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Description

The Dark Army is on the move again, led by the evil sorceress Scotia. Her goal is obvious: To destroy Gladstone Keep and its inhabitant King Richard. Scotia herself has recently become more powerful after acquiring "the Mask" from the Urban Mines, gaining the ability to shape shift. She is virtually unstoppable and able to infiltrate Gladstone Keep, poisoning King Richard. If it were not for the intervention of Sorceress Dawn, this monarch would surely be dead. In order to find a cure for the King's secret, a band of heroes must set out on an adventure, and keep themselves alive from the Dark Army forces.

Lands of Lore: Throne of Chaos is a Real-Time 1st Person Perspective, Dungeon Crawler Role Playing Game. Players begin by choosing from four selectable hero classes, including: Mage, Warrior, Rogue, and a balanced all-round hero. Each has their weaknesses and strengths but all abilities in this game can be upgraded.

The game does not feature manual character development, instead the game introduces a semi-automatic form of leveling up, where skills of the hero and the companions are divided into: Fighting, Magic and Rogue skills. Each skill level will increase when killing enemies using a particular type of attack: Melee weapons increase the Fighting skills, Magic increases the Magic skill and Ranged weapons increases the Rogue skills. In the course of the game players will form a party of up to 3 heroes in the quest for the cure. The player is able to equip these characters with new weapons and armor in a "paper doll" styled interface.

Alternate Titles

  • "黑暗王座" -- Chinese title (Traditional)
  • "Lands of Lore: Chaos Na Tronie" -- polish title

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User Reviews

A wonderful and magically innocent combination of fantasy and fairy-tale worldwideweird (49) 4.83 Stars4.83 Stars4.83 Stars4.83 Stars4.83 Stars
Finally, on their own grounds MAT Bronze Star Contributing Member (34668) 4.67 Stars4.67 Stars4.67 Stars4.67 Stars4.67 Stars
Fun adventure, the best of the series Thohan (19) unrated
A fascinating Eye of the Beholder-style game. ^LutheR^ (106) 4.83 Stars4.83 Stars4.83 Stars4.83 Stars4.83 Stars
I wish my sound would work on my old PC so I could play it again Cyric (50) unrated
An excellent Dungeon Master style game, that actually has very few dungeons. Chris Martin Bronze Star Contributing Member (1121) 4.83 Stars4.83 Stars4.83 Stars4.83 Stars4.83 Stars
An adventuress, spine tingling game with many creatures and puzzles. Jessica Meshke (2) 4.33 Stars4.33 Stars4.33 Stars4.33 Stars4.33 Stars

The Press Says

Quandary Nov, 1995 4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars 90
PC Gamer UK Jun, 1994 82 out of 100 82
PC Player (Germany) Sep, 1993 81 out of 100 81
Edge Oct, 1993 8 out of 10 80
High Score Oct 21, 1993 4 out of 5 80
Just Adventure 1998 B 75

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Trivia

2 Versions were released: A Disk version and a CD-ROM. The CD-ROM version featured Patrick Stewart as the voice of King Richard.


This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by Chris Martin Bronze Star Contributing Member (1121) on Feb 09, 2000.
 

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