Dungeon Lords

Dungeon Lords is a computer role-playing game of the game developer David W. Bradley and his developer Heuristic Park for Windows. The game was released in the U.S. by DreamCatcher Interactive and Typhoon Games, in Germany by Crimson Cow and dtp entertainment for the first time in 2005. Since then, in 2006 and 2012 two more, revised versions of the game was released. An Xbox version was planned, but was reinstated. The game was primarily due to its numerous errors in first publication in the criticism.

Action

The player assumes the role of a prophesied hero who is the ruler of the land, Lord Davenmor help. His daughter Ellowyn was kidnapped, murdered his assistant Galdryn and attacked his capital from hostile creatures. All these events are related, which could lead to the downfall of the empire. Is responsible for the chaos of the magician Volgar, the player must ultimately defeat.

Gameplay

The game follows standard RPG principles and can be played in both single player and cooperative in multiplayer mode. At the beginning the player creates a heroic figure, for which he can specify breed and classes as well as different talents and abilities. The game is built up from numerous quests that can take you explore the game world the player. Although the combat system works in real time, but can be paused at any time in single player mode to apply and the like healing potions.

Publication history

The developers tried to fix the numerous bugs with several updates. Published after the U.S. version German version already contained more features. Other important game functions, such as Automap were resupplied via patch. However, even with the publication of the final updates to version 1.4 suffered the game still under bugs and it's still missing several game functions.

In February 2006, published Dreamcatcher the Dungeon Lords Collector's Edition. In addition to other bug fixes they expanded the scope to play new quests and area, in addition items, spells, effects, monsters, and new possibilities for character creation. She wears the internal program version 1.5, an update that brings the original version on the state of the Collector's Edition, but was never published. With the decline of both the developer Heuristic Park as well as the publisher Dreamcatcher, which was acquired in November 2006 by JoWooD and realigned, the technical support and development for Dungeon Lords was finally largely stopped.

In November 2007, JoWooD announced its intention to publish both a stand-alone executable add-on for the third quarter of 2008 and a successor. In June 2008, JoWooD finally announced the development of Dungeon Lords: The Orb and the Oracle at. In August 2008 JoWooD published once a patch for the Collector's Edition. The sequel, however, appeared despite original announcement for the winter of 2008, never. 2011 was the Austrian publisher into bankruptcy and was settled. Instead, the new rights holder Nordic Games announced in April 2012 in cooperation with Heuristic Games Dungeon Lords MMXII, a revised and expanded edition of the original game, which was released on 25 September 2012.

Reception

Dungeon Lords has been mostly negative rated ( Metacritic: 45 out of 100). The first publication was often criticized as rash, referred to the game as unfinished or even as a beta version. The reason was mainly a large number of bugs in the first release with the version number 1.0. Many players met while playing on serious problems, such as suddenly disappeared from the inventory, important action items, festteckende non-player characters, missing key, non-functioning doors, non-functioning buttons on the graphical user interface, etc. The tester of the website game- over.net complained: "Dungeon Lords marks a new low for how incomplete may be a computer game and will be released anyway. "

Despite these technical shortcomings of the game but were also strengths as an interesting real-time combat system and a flexible character system to certify. For the German version, the testers also praised the German language edition. Despite the subdued reviews the game has sold more than one million copies.