10/21/2019 (2 of 2 found this helpful)

This Land is Your Land. Really, You Can Keep It.

As a fan of the Dungeon Crawler subgenre of RPGs going way back, I was pleased when I stumbled upon an unknown-to-me series in that genre on GOG. The ‘Lands of Lore’ trilogy, developed by Westwood Studios and originally published by Virgin Interactive, begins with “Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos” (“LoL”), which immediately got my attention with the picture of my late paternal grandmother on the box.

I often hear PC Master Racists lamenting the consumption and digestion of Westwood Studios by Electronic Arts in 2003. Yet I have never really been cognizant of the games Westwood produced. As it turns out, the late development house was responsible for a number of franchises I’d actually heard of (like ‘Command and Conquer’), and even played (like ‘Kyrandia’), but...

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