Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair
Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair is an action-adventure video game released in 2002 by Dragonstone Software. The game is based on Cinematronics' 1983 laserdisc arcade game Dragon's Lair, and follows a…
Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair is an adventure developed by Dragonstone Software, released 17 November 2002 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair is
Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair is an adventure game developed by Dragonstone Software and released in 2002. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair is an action-adventure video game released in 2002 by Dragonstone Software. The game is based on Cinematronics' 1983 laserdisc arcade game Dragon's Lair, and follows a similar story; the hero, Dirk the Daring, must enter the evil wizard Mordroc's castle to rescue Princess Daphne from Singe the dragon. Many of the characters and locations from the 1983 original make appearances in the game, along with new puzzles, rooms and enemies. Animator and director Don Bluth, who produced the cartoon animation for the arcade original, also produced two new animated sequences for the opening and ending of the game. The game uses cel shading to mimic the distinctive…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair holds a critic score of 37 out of 100. That places it above 3% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 31 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair launched on 17 November 2002, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metroid Prime, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Metroid Fusion. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metroid Prime, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Metroid Fusion.
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