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The Bard's Tale (PC)

by Ubisoft
Platform:   Windows 2000 / 98 / NT / Me / XP
3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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  • Platform:   Windows 2000 / 98 / NT / Me / XP
  • PEGI Rating: Ages 12 and Over
  • Media: Video Game
  • Item Quantity: 1
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Product Features

  • Third person action RPG that casts you as the Bard, musician and adventurer
  • Based on the original Bard's Tale, the grandfather of all role playing games
  • Snarky/Nice conversation system lets the players choose the tone of the Bard's interactions
  • Get immersed in an environment alive with interactive townsfolk, original music, birds, animals, rustling trees, waving grass and trickling water
  • For 1 player

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  • ASIN: B000219RM4
  • Release Date: 17 Jun 2005
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 5,852 in PC & Video Games (See Bestsellers in PC & Video Games)

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The Bard's Tale is an action/role-playing game in which the player takes on the role of the Bard - a sardonic and opportunistic musician and adventurer, driven by carnal rather than noble pursuits. The Bard is not interested in saving the world, his humble motivations are strictly "coin and cleavage."

A truly non-linear game, the player chooses the Bard's responses towards other characters he encounters with either 'snarky' or 'nice' dialogue. Each choice changes the course of events in the game. The action takes place in medieval times in a land based on the Orkney Islands off the coast of Scotland - the inspiration for many of the classic fantasy stories.

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Game but......, 8 Jul 2005
A good game in the Diablo style but with a lot of wit and humour. Some of the cut scenes are very funny, and I find myself singing the songs from the game. "Beer, beer, beer" and "Oh it's bad luck to be you!".
But the only video cards supported are ATI Radeon X300/9500 and NVIDIA GeForce FX series (not GeForce 4 MX). Additional chipsets may be supported, you need to see UBIsoft support.
Also the control system is poor and slow being a mixture of mouse and keyboard. I found that Bows were almost impossible to use until I installed a modified XBox controller. Then things improved enormously and the game became much easier and better.
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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good for a laugh, 18 Aug 2005
By Andrew Cowley (UK) - See all my reviews
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It probably says something about a game in which you try and get through the combat as quickly as you can to get to the dialogue.

The good thing it says is the dialogue and voice acting is well done and funny. And it really is. Cary Elwes always does well and the banter between the main character and the narrator is most amusing. It's just a shame he didn't choose a more over the top Princess Bride accent for the job.

The bad thing it says is the combat is dire. It's mindless hack and slash and the lack of tactical choices combined with an awkward 'spell' system do tend to make it something to endure rather than enjoy.

Graphically I think it's a treat. This is the first time a PC has been graced with the engine that powered Dark Alliance on the console, and it looks the part, especially the water. The system requirements are resultingly steep though, as it forces your system to recreate routines obviously optimised for a console platform. That said, I find it perfectly playable on a 1ghz pentium III with an FX5700. But I wouldn't advice anything less than that on the graphics front. A major tip would be to get a hardware sound card, and make sure you have the latest drivers - I had the slow-mo effect until I updated my sound drivers at which point it flew.

This game could be better - if combat was done better, or if you actually had an inventory (the game just equips the 'best' pieces and automatically converts the rest into gold). Some of the convertion to PC has left rough edges - the cut scenes being especially poor, with other low resolution effects popping up from time to time. Control-wise I actually found the mouse and keyboard set up worked well though.

It'll keep you chuckling with it's constant pokes at other games in the genre (yes - you can do a quest where it actually helps someone to go around smashing barrels for no reason). It's a budget priced game, and worth picking up for the odd session of play.

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17 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Nice idea but......................., 6 Jul 2005
This game had great potential and should have been great fun. However I am not sure how powerful a system one would need to play it properly.The game runs like a slug on Valium - I have a 2.8G process and 512 Mg of RAM with 128 bit graphics card and a 7200 hard disc...not the fastest but still okay for all other gamesand I cannot get it to play at an acceptable pace. In desperation I did a full install (7.2gb) which helped a little but any combat is impossible as it will stop and then jump forward in an unpredictable manner. The graphics look good but always looking down can be very confusing in woods and one can lose sight of the enemy!! The narrative is amusing but like the game play the video sequences jump and it gets spoiled. I appeciate it may be a fault in my system but it does not happen with any other games ..... so whilst i liked the idea of the game it has failed in the execution
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