In 1999, Westwood Studios released the third, and what would prove to be the final, game in their ‘Lands of Lore’ series, “Lands of Lore 3” (“LoL3”), no subtitle. The studio’s fateful acquisition by Electronic Arts, which would ultimately digest and excrete Westwood as so much waste, had happened the year before, and contemporary journalism paints “LoL3’s” release as ‘delayed,’ in spite of the fact that there were a mere two years between its ultimate release and that of its predecessor, thus revealing early glimpses of EA’s overbearing expectations of its acquired studios.
I went into “LoL3” more out of a sense of obligation than I did with any expectation of a good time. I had bought this entire series, sight-unseen, from GOG during a sale, expecting a s... |
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