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| From: Valusoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $11.99
You Save: $28.00 (70%)
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Rating:  10 reviews
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Genre: fantasy_action_games
ESRB: Mature
Media: CD-ROM
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: 73055
Model: 73055
UPC: 755142730550
EAN: 0755142730550
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: New Factory Sealed
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| Features:
| • | Immerse yourself into the fantastic world of ARIS | | • | Search for the Hand of God in over 30 challenging quests | | • | Create your character from 5 skill trees including Path of the Warrior and Path of the Magician | | • | Over 30 types of monsters and big bosses | | • | A helpful light fairy accompanies you, acting as your mouse cursor, companion and guide |
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Product Description
Immerse yourself in the fantastic world of ARIS. In Legend: Hand of God, Aris is being devastated by the demon hordes that come rushing through the demon gate. Targon, last survivor of the Order of the Eternal Flame, sworn to protect the demon gate and keep it sealed, sets out on his epic quest to re-establish the order of things and forever seal the gate to evil.
Windows Vista / XP
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Had Potential January 3, 2009
RebelReader (U.S.A)
This gets the worst bugged game award. I was so looking forward to this game, then I found it had major graphic requirements. This game can only run on high end systems and just isn't worth the trouble. Had to purchase a new video card and reinstall updates and it still crashed. I was so looking forward to this game had great potential.
 MY best RPG gaming for 2008 December 28, 2008
David L. Grundvig (Magna, Utah United States)
The U.S. reviewers and critics were much harsher on this game than need be. The game has won several rpg awards in Europe. Maybe they appreciate good action rpg's more than U.S. players
This was my funnest and best rpg play for 2008 beating out Titan's Quest, Sacred 2, and Avencast.
First off, do a google search and find the beta-patch for the PhysX problem in installation experienced by some players. Second,find the savegame editor by Matthias Meissler that lets you edit and change character stats, skills, money. Previously when I played the game I was defeated repeatedly by the over-powered large green dragon. After I lost all my money, potions, and mana I ended the game not to touch it for a couple of months. But, with the editor I gave my avatar high stats, rushed through the opening scenes, defeated the dragon, then reset my avatar stats back to a more balanced approach. There is plenty of colorful and fun game play after the green dragon.
One could play the game through 3-4 times to max out at level 100 or you could edit the avatar from the beginning with level 99. However, that would enable Targon (main character) to breeze through without much competition. Some of the main enemies are very tough customers to fight and defeat, though.
Now here are my impressions:
1. Graphics for; scenery, swamps, caves, crypts, water, mountains, forest, deserts, monsters, ebemies, characters, and avatar all above average. Very nice. Good variety of trolls, bears, wolves, thieves, elves, goblins, hydras, a dragon, scarabs, spiders, (no rats, yeah), dwarves, modified cobra snakes, human spiders (name escapes me), etc., etc.
2. Ambient, fighting, voicing, weapons, musical background sounds very good. There have been complaints about voice-acting but apart from somewhat whimpish avatar voice the rest is appropriate and just fine. The side-kick, "Luna" tinker-bell repetitive chatter does annoy somewaht after awhile, however. She is very useful as movement/fighting cursor, light in caves, at night, and in dark places.
3. Weaponry, armor, potions, mana, spells, equipment, clothing, magic items all appropriate and fairly well-balanced. Inventory packs could be a little bigger to house more. Did find space wanting when I loaded up on potions and mana at the expense of weapon/armor variety.
4. Fighting "animation" like jumping into opponents, twirling, downward thrust, quick chops, etc. are nice touches I haven't seen before.
5. Many magic touches are very colorful and powerful. Some aren't too noticeable like extra shield and armor protection.
6. There were a couple of places when completing side-quests where there was hardly any reward or proclamation of success except for looking at the quest log and finding a line entry. I feel there should have been more fan-fare for going out of the way to complete them. Thus, I deliberately didn't complete two of the smaller and obscure side quests in the game.
7. Fairly long game if you play it through with all the side quests. On regualr setting it will likely entail 30-40 hours. With an edited avatar at about level 30 throughout the game could be completed in 20-25 hours.
8. This is definitely a hack n slash action rpg. Fighting, fighting, fighting. You will have a sore mouse finger after a few hours. Make sure you have a comfortable and fast mouse.
9. To me, right now, with good prices on this game here at Amazon, "Legend: Hand of God" represents allot of good to very-good gameplay for the money. Colorful, action-packed, great experience/adventure and neat settings will appeal to most.
Give this a try. Interesting twist of events at the end. Sad ending...you'll have to play and beat it to find out. What are you waiting for.
Wish I could play November 17, 2008
R. Bradley
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought the PCDVD version of the game and after a friendly enough install, I found that I could not play the game due to serious graphics glitchs.
My system is:
Vista Home Premium
AMD Phenom 9950 Quad Core
4gig ram
2 Radeon HD 3850 1gig vram connected in crossfire
All the latest drivers are installed but the game is totally unplayable. Before you spend your money on this title, I would check the web site and see if there are any known issues with your setup. I did this but to no avail.
They should pay us to play this game October 2, 2008
Robert G. Huwalt
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
To sum it up in one word, this game is awful, and I won't even mention the three crashes to desktop in two minutes. Yes I will, it crashes routinely while in the inventory section, and because of the very poor "saves" system, your forced to repeat the same levels over and over again, and over and over one more time. This will be the last THQ game I buy!
One step above 3 Stars...I mean let's be fair.... September 21, 2008
Lynn M. Vance (Starke, Florida)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I see quite a few (3 Star) ratings for this game which is just a wee bit
harsh.
Graphically, the game is right on par with just about every other in this
genre which is pretty good. There does'nt seem to be any lag or freezing
when there are several enemies on the screen along with spell effects on high and (AA) SET TO 4x on a RES of 1024x768,i didn't want to push it to my monitor's native resoltion for fear the game would not handle it well.
The story has also been done a million times before, but then again, it's
Fantasy and most fantasy games pretty much share common themes, which to
me is no BIG DEAL just as long as the character's,world's ect. are different, which is why this is my favorite GENRE and I'll never get tired of it, from -Wizardry to Zelda- and -Dungeon Master to Might& Magic-
it's all good.
Anyway's, I am yet to see any of the problems others have written about
this title and for those of you who are thinking of buying it, go for it.
If you enjoyed -Dungeon Siege,Titan's Quest- and other's of this type, then you won't go wrong with this one, just make sure what you run it on
is at least Modern enough to handle it and the game should run fine.
Here's a tip: Download the newest version of the (PHYS-X software) from
(Nvidia's Website) before installing the game.Not the greatest to Hack-n-
Slash to come out this year, but certainly not as bad as others have rated
it.
Happy Creature Hunting.
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