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Legend of the Dragon is a fighting game from Game Factory that's based on a cartoon that currently airs on Toon Disney as part of its Jetix programming block. It's about a pair of 15-year-old twins, Ang and Ling, who are on opposite sides of a martial-arts-themed conflict involving humans that can transform into beastlike creatures. The fighting in this game is uniformly terrible, giving you the feeling that the product was constructed as a licensing tie-in first and a game second, but the ugly graphics and lack of character speech mean that this probably won't do ... Expand full review
Legend of the Dragon is a fighting game from Game Factory that's based on a cartoon that currently airs on Toon Disney as part of its Jetix programming block. It's about a pair of 15-year-old twins, Ang and Ling, who are on opposite sides of a martial-arts-themed conflict involving humans that can transform into beastlike creatures. The fighting in this game is uniformly terrible, giving you the feeling that the product was constructed as a licensing tie-in first and a game second, but the ugly graphics and lack of character speech mean that this probably won't do much for fans of the show either, making it a failure from every angle.
Legend of the Dragon is available on both the PlayStation 2 and the Wii. The PS2 version has very standard controls, with buttons for blocking and throwing. The Wii setup uses the Wii Remote and the Nunchuk and is very similar to the PS2 controls, though on the Wii you'll block by pushing down on the D pad, and you'll throw by pressing down on the D pad and waving the remote toward your opponent. All of the special attacks require some form of Remote movement, and none of them feel precise. Graphically, the two games are very similar--both of them have bland visuals, with a generic cel-shaded look and weak animation that makes all the characters look pretty bad. The backgrounds are also ugly and plain. Because the game is based on an animated series, you'd hope for some form of voice acting, but other than the typical fighting game grunts and a few very short voice clips here and there, it plods on in silence, using text to convey the quest mode's nonstory.
Because of the game's dull fighting system that doesn't play well against the computer-controlled opponents or against a live human being, it seems almost impossible to have fun with Legend of the Dragon. When you factor in the total lack of detail in the attempt to mimic the cartoon's look and feel, you're left with a game that even diehard fans of the relatively obscure cartoon will probably hate. Do yourself a favor and keep your distance.
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