Lionheart Legacy of the Crusader Free Download for PC is an action role-playing game, developed for the PC byReflexive Entertainment, and released on August 13, 2003. The game is viewed from a ¾ isometric camera angle (as is common in many third-person role-playing games, such as theDiablo series). It focuses on a protagonist, controlled by the player, as he travels on a quest that constitutes the central focus of the game. The plot stipulates a rift in reality that drastically altered medieval history by allowing demons and other similar beings to enter the mortal realm. During the game, the protagonist encounters and interacts with numerous historical figures such asJoan of Arc, Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei who are represented as non-player characters.
Lionheart utilizes the SPECIAL role-playing system, which was first used in the Fallout series, and in this game functions primarily in adding points to specific skills in separate trees to strengthen a character's «Spiritkind,» which has a personality and nature chosen by the player at the start of the game.
Lionheart met a lukewarm response by critics, only achieving a ranking of 64% on Game Rankings and 57/100 at MetaCritic. Lionheart Legacy of the Crusader Download free Full Version.
Gameplay
As Lionheart implements the SPECIAL system, the character creation is inherently similar to the Fallout series. A player begins by setting the values of his or her character's strength, perception, endurance, charisma, intelligence, agility and luck, and selecting «traits,» which alter a character's inherent abilities for either better or worse, for the duration of the game. In addition, the player must distribute points to «skills» – abilities which a character uses to achieve various effects. One skill, «diplomacy,» allows the player to talk their way out of situations gone awry, while another, «sneak,» allows the player to move undetected by enemies. Unlike the Fallout series, Lionheart also allows the player to select magical skills – an example being «discord,» which turns hostile enemies against one another.
A player also selects «perks» during the course of the game – abilities similar to traits, which affect a character's abilities in some form; for example, the ability «Superior Senses» grants the player character a +1 bonus to his or her perception and +15 skill points in the «find traps/secret doors» skill.
Another element newly introduced by Lionheart is the player's selection of a «Spiritkind» for their character, which is done during the «character generation» at the game's start. A «Spiritkind» is a spirit, which is either demonic, elemental or bestial, that resides in the player character and occasionally rouses to explain happenings or gameplay mechanics, or advance the plot.
Notably, the character generated by the player is the only character a player has direct control over, and though characters will occasionally join a player's adventuring party, they are AI-controlled without exception. Lionheart Legacy of the Crusader Game free Download Full Version.
Plot
Setting
Lionheart 's historical chronology puts forth that Richard the Lionheart's massacre of 3000 prisoners at the Siege of Acre, during the Third Crusade, was used by a villainous character as fuel for a ritual which tore the fabric of reality. This resulted in magic invading the game's world from other dimensions. The game itself takes place during the 16th century, which, due to the alternate reality setting, has been ravaged by uncontrolled magic and demonic creatures.
During the course of the game, a villain seeks to fully and permanently open the dimensional rift which was only temporarily cracked during the Third Crusade, while the player character, who is a descendant of Richard the Lionheart, attempts to stop it.
Several famous historical personas appear during the course of the game, most of them residing or imprisoned in Barcelona: Miguel de Cervantes, William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Leonardo da Vinci. This is impossible in the real-world history, but it is implied that they are being kept alive by the spirits inhabiting their bodies or other magical means.
Story
The PC (Player Character) is introduced as a slave who has been suspected of possessing magic. To prove this to the slave master, the slaver captain has thrown the PC unarmed and alone into an arena to face a firing squad of archers, with the intent of forcing the PC's magic powers to publicly manifest through a near-death experience. Sure enough, as the arrows strike and the PC falls wounded, his/her resident spirit shows itself and rebukes the slavers. The slave master, convinced, declares that he will hand the PC over to the religious authorities per an arrangement with a mysterious «benefactor».
Later, the PC awakes back in his/her cell and gets a chance to converse with his/her spirit, who, depending on the player's choice, can be either the Elemental Spirit (which favors Divine magic and has a compassionate personality), the Demonic Spirit (which favors Thought magic and has an impish personality), or the Bestial Spirit (which favors Tribal magic and has a gruff personality). Shortly after introductions are made, however, the slave pens come under attack by mysterious, powerful warriors known as «Assassins», seeking «the one with the spirit of Lionheart». In the chaos, the PC, guided by his/her spirit, has to make good an escape through stealth, outright bloodshed, or diplomacy with a drunk guard.
Outside the pens, the PC is rescued by Signor Leo, an elderly wizard, who casts a transport spell to teleport them both to the gates of the city of Nueva Barcelona (New Barcelona). Here, safe at last, the PC will be able to get some answers out of both his/her spirit as well as Signor Leo, who is actually the great inventor Leonardo da Vinci. Among other things, it is revealed that the PC is in fact a distant descendant of the legendary King Richard the Lionheart himself, and it was none other than him/her the attackers were seeking. DaVinci has taken an interest in the PC thanks to a bond shared by both the spirits that dwell within them, and advises him/her to secure allies within Barcelona against the dark forces that are in pursuit. The PC will have to seek out and join one of the factions in the city to accomplish this.
The factions present in Barcelona are the Inquisition, the Knights Templar, the Wielders, and the Knights of Saladin. The Inquisition, much like in real-world history, is a holy order of priests zealously dedicated to rooting out heresy and unsanctioned magic. The Knights Templar were not destroyed in this alternate history and are now an army of noble, disciplined warriors who defend Europe and protect the sacred relics that were responsible for the Disjunction. The Wielders are a congregation of renegade wizards, on the run from the Inquisition's persecution, who maintain a secret lair within Barcelona itself. The Knights of Saladin are the Middle Eastern equivalent of the Knights Templar, come to Barcelona to speak with their ancient allies of the West, but are forced to camp outside the city gates as the local authorities do not trust their tolerance of desert magic. With the exception of the Knights of Saladin, who do not accept Westerners as full members but only as recognized associates called «Favored Ones», all the factions are open to the PC to join. (The PC may also opt to join the Dark Wielders, an evil splinter faction of the Wielders, but in gameplay terms there is little difference between it and the latter.) Lionheart Legacy of the Crusader game free Download for PC Full Version.
The PC may only join one faction, and the process of attaining membership will take him/her all over Barcelona and the nearby lands. Along the way, the PC will encounter several characters from real-world history who may be represented somewhat differently in this world: William Shakespeare is a struggling playwright in need of assistance to clear his crushing debts, Niccolò Machiavelli is a deposed Italian politician looking for a bodyguard to prevent attempts on his life while he schemes against the Spanish government to free his homeland, Grand Inquisitor Tomas de Torquemada is the aged, fanatic supremo of the Inquisition, Hernán Cortés is a penniless, crippled conquistador seeking funding for another expedition to the New World, Guy Fawkes is a spy for England who is trying to sabotage theSpanish Armada, Miguel de Cervantes is a writer gone mad who thinks he is being hounded by a strange illusory «beast», Galileo Galilei is a suspected heretic and prisoner of the Inquisition who is secretly a friend of DaVinci and the Wielders, Grace O'Malley is a former captain of the navy of the now-sunken Ireland who has joined the Armada in disguise to fight England, and so on.
The factions each have their own sideplots. The Inquisition will have the PC rid Barcelona of lingering spirits and its sewers of beggars who have been afflicted with the disease of wererat lycanthropy, before rescuing a fellow Inquisitor from goblin clutches and then finally seeking out (and possibly exposing) the hidden sanctuary of the Wielders. The Knights Templar will have the PC deal with a notorious brigand, help to police the outskirts of Barcelona, and rescue a fellow Templar from the thieves who are warring with the beggars/wererats in the sewers, before finally eliminating the slaver presence in the wilderness (the very same slavers the PC escaped from in the beginning). The Wielders will have the PC hunt for special materials to craft his/her own magic wand and then bring to justice an outcast Arch Necromancer who is plotting revenge against them for his exile; the PC may opt to betray them instead and help him take over their hidden sanctuary in order to join the Dark Wielders. The Knights of Saladin will have the PC track down one of their disguised informants in Barcelona, recover a priceless gem stolen from them by the slavers outside the city, and then brave a «dream trial» of his/her combat prowess or intellect.
Upon joining one of the three major factions, the PC will be tasked with the protection (or theft if he/she became a Dark Wielder) of one of the sacred relics, the Crown of Thorns, which is kept at Montserrat Abbey. The PC arrives at Montserrat only to find it under attack by creatures known as «snakebreeds», and the relic already stolen. A dying guardian of the relic known as Brother Montgomerie instructs the PC to pursue the thieves north and seek out a Brother Michel on the other side of the Pyrenees Mountains. Traveling north, the PC has to fight his/her way through the Duero Plains and the Pyrenees before arriving in France, in the southern Cathar town of Montaillou. Lionheart Legacy of the Crusader Free Download Torrent.
