Dragon's Lair 3D

List Price: $9.99 Discount Price: $7.75

Features:

• Dragon's Lair 3D tells the tale made popular in the classic arcade game
• Guide Dirk the Daring to overcome new monsters and obstacles lurking in the shadows
• Brave Singe the Dragon and the Wizard, Mordroc, to save Princess Daphne
• 15 large, detailed, action-packed levels featuring more than 40 environments
• Over 250 new rooms with numerous puzzles, traps, power-ups, and hidden secrets to uncover

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

Save yourself the frustration! [Posted on 2003-04-11]
I remember seeing this game in the arcades as a kid, so I thought this would be great. I could work through it and discover all the great surprises in the castle without spending a fortune in quarters. Instead this may be the first game I toss out without bothering to finish. Most parts of the game are ridiculously simple. Stuff like stand somewhere in the vacinity of a giddy goon and swing wildly. Then you will get to a level where you can easily see what you are supposed to do, but the key controls and lag time make it impossible to negotiate the puzzle. Maybe it works on an x-box but save yourself the frustration and don't even consider this game for your PC.

JUNK! [Posted on 2003-04-15]
This has to be the biggest disappointment I've ever purchased. The keyboard controls are horrible, and look out, if you hit the "Windows" key on accident, the game pops out into windows and locks up, a hard reboot is required. Save yourself the time and money, not worth it at all. Wish I had never bought it.

Beautiful art/colors, great gamplay! [Posted on 2003-07-07]
The game is very long and it follows a great storyline. I have played through the game now 6 times in the past 4 months. Quite simply one of the most enjoyable games I have played in many many years. Those that insult the game are expecting a Quake III type game. Dragon's lair 3d does a great job with the type of gameplay it offers. Deny yourself this title and you are missing one of the best... PERIOD. It isn't all hyper run/jump/shoot like a first person shooter. You can run around, play around, just enjoy this game. Once again, the Graphics and Environment are FIRST RATE.

Sweet Nostalgia... [Posted on 2003-09-27]
...but still has some of the old problems.

This game is actually more entertaining than I would have expected. I liked the original Dragon's Lair game, so I purchased this one as well. Of course, the game now is somewhat different, especially since the original game was so limited. I gotta say that they did a good job at carrying over the old look and feel though. This game basically is a platform-puzzle game. Of course, this is the game that invented cell shading, and the graphical style is great.

The bad news is that this game is really not quite up to today's standards. This is especially true for the controls. This game has by far the worst controls that I have seen in any computer game in a long time (probably since C64 days...).I have customized my controls a lot (I am now using the FPS-style WASD keys), but it is still horrible. Especially since one uses camera movement most of the time to turn the character the right direction. For some odd reason, the ability to turn the camera is lost every so often, which means you have to control the character entirely with the keyboard. Argh! It's almost like playing a bad pac-man clone! Often, it is hard to move Dork.. ah... Dirk accurately. One often falls off edges for no reason other than the controls not working right. On top of that, the whole game is not very responsive. You jump off a rope and try to draw the sword to quickly engage the enemy, but nothing happens. C'mon, people, DirectX's DirectInput technology really isn't rocket science! This is just sloppyness. This game needs more polish!

On the other hand of course, crappy controls probably are 50% of the true Dragon's Lair feeling, so maybe some people will overlook this problem. ;-)

I wasn't sure whether to give this game 3 or 4 stars (or maybe even less?). I went for 4, because I think fan's of the original game will get some entertainment out of this title. If you have never played Dragon's Lair before, or do not have fond memories of it, you may want to think twice before you get this one...

Not as it seems [Posted on 2006-07-11]
I remember when this first came out in the arcade at Disny Land in Southern California. It had a crowd of people around it for hours waiting for a turn to try their luck at this amazing looking game.

Well, this is not that game. it has been restructured to play on your pc. What they did was butcher a arcade classic. The controls are shotty, the graphics sort of look the same but are not true to the original. This gets boring after the first 10 min of game play. Waste of time and money.

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