Buy from Players: 1 RRP: £39.99 Legion: The Legend of Excalibur is a role-playing game that features you as King Arthur, with the option to play as his subordinates as well as you embark on 14 missions, training them up along the way, to attain the goal of defeating the evil forces of Morgan Le Fay with your swordsmen, archers and mages. The first thing you do is obtain Excalibur, the famed sword, although you won't get it until you've had a chat with the other guys about the baddie and need to kill a few of his henchmen. Graphically, it is worth a look. While I'm not a big fan of these type of games, I prefer to wander about and cut enemies up with a sword, rather than take it in turns to take swipes at them, a la Final Fantasy X. However, as you go from place to place, the movement of your character just seems too slow and I found myself starting to lose interest.

The sound is reasonable with a pseudo-epic score playing in the background, the rain pouring down at the start and a feeble swipe as you swashbuckle your way around. For those who do enjoy RPGs, it's an easy game to get into if you can stand playing at a slow pace, but whereas it promises some action, there's far from enough for my tastes and overall I found the game a bit tiresome.

GRAPHICS SOUND EFFECTS AND MUSIC PLAYABILITY ENJOYMENT OVERALL Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2002. [Up to the top of this page] DVDfever.co.uk - Est. February 25th 2000 As of April 2009, Blu-rays and DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TH-37PX80B 37" Plasma TV with a Sony BDP-1500 Blu-ray player and played through a Yamaha DSP-AX820 amplifier. PC games reviewed by the editor are on: Since Jan 2011: Intel Quad Core Dell XPS 8100, i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80Ghz, 8Gb RAM, nVidia GeForce GTS 240, Windows 7 Since Nov 2005: Intel Pentium D 830 3.0Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 128Mb nVidia GeForce 6700XL, Windows XP Since Aug 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.66Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb GeForce4 MX440 graphics, Windows XP Since May 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.6Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb ATI Radeon 9600TX graphics, Windows XP Since Jun 2002: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, 64Mb ATI Radeon 8500LE Since May 2000: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, Voodoo 3 3000 AGP