the oldschool, ya gotta get this game!!! Play it a bit! Then start ya a new character and get the online helps to find the goodies! I'll warn ya now, it can be quite the challenge!!!!! And warning. Any use of this game may become addictive and habit forming... (only cause it's so kewl...) Graphics aren't exactly XBox 360 but think outside the box (pun fully intended) and you'll enjoy a game that takes you to the limits...

5.0 out of 5 stars Awsome game, March 26, 2011

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Robert Hobart - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lands Of Lore Guardians Of Destiny (CD-ROM)

This game is great it is one of the first 3D(the picture shows depth, not 3D glasses type) video games made.