Shannara
Shannara is a computer game released in 1995 for DOS and Microsoft Windows. It is based on the Shannara series of books by Terry Brooks. The game has some elements taken from RPGs, such as top-down world-map…
Shannara is an adventure developed by Legend Entertainment, released 30 November 1995 on DOS.
What Shannara is
Shannara is an adventure game developed by Legend Entertainment and released in 1995. It is available on DOS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Shannara is a computer game released in 1995 for DOS and Microsoft Windows. It is based on the Shannara series of books by Terry Brooks. The game has some elements taken from RPGs, such as top-down world-map traveling and occasional turn-based battles. However, there is no real role-playing system in the game (statistics, experience points, levels, etc.). The battles serve to emphasize the danger of traveling the wilderness, or appear as story-related events; sometimes, they are treated like puzzles, with specific actions leading to victory.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Shannara holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored 4 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Shannara launched on 30 November 1995, within three weeks of Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Suikoden, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and Rayman. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Suikoden, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Rayman.
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