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Lands of Lore III

Description

Lands of Lore III is the third and final part in Westwood's Lands of Lore series. You play as Copper LeGré, bastard son of Eric Legré, brother of King Richard and commander of the White Army. On a pig hunt with your father and brothers, some rift hounds appear from another dimension and kill your brethren and father. You can escape, but they take your soul with them. It is your task to prove yourself in a world where everyone suspects you from having killed your father and brothers to claim the throne. Your second task is to find out how to get your soul back.

Just like the previous games, Lands of Lore III is an action RPG played from the first-person perspective. After the introduction, you can perform tasks to join one or more guilds: Fighters, Clerics, Magicians and Thieves. Each guild comes with different abilities, and by using actions linked to the guild (fighting with swords, using magic, healing, lockpicking), your expertise improves. You are also offered a familiar, a creature that helps during your quests.

Copper has a large inventory, room for spells, a compass, a map, a journal and meters for health, mana and hunger. There is a fairly large amount of freedom; you can kill innocent NPC's and choose your own way to finish the game, with many side-quests. The locations include a volcano world, a frozen world, the underworld and various caves, woods, liars and castles. One of the more bizarre locations, Shattered Desert, takes you into a complex reminiscent of the Command & Conquer universe.

Alternate Titles

• "黑暗王座 III" -- Chinese title (traditional)
• "LOL3" -- Common abbreviation

Part of the Following Group

• Lands of Lore series

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User Reviews

Newer but not necessarily better	MAT (35183)
A bitter disappointment. What happened, Westwood?	Thohan (19)
Better than LOL: Guardians of Destiny	^LutheR^ (115)

The Press Says

Gamezilla	May 14, 1999	88 out of 100	88
GameGenie	1999		80
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	May, 1999	79 out of 100	79
Power Unlimited	Jul, 1999	7.8 out of 10	78
Game Over Online	Apr 30, 1999	77 out of 100	77
Electric Games	1999		70
PC Player (Germany)	Jun, 1999	70 out of 100	70
Game Revolution	Apr 01, 1999	C	50
GameSpot	Apr 30, 1999	4.3 out of 10	43
Svenska PC Gamer	Jun, 1999	59 out of 100	41

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Trivia

Next to the main quest, there is a large amount of secrets, trading, hidden items and loose threads in the storyline. The initial release was plagued with bugs, later fixed in a patch, but there are still bugs that can halt the gameplay completely.