Lands of Lore 3

Let me say this first, this is my first Lands of Lore game I played, I never really had any chance to get the game, when Iw as younger, but I still watched the teaser for LoL 2 and it was amazing, it was cut quickly, showed a ton of different locations, demons, mystical creatures, interresting magical places. Thus after I had some real craving for a first person dungeon crawler I got the entire Lol package and it was just..awful. I can see over blocky graphics, I don't really care, I can ignore the at times very strange humor, but I simply can't ignore that the game offers zero challenge, its so incredibly easy that I once mistakingly attacked a shopkeeper and killed him with a freaking dagger, that guy had gear worth atleast 3000 coins around and I could just take it, wanting to see if this was jsut a bug I attacked another shopkeeper inn the thief hideout and yes, she is a frail old lady, but she did zero damage to me, her store filled with artifacts to the brim just stood wide open for me. Now I don't know what the problems will be down the line for killing those guys, so I started a new game and to my suprise nothing seems to be able to kill me, I even avoided the very easy boost you can just buy for a mere 10 coins to permanantly increse your mana or health bar and still I found so many healing items on the way, not to mention the free healing spell you get for joining a certain guild, that I never even was near death in 5 hours of gameplay. The game is doomed for having a rather uninterresting story, bland characters and next to no challenge combat wise, which is even worse, when you realize that the combat flows extremly well, different creatures have different defences against weapons and magic, there are ranged weapons or throwing weapons, a lot of melee weapons even, but its just so easy to slaugther your way trougth the enemy that the whole combatsystem is a waste.

I like the game but it is full of bugs & hard to finish... You can get stuck & have to reload from earlier save game. Like already mentioned by others stuff vanishes. Multiple side quests cannot be completed correctly (at least in my playthrough). It did not age well unfortunately. If you want to experience the LOL story, watch a playthrough of the 1st game, then play the 2nd game & watch a playthrough of the 3rd game.

Not perfect, but pretty close to it (by '99 standards.) Good story, remarkable acting, good controls. A few bugs and minor annoyances, but overall - much fun.

This game is quite great. The story is well told, the dialogs have a kind of cheesy humour which adds to the relatively funny atmosphere this game gives. The environment is lovely designed, though it looks a bit... blocky. You have to fiddle with the controlls a bit and get used to the basics, changing controlls from arrow keys to wasd is a requirement to work with both keyboard and mouse at the same time. I'd recommend this game since it kind of keeps up with todays time (if you overlook the design in the woods outside of towns and caves). It is a game worth playing that holds up more than just good old memories, it is a fine game indeed!

LOL 3 was not of the same caliber of the first 2. Although it contained some of the previous characters, the development was a bit disappointing. It would've been nice if Westwood Studios had used live action video, like they did in LOL 2, with updated graphics. Instead, they chose to join the emerging world of polygon based characters. Because of this, the game felt cheapened, average, and rushed to market. The gameplay also seemed shorter than the first 2, probably due to the EA takeover, although some of it was memorable. You have a choice of one character, with a couple of guilds to join, but I don't know if it makes much difference in the game. I only played it through once, and it seems like I spent a lot of time selling items to merchants. It was still fun. Overall, the game isn't bad, but it could have been better. It has puzzles, traps, and secret areas, like we became accustomed to with the series. There are plenty of enemies to fight, with new NPC's and environments throughout the game. The character and plot twists were interesting. I would say that the main reason to get this game is for closure, if you've played the other two. It doesn't stand out as original, but it is worthwhile. At an awesome price, I purchased it to complete the set, and will play it again to see if there's a new appreciation for it. I would still recommend giving it a try. As with LOL 1 & 2, GOG has done a terrific job with Dosbox to make this game come alive, and playable under Windows 10. It comes with Glide support which, although looks better, is limited to 800X600 resolution. It also has DirectX support, which seems to be only limited to your monitor resolution. It would be interesting to try it with DirectX at 4K. The only glitch that I've seen so far was an error pop-up about insufficient video memory, when I exited out of a cut scene. This may be a problem with a game bug itself, or Dosbox. Other than that, it works perfectly. GOG is the best.