Dungeon Lords

Dec 29th, 2008 by cm1

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Though today’s role-playing games are often expected to be sweeping, story-driven epics, it used to be that most such games were pure dungeon crawls. You’d guide a band of adventurers through increasingly dangerous mazes filled with more and more, bigger and bigger monsters, while finding treasure, solving the occasional puzzle, and gaining experience levels. Dungeon Lords is a throwback to this style of gaming, with its emphasis on hack-and-slash combat and corridor crawls. As such, it’s consistent with designer D.W. Bradley’s previous works, which include some of the later titles in the classic Wizardry series. Dungeon Lords is a lengthy game that can offer a lot of the basic thrills that make role-playing games fun to play. Unfortunately, a slew of noticeably missing features and other problems may well end up drawing too much of your attention away from the game’s good parts.

Dungeon Lords is set in a fantasy world on the verge of ruin, thanks to the ambitions of an evil wizard. This is your prototypical fantasy story, which casts you as the hero destined to save the day. Whether you see all this as typically uninspired or traditionally archetypal probably will depend on how tolerant you are of convention. At any rate, Dungeon Lords may not seem terribly original with its cast of elves, dwarves, goblins, dragons, and whatnot, but it offers a few amusing twists in its interpretations of these sorts of icons. The game’s got something akin to homegrown charm. It’s not flashy, and it’s not trying to turn your world upside down, but it’s got kind of a goofy quality about it that can be a refreshing change of pace from the very serious tone of many role-playing games. You’ll notice this early on as you hear legions of goblins gleefully cackling like a bunch of bozos as they circle and swarm around you.

You play as a single character in Dungeon Lords and are free to choose from a variety of races and classes when you create him or her. The broad range of starting options turns out to be somewhat deceptive, but that’s not really a bad thing. You can be everything from a dwarf fighter to an elf adept to a human mage, or maybe one of the game’s several different “demigoth” races, like the diminutive thrall or the hulking urgoth. But these drastically different-sounding choices don’t really limit how you can go on to develop your character as he or she continues gaining experience throughout the game. In fact, there are a whole bunch of advanced character classes that aren’t available at first, which you’ll be able to pursue later on as the adventure continues.

Dungeon Lords includes a multiplayer feature, letting two or more adventurers play through simultaneously. We experienced some pretty bad lag with more than two players running around, but the cooperative play could help give the game some extra-added depth and longevity. It also possibly invites a greater variety of playing styles than can be justified when playing through solo, where you’re forced to contend with your enemies alone (in most cases). Even so, multiplayer doesn’t resolve any of Dungeon Lords’ gameplay issues, so you’d need to find another fairly tolerant RPG fan to appreciate the game’s finer points along with you. With some more follow-through, Dungeon Lords could have been a significantly better game, making it a lot easier to recommend to fans of the genre. As it is, the game can still be worth getting into, if you aren’t particularly bothered by the parts of it that aren’t there.

NOTE: This Game Is In German!!!

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