Dragon's Lair (Blu-ray)
by Warner Bros
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Product Summary
Brand: Digital LeisureRelease Date: 2007-04-30
Model: 624719991024
Publisher: Warner Bros
Product features:
- Become Dirk The Daring, a brave but bumbling knight is out to save Princess Daphne - again
- Control Dirk as he fights through Mordroc's castle and its many dangers
- New characters combine with advanced cel-shaded graphics for a bigger, better adventure
- Digitally restored and enhanced with 5.1 Surround Sound
- Features interviews with original creator Don Bluth, Gary Goldman and Rick Dyer
Video Game Reviews of Dragon's Lair (Blu-ray)
Customer Review: PS3 Hit and Miss
Summary: 2 Stars
I have to say, the problems people state about playing it on their PS3 are valid. But it seems to be a hit and miss problem. I played this on my father's PS3 and it had that problem of hitting a particular scene and then freezing. I brought it home and played it on my own PS3 and it worked smoothly with not so much as a long pause between loading chapters. But hit and miss notwithstanding, the fact that this glitch appears on any of the PS3's (which by all rights should be playing it better than any stand alone player with all it's updating abilities) necessarily causes me to drop the star rating.
The other thing is that, whether you play it on Arcade or Home mode, it skips randomly around the scenes every time you die. Granted, once you've gone through all of them once, it will play the ones you died on in order until you pass them. But just the fact that it has the randomness, no matter what setting you put it on, to begin with just ruins the flow of the game and makes it really irksome until you get to the point where you're actually playing the game.
That said, once you get around to playing the game proper, and once you find a system that it works well on, this is a pretty fun game. I never got a chance to play it in the arcades back in the day. But being able to play it now shows how innovative this was at the time. Instead of controlling digital sprites, you (not so much as control as influence) fully animated cartoon characters. While the guessing and timing of when to press what button when can get aggravating at times, it's also rewarding when you finally figure it out.
Also, the graphics are amazing. There's a little featurette that compares the graphics of several versions (including the laserdisc and DVD versions). This is clearly the most polished this game has ever been.
So to break it all down, great game, awesome graphics, great transfer...when it works. That's the biggest strike. It simply doesn't work dependably. You may have a PS3 or other Blu Ray player that it works fine on. You might get it and find that it's glitchy at best. Given that kind of hit and miss chance of whether or not it will work, I simply can't recommend this product.
Description of Dragon's Lair (Blu-ray)
Dragon's Lair HD delivers the fun, tongue-in-cheek medieval adventure that made the original arcade games a hit. The Dragon's Lair games were the first fully-animated arcade games, and were favorites in the 1980s. Now the funny, fast action gaming experience is available on your Playstation 3, with the added bonus of HD technology. Sharper images, DVD-style bonuses and no more annoying pauses at decision points - all making a classic game even better. Comes with full-length visual commentary on the game All special features presented in 1080pPlaystation 3 Games
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