Dungeon Lords
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| Developer(s) | Heuristic Park |
| Publisher(s) | DreamCatcher Interactive, FX Interactive, Crimson Cow, 1C, Typhoon Games |
| Designer(s) | D.W. Bradley |
| Platform(s) | PC |
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| Genre(s) | Role-playing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Dungeon Lords is a real time fantasy role-playing video game developed by David W. Bradley of Heuristic Park, originally published by DreamCatcher Games and Typhoon Games, and released in 2005. However, many features were left out from the original release in an effort to meet the release date. In 2006, they re-released the game as Dungeon Lords Collector's Edition with more complete features.
In 2012, after the demise of DreamCatcher Games and subsequent acquisition by Nordic Games, they announced the re-re-release of a completely "remastered" version of the game, titled Dungeon Lords MMXII.Dungeon Lords MMXII has been given an official release date of September 25, 2012.
In 2015, a version of the game titled Dungeon Lords Steam Edition surfaced on Steam platform.
Dungeon Lords' gameplay features a combat system where weapon combos are controllable by mouse movements. It includes quests, personal missions, skills and special abilities for customizing the character hero from a small set of races and class specializations. Dungeon Lords can be played either single-player stand alone or in multi-player group sessions. The combat was inspired by console fighting games.
Many gamers experienced extensive problems while playing the original release of the game, including quest items disappearing from inventories, NPCs getting stuck, key quests failing, doors that do not work, etc.
Metacritic, a review aggregator, rated the game 45/100 based on 28 reviews. Many reviews criticized the game's initial release as a rushed project, released before it was truly finished. Some have gone so far as to say the game is still in the beta development stage. One reviewer wrote, "Dungeon Lords marks a new low for how incomplete a game can be and still get released". Dan Adams of IGN rated it 4.5/10 and wrote, "Dungeon Lords is a disaster. It's an unfinished, unpolished, and un-fun game that I thankfully never have to play again." Greg Kasavin of GameSpot rated it 6.8/10 and wrote that the film, though fun, is unbalanced and was missing key features at launch.
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