| 1 | Legend Entertainment was a company founded by former members of Creator/{{Infocom}}, focusing on {{text adventure}}s with static pictures to the side. Creator/SteveMeretzky was their most prominent writer. Many of their games were adaptations of popular SF&F books, usually faithful to the spirit, even if rather loose. Early games (''Spellcasting'', ''Timequest'', ''Gateway'' and ''Eric the Unready'') had a powerful parser, that also allowed to choose nouns and verbs from a large dictionary; subsequent adventures dropped the parser leaving only [[PointAndClickGame pointing-and-clicking]] (and greatly reduced the number of available actions), but featured much better graphics. |
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| 3 | In 1998 the company was bought by GT Interactive and shifted focus to action games. They made a moderately successful first-person shooter ''VideoGame/TheWheelOfTime'', and then worked on the ExpansionPack ''Return to Na Pali'' for ''VideoGame/{{Unreal|I}}'' and the sequel ''VideoGame/UnrealIITheAwakening''. In 2004 the studio was closed by its then-owner, Atari, the reason being that "Legend had recently completed its only current project and had no new projects in the pipeline", though it's widely believed that the catalyst for its closure was the poor critical and commercial reception of ''Unreal II''. |
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| 5 | !! Their games include |
| 6 | [[index]] |
| 7 | * ''Callahan's Crosstime Saloon'', based on [[Literature/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon short stories]] by Creator/SpiderRobinson. |
| 8 | * ''Companions Of Xanth'', based on'' Literature/{{Xanth}}'' novels by Creator/PiersAnthony. |
| 9 | * ''Death Gate'', based on [[Literature/TheDeathGateCycle novels]] by Creator/MargaretWeis and Creator/TracyHickman. |
| 10 | * ''VideoGame/EricTheUnready'' |
| 11 | * ''VideoGame/{{Gateway}}'' series, based on [[Literature/HeecheeSaga novels]] by Creator/FrederikPohl. |
| 12 | * ''[[VideoGame/BlackstoneChronicles John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles: An Adventure in Terror]]'', based on the Creator/JohnSaul novel series. |
| 13 | * ''VideoGame/MissionCritical'' |
| 14 | * ''Shannara'', based on [[Literature/TheSwordOfShannaraTrilogy the "classic" Shannara trilogy]] by Terry Brooks. |
| 15 | * ''VideoGame/StarControl 3''[[note]]adventure/arcade/strategy with emphasis on dialogs[[/note]] |
| 16 | * ''VideoGame/TheSpellcastingSeries'' |
| 17 | * ''VideoGame/SuperheroLeagueOfHoboken''[[note]]adventure/RPG[[/note]] |
| 18 | * ''VideoGame/TheWheelOfTime'', set in the world of Robert Jordan's [[Literature/TheWheelOfTime novels]], but not canon. |
| 19 | * ''VideoGame/{{Unreal|I}} Mission Pack: Return to Na Pali'' |
| 20 | * ''VideoGame/UnrealIITheAwakening'' |
| 21 | [[/index]] |
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