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Fun, fun, fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I really enjoyed this game, and I am a 40 year old woman who is a newbie to the game world. I was able to play it and actually finish it!! My partner is a much better gamer than me, and he enjoyed it as well. So, I would say this would be a plus for the whole family. One funny thing, the two female characters are the strongest, yet the male characters are more promiment on the cover art.

Dungeons and Dragons Heroes

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is great! Especially when you get your friends into it and they join you. It's one of the best xbox party games i own (with more than 30+ games in my collection) *brag* *brag* :) It's kinda like Asheron's Call for xbox (ok... maybe not quite) but the experience usage is very cool. My favorite characters are the warrior and the cleric. i wouldn't recommend starting out as a warrior because then you get in the hard-to-break habit of going up and slashing everything. this is very negative towards your carreer in either a wizard or rogue. Overall i'd give this game 4.5 stars! Try this game.

ok, but needs some work...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this gamer was great except for on multy player when you walk away from each other it zoomes out so far you can't see any action. And another down drop in it is that the characters can only use their appointed weapon. the warrior can only use sword weapons. the rogue can only use daggers, the wizard, staff weapons, and the dwarf, hammers and ax's. so really if you like having a selection of weapons with any tupe of character, this RPG is not for you.

Pretty good

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you like games like Baldur's Gate and Gauntlet Legends, this game may be for you. It's not too complicated, but the options are limited, and after a while of playing you may get a headache from having to spend an hour or two in each stage. Definitely for fans of the AD&D series, but may not be that fun for those who get bored easily of repetive gameplay. Replay value=1/5

a good team-playing game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you've played Baldur's Gate before, then *Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes* will be a piece of cake for you. In fact, I found it to be a bit too easy, especially when battling the "bosses" for each level.

Nonetheless, team-playing is always fun with destroying the enemies, collecting coins, weapons and rewards, discussing strategies with your teammates and the like. The best part is solving the riddle or looking for sacred items in order to advance to the other side or the next level.

I was the rogue which I accidently chose because I wanted to be the wizard. So, that meant I had to battle with a bow and arrows and an array of swords (cutlass, kris, etc.) My teammate was a fighter that has this awesome "war cry" that, when used, paralyzes enemies in their place for a few seconds. This gave us the opportunity to destroy them before the spell fades away.

Overall, it was a fun game! Now, I just need to go to the bathroom and put on a band-aid on my raw thumbs. Played this game over the weekend until we finished it!

Fun to play, But alot better with multi player

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

With out a doubt, this is a great x-box game. I know that a lot of people say it's "boring" or "to easy", And yea i agree it is a little easy, but why don't you just turn the difficulty on hard in the pause menu. I'm sure that will make it a little more challenging.

Second, This is a very loooooonnnnnngggggg game. But when you think about it. Those are the games you like. i don't know about everybody else, but for me, as soon as you beat it, you don't feel like playing it anymore. This game for some reason i don't mind playing over. And when you play with four people you get almost three times the amount of gold out of chests than just one.

Overall, i think this is going to be a classic game, especially to play with your friends, and i would recommend it to anybody who like these type of games.

This game does the Dungeons and Dragons universe justice

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I must admit that I'm a pretty big fan of Role Playing Games, I'll play them in virtually any format. After playing "Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance" on the Xbox I knew they were at least heading in the right direction with these games development. So when I saw "Dungeons and Dragons: Heroes" I decided it was definitely worth trying out.

Granted this isn't in one of Dungeons and Dragons' specialized settings like Forgotten Realms, but I thought they did a good job on it overall. The premise is sort of typical for a Fantasy setting, the evil wizard wants to rule the world. I have to admit my bias that I typically enjoy these games regardless of cliché storyline. This game features multi-player co-op up to four players on one system. This is one of the other major things I look for. The one thing I think really makes a game great is that the player can play through the story line with a friend. Even "Pariah" was semi-fun because I was able to play it with a friend and that game was kind of stupid. I'm not sure if I would ever sit down and plays "Heroes" by myself, so I recommend you play it with another person at the very least. Anyway, the only problem with that co-op ability is that it suffers the same kind of camera hang up like any other overhead view game on the console. Your characters have to stick together and be visible on the screen together. That's a limitation I accept when I purchase these games, so people should just deal with it. At least in this game you could rotate the camera around, unlike in "Hunter: The Reckoning", which was infuriating at times.

The story is a little different in the way they present it, so when I say you have to fight the wizard, they setup why you have to fight him in a fairly unique manner. These little twists to a basic story premise are usually what keep me coming back for more. Basically your characters have faced this wizard, Kaedin, before, but that was 150 years ago. In an epic battle long ago all of the player characters died in that battle bringing Kaedin down. Now Kaedin has been resurrected by some evil clerics hoping to harness his power, but they couldn't control him and now he's loose again to take over the kingdom of Baele. So the only recourse was to raise the player characters, which had defeated him before, in a like manner.

You're characters start off at level one so you have to do a decent amount of questing to build up your characters strengths. This isn't like the epic computer games where you can choose even the minutest details about your character like in "Icewind Dale" or "Neverwinter Nights," but "Heroes" basically has a preset arrangement. You can choose to be a fighter, wizard, cleric or rogue. So you basically choose the class and you go from there, you don't get that much customization. A background story for your character is even written up in the booklet. For the level up areas they use the "Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance" method where you spend points to buy special skills... the interface is practically the same. It worked great in the other game, so why change something that's perfect? Another interesting level-up concept that was introduced in this game was that throughout the game your characters can find these items called "soul shards." I think the shards harnessed some of the Player Characters' former might. There are twenty in all throughout the game hidden in different areas, when you find five your characters weapons level up. It was an interesting concept and I really liked it. The weapons image even changes as it gets stronger.

So the main quest is that you have to find the gems that harnessed all of Kaedin's power and use them against him. Throughout your quest to find the gems you get brought to all kinds of different lands and there are a few side quests to keep your characters more occupied. However, the amount of side quests is small in comparison to the more epic games like "Planescape: Torment" for example. Overall the game was pretty short for an RPG, especially one that has such an epic background. However, the story was pretty well written and has some pretty good twists with the characters you can interact with in the area. Overall I would say I enjoyed the Baldur's Gate games a little more, but this game had its moments. The graphics were a little better than the first Baldur's Gate game at least. The only draw back is your characters couldn't jump in this game. That was a stupid limitation in my opinion. Being able to jump is always more fun.

When we were playing the game my friends and I found a pretty interesting way to cheat in this game if anyone is interested. Throughout the game you find elixirs of strength, wisdom, dexterity, etc. You can give all of these potions to one character and save the game. Then the other characters can leave the game and come back as that character you gave the potions to. See you can choose whatever character you want and you can have more than one wizard in play at the same time and it doesn't bother the system! It's a good way to have more than one fighter or whatever in the game if you have a couple friends that want to be the same class. It at least gets around the system. Both characters just have the same name, that's all. Anyway, so now that you've come back as the same character you have all those potions, so you give them to the regular person and then leave the game again. You come back as your regular characters, save the game. The increase is exponential because the character can get a bunch each time you come back and give them more. Then you just divide them and give the loot to your friends to use too. Despite the fact that my friends and I had around 200 Constitution we still found the game challenging and almost died in some areas.

So overall I thought this was a pretty worthwhile game. It doesn't have huge amounts of replay value in the end, but it's something your friends and you can run through once in a while if you're desperate to pull out an old game. I think this game does the Dungeons and Dragons universe justice and it is really fun to play through. In the booklet it even suggests that you take the game beyond just the video console and take it to the tabletop and play your characters in more adventures. It's a pretty neat suggestion, one my friends and I haven't tried yet. I'm not sure this game was worth its original price of 50 dollars when it first came out, but to pick it up used is certainly worthwhile!

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