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Legendary
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 31 critic reviews
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Game Info
Publisher: Gamecock Media
Developer: Spark Unlimited
Genre(s): First-Person Shooter
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: M (Mature)
Release Date: November 4, 2008
Summary
(Also known as "Legendary: The Box") Legendary tells the story of Charles Deckard, an art thief who is duped into stealing Pandora’s Box. When he inadvertently opens it, he releases hordes of beasts thought to be fictional – such as werewolves and gryphons – into an unprepared modern world. A full scale war between man and myth begins, and it is quickly complicated by the actions of powerful secret societies. As the person responsible for releasing this terror, Deckard’s unwittingly become the only person capable of containing it once more and saving civilization from being destroyed by the terrifying creatures. [Gamecock Media]
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Gameplanet
This could well be a surprise hit for those willing to invest the time. Despite a lack of polish, there's a relatively deep story for fans of mythology.
Read Full Review >GameDaily
Legendary is sure to be lost in the shuffle this holiday season, which is sad because it's actually pretty good.
Read Full Review >Thunderbolt
What it will do, however, is allow you blast through ten or so hours of adrenaline-pumping scripted sequences with plenty of impressively rendered mythological beasties.
Read Full Review >ZTGameDomain
There is a lot of hope buried under the surface and if they can manage to unleash it, the game could truly live up to its namesake.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club)
Legendary isn’t the most involved or technically excellent shooter to come out this season—Left 4 Dead and Gears Of War 2 outclass it. But it’s a fun change of pace with some extremely satisfying combats.
Read Full Review >Worth Playing
Legendary is by no means a legendary experience, but it's not a train wreck either. It's not worth the full $60 asking price, but it's a good rental for anyone who wants to punish some ancient myths or who's in need of a decent FPS to pass a few hours.
Read Full Review >GamingExcellence
Legendary’s problems would be easily forgivable if the rest of the package came together well enough but it doesn’t. With only four different enemies to fight for most of the game (one is a second breed of Werewolf), a mostly useless selection of guns and annoying bosses paired up with a story that doesn’t go anywhere the game fumbles its execution totally.
Read Full Review >Game Informer
Legendary is by no means awful — it’s just about as vanilla as first-person shooters get. It all wraps up with a completely unsatisfying “wait for the sequel” type cliffhanger. We’ll see.
Read Full Review >PTGamers
Legendary is an acceptable, sometimes frustrating game, a simple entertainment until the great first-person shooters of the year are released.
Read Full Review >Play UK
It’s a shame the care and attention that Spark has given to the visuals and presentation is quickly squandered by some glaring gameplay errors.
Read Full Review >Playstation: The Official Magazine (US)
Mindless fun, and it's at its best when you don't pay too much mind to the incoherent story and limited gameplay. [Holiday 2008, p.88]
Playstation Official Magazine UK
The undeniable charm of using automatic weaponry on magical monsters is just about enough to make it worth a look. [Christmas 2008, p.120]
Armchair Empire
It'd be probably work well for a rental, but much like a Sci-Fi Channel Original, Legendary isn't something you'd want to admit to having played.
Read Full Review >PSX Extreme
Legendary is an example of a title that could’ve been both exceptional and memorable, but ends up being neither due to a variety of major flaws in the glaring inconsistencies, unrefined technicals, and overall gameplay.
Read Full Review >Meristation
While it's a better game than Turning Point, Spark still shows a lack of capacity to design a modern and competitive FPS. Slow controls, unfair difficulty, boring game mechanics and forgettable story make this title simply uninteresting, except for some moments of visual spectacle fighting colossal creatures.
Read Full Review >Cheat Code Central
There are just way too many better shooters available to make this game worth your time and money.
Read Full Review >AceGamez
Even if you have too much time and money, Legendary still isn't worth a purchase.
Read Full Review >DarkZero
The Minotaur says with his sad cow eyes glistening “Don’t worry guys, everything will be alright”, but the Minotaur knows it’s not going to be alright… it’s not going to be alright at all.
Read Full Review >GameCritics
There is inspiration underlying this game; it's just too bad the promising first thirty minutes wind up buried under hours and hours of mediocrity.
Read Full Review >PSM3 Magazine UK
Merely a disappointing and lightweight FPS. [Christmas 2008, p.86]
My Gamer
Just about everything about this title comes up short. Disappointedly short. All the makings of an interesting story and gameplay are here, but it’s as if the developers had a “it’s good enough” attitude.
Read Full Review >Playstation Official Magazine Australia
Absolutely terrible. It's simply broken. [Christmas 2008, p.92]
3DJuegos
Constantly spawning enemies… Solid walls that light can leak through… A bad first-person shooter experience.
Read Full Review >Gaming Target
Legendary could have been and should have been so much more; especially with it's awesome premise. Instead, we're stuck with a game that feels like it's more set-up for a sequel than as a standalone game.
Read Full Review >Gaming Age
All together, Legendary had a decent idea behind it that's been marred by some poor design decisions. Shooting and controls feel ok, but everything you shoot at, interact with, or run through is lackluster, broken, or just plain boring.
Read Full Review >PS3bloggen.se
Pandoras Box has truly been opened by Spark Unlimited. The graphics are sub-par, with immense slowdowns and juttering refresh rates. Also, the online community is nowhere to be found, rendering the multiplayer experience useless.
Read Full Review >1UP
By the time I'd defeated my 10th werewolf, I was already tired of needing to cut or shoot its head off so it didn't regenerate. By the time I defeated my 200th, I just wanted to turn the game off.
Read Full Review >HellBored
Unreal III engine. Check. Monsters. Check. Guns. Check. Then why does it feel like a soggy chocolate biscuit?
Read Full Review >IGN
Unfortunately, the gameplay comes across as messy and incomplete, the arrangement of hazards and threats from monsters is ineffective at best and boring at worst. Plot points and development is practically nonexistent, and the standard shooter mechanics just fall flat.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 5.3 (out of 10) based on 11 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
