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Plot of the Game

The two main locations where the action takes place include New York City and London and the main character is Charles Deckard, a professional thief and his associate, Vivian, who are both hired by a wealthy businessman called Ormond LeFay to steal an artefact and the contents that are inside the artefact from a museum in New York. This shadowy figure works for an underground organization known as the Black Order and the artefact that he’s been tasked to steal just so happens to be the legendary Pandora’s Box (a mythical repository which is designed to contain all of the world’s evil).

LeFay and his organisation are fully aware of the true powers contained within the box, but Deckard doesn’t have a clue as to what it may contain. As Deckard opens Pandora’s Box for the first time to take a look inside, his hand immediately gets stuck inside the device and he also inadvertently unleashes thousands of mythological creatures and other evil beasts. A symbol is magically printed on his hand which is otherwise known as the Signet and this basically gives him the ability to channel the life-energies of the creatures that were released.

From here on both chaos and panic ensues throughout the world, but the Signet which has gifted him a total of five unique powers holds the key to helping him solve the crisis that was unleashed on the world. The special powers that help the thief throughout the game include Absorb, Feed, Heal, Pulse and Tame. Absorb allows him to absorb Animus - the life force, from the dead creatures. Feed allows him to flow the Animus energy into electronic devices. Heal allows him to basically self-heal, whereas Pulse allows him to daze the creatures and Tame allows him to tame and fly a Griffin, but this one is only ever seen in the ending animation.

There’s also the secret paramilitary force called the Council of 98 who teams up with Deckard to try and restore order, all while the Black Order doesn’t stop seeking to acquire Pandora’s Box. Their main goal is to gain control of the mythological creatures and eventually use their powers for world domination. It’s basically up to you (Deckard) and his associate, Vivian, to thwart the Black Order’s evil plans to take over the world, destroy the other-worldly beasts that have been unleashed and seal up Pandora’s Box once and for all, while trying to defend yourself from LeFay’s highly trained soldiers who are under strict orders to ‘shoot to kill’. Some have found the plot too complicated and others have said that it’s an immersive storyline that you can easily lose yourself in.

For most gamers the average time it has taken to complete the campaigns can range anywhere from three to five hours, depending on your style of play, which for many is just too short, and most seasoned players should easily be able to complete the entire game within a day or two (if you’ve got nothing else to do but binge-play). The characters movements have been said to be sticky on occasion or unresponsive and the crosshairs have said to be jittery which makes taking out your enemies rather difficult at times. There are also a lot of cut scenes throughout the game that you can’t skip and so it can feel at times as though you’re just watching the action take place rather than actually taking part in what’s going on.

Game Play and Other Info

Despite the fact that the game was made in 2008 and that not a great deal of money was spent on creating it, especially when compared to the amount of money that was spent on some of the other blockbuster titles of the day, the graphics are still really good. However, the game does unfortunately suffer from serious framerate issues during actual gameplay and during the cut scenes but the overall detail in certain aspects such as the shadowing and in the design of the creatures, buildings & backgrounds are superb to look at and are reasonably impressive.

The mythological creatures that you so often get to do battle with while playing on this game are also rather creepy to look at and this adds to the suspense and excitement of the game which has been panned by so many. The character modelling could have done with lot more improvement and while the music on this game is fitting, along with its intense and realistic sound effects, both of which are not worth complaining about, some of the acting in the smaller interactions could have been so much better.

The player controls are mediocre at best and the movements can seem somewhat uncooperative in parts but once you have got used to this minor issue it’s not actually too bad and quickly becomes bearable, especially when you compare the cumbersome controls that hundreds of other games at the time had. This is also one of those games where no real strategy is needed. For the most part you just aim your gun and shoot and so the overall gameplay is not as great as one would expect. It can feel a little repetitive with no real missions to complete, which is why some people have compared this game to the shoot ‘em up games that you can find at land-based arcades, which are not designed for you to immerse yourself in for hours at a time.

Although the enemies that you encounter throughout this game have fairly decent A.I, they are also relatively easy to defeat, particularly the mythological creatures which seem to just come at you with no weapons to attack you with. They can sometimes be facing the wrong way or can see a little confused as to what’s happening and this can take the fear element out of playing. However, the Black Order soldiers have fairly decent A.I. and are slightly harder to defeat. These ones can fire back at you, but you can easily take cover from the soldiers and it’s still not too difficult to destroy them.

There are a lot of tight spaces as you work your way through this game with annoyingly narrow passageways and even smaller spaces like air ducts and cramped sewers, which makes freedom of movement even more restricted. You will, however, find the occasional open space to fight in with plenty of room to move around, but the majority of the time these fight scenes take place in tighter spaces which is just not fun. You also can’t unlock any more special fighting abilities as you play. Players are kind of just stuck with the healing ability and the pulse stun attack that’s fired from your hand, plus you’re also extremely limited on the number of weapons that you have access to (less than ten individual guns to use and choose from throughout the entire game).

This is one of the only major real let-downs because with a game like this you would expect to have access to an even wider range of shooting weapons and it would have been great to be able to unlock even more special powers which is the case with most other games from this particular genre. It has a few semi-automatic weapons and even a flamethrower, but that’s about it really.

Conclusion

While most experienced players wouldn’t ever recommend this game and have pegged it as either flat out bad or mediocre at best, there’s still a small percentage of players out there who enjoy playing the game. For the Legendary video game to have been taken to the next level a much bigger pile of cash would have been needed and a more prominent game developer working behind the scenes would have made this game into something much more exciting and memorable.

The Legendary video game from 2008 has become a hard game to find and if you can manage to find it anywhere it shouldn’t cost you any more than a few dollars to purchase. In other words, the good news is that you won’t be losing much money if you purchase it and then decide that you don’t like it. It’s a great game for beginners or for those of you who have never played on a FPS video game before.

The company that made this game no longer exists and they eventually folded in 2015 after having made only five games (Lost Planet 3, Yaiba Ninja Gaiden Z, Turning Point: Fall of Liberty, Call of Duty: Finest Hour and, of course, Legendary). We would love to see a remake of this game, but this time around it would be good to see even more exotic weapons & more exciting locations, along with improved player controls and a general overhaul of the finer details.

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