Legend Hand of God - PC

Developed by Master Creating and published in 2008 by DTP/THQ, "Legend: Hand of God" is an isometric action role playing game set in the fantasy world of Aris. The player assumes the role of Targon, a young monk protector, who has to find a powerful artifact simply called the Hand of God in order to prevent a demon army from destroying his world. Here are my thoughts on Legend: Hand of God;Pros+ Randomized dungeons.+ Addictive gameplay.+ Graphics are nice and crisp. Armor, weapons and environments are exceptionally well detailed.+ Overwhelming amounts of impressive random loot.+ Fantastically foreboding soundtrack by Dynamedion's Tilman Sillescu, Alexander Röder, Alexander Pfeffer, Pierre Langer and Markus Schmidt. Honestly, this is one of the finest scores I've heard in a fantasy game.+ Various environment layouts (forests, snowy mountains, swamps, plains, deserts etc.)+ Maps are completely blacked out (think Baldur's Gate) until you explore the area making it easy to remember where you've been.+ Luna's light source is useful in dungeons and draws no aggro from mobs.+ Can respec (change) all skills (not base classes) at any time for a nominal cost. This is great if you choose a skill that ends up being lackluster or doesn't fit your build.+ All bosses respawn when game is loaded making farming for upgrades or rare drops easier.+ Some humorous dialogue as your character is a bit of a smart a$$.+ Items don't wear out or degrade resulting in not having to waste money on repairs.+ Simple, fluid and varied combat animations.+ After finishing the game you can start over again with all items and appropriately scaled enemies.+ 5 Path professions to choose from, of which you choose two. This creates a unique hybrid character (Similar to Guild Wars or Titan Quest). The Paths are Warrior, Villain, Magic, Wilderness and Faith. Some final class examples include Paladin, Arcane Archer, Ranger, Archmage, Assassin, Battle Monk/Mage etc.+ Close up view of your character in your inventory screen allows you to see and choose everything you equip.+ Portal Runes allows you to teleport to the last obelisk from anywhere in the game and then back again.Cons <Contains SPOILERS>- No LAN or Online co-op mode.- Can be difficult to get to run on both Windows XP and 7 due to buggy PhysX. This involved quite a bit of online troubleshooting.- Mobs don't scale with your level.- Larger dungeons of 3-4 levels only had save obelisks at the entrance and end of the dungeon. Navigating through one level of a dungeon can take upwards of an hour, to expect the player to wade through 3 levels without saving is unrealistic and annoying.- Both outdoor and indoor layouts can start to feel repetitive in their build design.- Buggy and can crash frequently causing you to lose your progress up to the last save point.- Often unable to use skills/heals if you're standing over an item on the ground. This becomes problematic in large fights where plenty of items drop at your feet.- No day, night or weather cycles.- No cool down indicator on skills.- Poison spitting and frost breath using enemies are incredibly overpowered often resulting in near instant death before you can react.- Luna the Light Elf (faerie) is terribly annoying and repetitive.- Poor voice acting with most dialogue being read flat and verbatim.- Enemies can always see you approaching from behind no matter what.- Can't rotate the camera, only allowed to zoom in and out.- Some outdoor areas were much too large. The elven swamp was a perfect example as you can spend hours just trying to explore and clear it.- No tutorial.- Save points are limited to obelisk locations. Anything in between those points is at risk of being lost in a random crash.- The Serpent Temple was incredibly laggy.- Some graphical glitches can occur on your character. As an example I once had boots that after equipped appeared around my waist. My hands, feet and legs completely disappeared a few times as well.- Finishing/kill animations prevent you from using any skills until the sequence ends. This can sometimes be problematic if you're low on health and there are still mobs left.- Can only have two active skills loaded at a time.- Constant enemy knockdowns can get old.- Game has frequent 3-5 second freezes while the adjacent area you're entering loads."Legend: Hand of God" was a highly addictive and fun run-of-the-mill fantasy action RPG. Unfortunately, along with that enjoyment came quite a few bugs, some frustration and an overall lack of polish. My character build was a "Battle Monk" which consisted of combining the Villain and Faith Paths and I ended the game at L33. I will admit that when I finished the game and was given the option for a second play through with all current gear, I was tempted. However, after approximately 25+ hours of gameplay I decided that (even with the allure of new and undiscovered loot) once was enough. Legend is not a bad game by any means, but it's definitely meant more for patient hardcore hack, slash and loot players. But, for the current price tag you can't really object for what you get. In the end I'd give Legend: Hand of God 3.5 stars.

I just uninstalled Legend HG an hour after I installed it. The game requires a super high end machine to play, I can play Titan Quest on my machine but I can't play this. The mouse cursor is impossible to control even if you turn off all the graphic setting to low. If you haven't played Diablo, Fate or Titan Quest get those games, they're fun and run fine.

Did not work for me wanted main computer owner to run first time I am the computer owner and still would not run. Wish it would really wanted to play it.

If you like Diablo, Dungeon Seige, Champions of Norah, Baluders Gate, ect, then you'd like this game. But for some reason, the game crashes a lot. The screen has frozen on me many times, and for the first time the game just shut off bringing me to my desktop screen. I have a decent computer, GE Force 9800 video card, HT Omega Striker 7.1 sound card, and a P4 3.2 Ghz, and 1.5 RAM, and I have 85 GB of free space. The game requires you to have the following specs: P4 2GHz, 1GB ram, 5 GB hard space, a sound card that is Direct X compatible, and a video card found on their website: [...]. My video card is def much newer and much more expensive then the card they state, maybe that is my problem, but I doubt it.Anyway, good luck!

Great PC game for when you don't want to be on line. Fun to play and figure out where the bad mobs are at or when they are going to attack. Fun to play. :D

The U.S. reviewers and critics were much harsher on this game than need be. The game has won several rpg awards in Europe. Maybe they appreciate good action rpg's more than U.S. playersThis was my funnest and best rpg play for 2008 beating out Titan's Quest, Sacred 2, and Avencast.First off, do a google search and find the beta-patch for the PhysX problem in installation experienced by some players. Second,find the savegame editor by Matthias Meissler that lets you edit and change character stats, skills, money. Previously when I played the game I was defeated repeatedly by the over-powered large green dragon. After I lost all my money, potions, and mana I ended the game not to touch it for a couple of months. But, with the editor I gave my avatar high stats, rushed through the opening scenes, defeated the dragon, then reset my avatar stats back to a more balanced approach. There is plenty of colorful and fun game play after the green dragon.One could play the game through 3-4 times to max out at level 100 or you could edit the avatar from the beginning with level 99. However, that would enable Targon (main character) to breeze through without much competition. Some of the main enemies are very tough customers to fight and defeat, though.Now here are my impressions:1. Graphics for; scenery, swamps, caves, crypts, water, mountains, forest, deserts, monsters, ebemies, characters, and avatar all above average. Very nice. Good variety of trolls, bears, wolves, thieves, elves, goblins, hydras, a dragon, scarabs, spiders, (no rats, yeah), dwarves, modified cobra snakes, human spiders (name escapes me), etc., etc.2. Ambient, fighting, voicing, weapons, musical background sounds very good. There have been complaints about voice-acting but apart from somewhat whimpish avatar voice the rest is appropriate and just fine. The side-kick, "Luna" tinker-bell repetitive chatter does annoy somewaht after awhile, however. She is very useful as movement/fighting cursor, light in caves, at night, and in dark places.3. Weaponry, armor, potions, mana, spells, equipment, clothing, magic items all appropriate and fairly well-balanced. Inventory packs could be a little bigger to house more. Did find space wanting when I loaded up on potions and mana at the expense of weapon/armor variety.4. Fighting "animation" like jumping into opponents, twirling, downward thrust, quick chops, etc. are nice touches I haven't seen before.5. Many magic touches are very colorful and powerful. Some aren't too noticeable like extra shield and armor protection.6. There were a couple of places when completing side-quests where there was hardly any reward or proclamation of success except for looking at the quest log and finding a line entry. I feel there should have been more fan-fare for going out of the way to complete them. Thus, I deliberately didn't complete two of the smaller and obscure side quests in the game.7. Fairly long game if you play it through with all the side quests. On regualr setting it will likely entail 30-40 hours. With an edited avatar at about level 30 throughout the game could be completed in 20-25 hours.8. This is definitely a hack n slash action rpg. Fighting, fighting, fighting. You will have a sore mouse finger after a few hours. Make sure you have a comfortable and fast mouse.9. To me, right now, with good prices on this game here at Amazon, "Legend: Hand of God" represents allot of good to very-good gameplay for the money. Colorful, action-packed, great experience/adventure and neat settings will appeal to most.Give this a try. Interesting twist of events at the end. Sad ending...you'll have to play and beat it to find out. What are you waiting for.

Doesn't work on newer computers (though i wouldn't call my computer new...) The physx included does not install and version 9 it won't recognize even after beta patch.

Inexpensive but not even a good paperweight if you cannot use it. I will try it on XP 32-bit soon and update...

DIABLO系のハック&スラッシュは他にSACREDやTITAN QUESTやTORCH LIGHT等々有りますが、このゲームも負けず劣らずの出来映えです! システム面等はセイクリッドに近いので操作に戸惑う事は無いはず…。 英語が解らなくても大丈夫!たまに会話の選択ありますがテキトーに選んでも話しは進みます(笑) ハック&スラッシュの醍醐味は物語りではなく、トレジャーハントやキャラカスタマイズにあるんですから♪ 2008年作品なのでTITAN QUESTより後発ですね。それ故にグラフィックが美しいです! ハクスラ好きなら やらなきゃ損ですゾ!!