Heroes of the Lance Amstrad CPC

Adventuresoft UK Ltd - Teoman Irmak, Matt Ellis, Antony M. Scott, Graham Lilley, Alan Bridgman, Brian Howarth, Richard Sheldon & Mike Woodroffe

Heroes of the Lance

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1988

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>THE LEGENDARY DRAGONLANCE GAME WORLD COMES ALIVE IN THIS EXCITING ACTION  >GAME. >Heroes of the Lance is the first computer game that re-creates the epic  >battle between good and evil on the world of Krynn. (It is based on the  >first DRAGONLANCE module, Dragons of Despair). Control eight companions  >in turn, in real-time action and full animation. Guide these brave  >adventurers each with different specialised skills, deep into the  >ruins of the temple Xak Tsaroth to retrieve the precios Disks of  >Mishakal.  >As you descend into the Abyss, the companions must defeat hordes of >monstrous Draconians in hand to hand combat, deal with powerful magic  >and survive the vicious attacks from Gully Dwarves, giant spiders, the  >undead and countless other terrors. But your final obstacle makes these  >monstrosities innocuous by comparison. The platinum disks you seek are  >guarded by Khisanth, an ancient black dragon and there is one way to  >vanquish this mighty beast. Find the key to destroy Khisanth and the  >companions will take their first steps to earn the noble title, Heroes  >of the Lance. > -- <cite>Game Box</cite> ***Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance*** is a video game released in January 1988 for various home computer systems and consoles. The game is based on the first Dragonlance campaign module for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, Dragons of Despair, and the first Dragonlance novel Dragons of Autumn Twilight. Heroes of the Lance focuses on the journey of eight heroes through the ruined city of Xak Tsaroth, where they must face the ancient dragon Khisanth and retrieve the relic, the Disks of Mishakal. ***Gameplay*** Heroes of the Lance is a side-scrolling action game. The game used actual Dungeons & Dragons statistics, with statistics for the characters exactly as they were in the rule books. Eight heroes from the Dragonlance novels series must be assembled for the quest, and only one is visible on the screen at a time; when one on-screen hero dies, the next in line appears. While Heroes of the Lance is a faithful representation of the books it is based on, it was a departure from the usual role-playing video game style of most Dungeons & Dragons games, and many players lamented its difficult gameplay interface[citation needed] which consists of using one character at a time in horizontally scrolling fighting. Each character has different types of attacks and spells making them more suited to fighting different enemies but they merely act as "lives" for the player as in more traditional fighting games, removing one of the main strategies of role-playing games from the game. Source:[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Dungeons_%26_Dragons:_Heroes_of_the_Lance)