Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood
Prince John Lackland has stolen the throne from King Richard Lionheart and put him to jail. You play as Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men, fighting Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham. Use the…
Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood is a point-and-click developed by Spellbound Entertainment, released 14 November 2002 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $1.19 at Humble Store. The main story takes about 17 hrs to finish.
What Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood is
Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood is a point-and-click game developed by Spellbound Entertainment and released in 2002. It was published by Strategy First. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood is a 2002 stealth-based real-time tactics video game developed by Spellbound Entertainment. It is similar to games such as Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive and the Commandos series. In the game, the player controls up to five characters in a setting based on the stories of the protagonist, Robin Hood. The player can also control Robin Hood's Merry Men, including Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet, Will Stutely, and Maid Marian. Robin and his crew must evade the cruel Sheriff of Nottingham and his henchmen and stop the machinations of the vile usurper to England's throne, Prince John. Robin must avoid killing enemies as much as possible, or he will not…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are historical and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 501 rated point-and-click games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 12 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 82, across 63 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 17 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 30.3 hrs, roughly 1.8 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $1.19, that works out to about $0.07 per hour of the main story, or $0.04 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.0 GHz CPU, 512 MB of RAM and Video Card with 64MB dedicated memory. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.19 at Humble Store, 85% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood launched on 14 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.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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