00:00The award-winning Black Isle Studios, in association with Reflexive Entertainment, bring you the next great role-playing game.
00:10Lionheart, Legacy of the Crusader.
00:14Part history and part fantasy, Lionheart's gripping action and lush graphics deliver an epic story of an alternate medieval Earth.
00:23As a character in a world ravaged by magical catastrophe, you will need to gain allies, power, and understand your own heritage in order to save humankind.
00:38And now, we take you behind the scenes to hear directly from the creators of the game.
00:44Welcome to Lionheart, Legacy of the Crusader, the making of the game.
00:50I think the thing that makes Lionheart so special is that it both has the depth of an RPG and also the adventure of an action game.
00:57We've worked really, really hard to make sure that we've preserved all the things that players expect to see in an RPG from Black Isle.
01:03And we've also worked very hard to make sure that the game is engaging and has a lot of good action elements.
01:08One thing we're most proud of in Lionheart is the story.
01:10Current game time is 1588.
01:12400 years previous to that, there was a disjunction that let loose magic and evil spirits into the world.
01:16And the current game time has really been at the effect of that.
01:19Part of France has slid into the ocean.
01:21Spanish Armada is going to battle against England, but for different reasons than they did in history.
01:25And different historical characters have different motives for what they're doing, why they're doing what they're doing.
01:29Da Vinci is there, Galileo is there.
01:31There's lots of historical characters that are there, but they're doing things differently.
01:34They're reacting in different ways.
01:36And you're basically going to get to interact and do different quests with these characters.
01:39When you make your character in Lionheart, you're able to choose from four different races.
01:43The main pureblood human race and three divergent races that have sprung up because of the introduction of magic onto Earth.
01:51And those races are the Feralkin, the Demakin, and the Sylvan.
01:55And basically each of these provide a little bit different gameplay element for the player that selects them.
02:00The Feralkin is sort of the hulking brute.
02:03The Sylvan is the magically-oriented character.
02:05And then the Demakin is a very agile and quick race.
02:09One of the things that I really enjoy about Lionheart is the classless role-playing system, which is called Special.
02:15And you're not bound into any sort of class, like a warrior or a mage.
02:19You advance by spending points into different skills.
02:22And so what that means is that you can advance your character any way you want.
02:25If you want to be really good at combat or really good at magic or really good at speech,
02:29those are decisions that you make for your character.
02:31And you can change later on.
02:33Halfway through the game, you decide you want to be better at speech, start spending skill points there.
02:37When you play Lionheart single-player, you make one character.
02:41And then there are other characters within the game world that can join with your one character as you adventure through the story.
02:46And one of the cool things that we've introduced is a cooperative multiplayer mode
02:50where you and three of your buddies can each make their own character, join into the same game,
02:55and then play through the game together as a party.
02:57Lionheart has a massive opportunity for replayability.
03:01Depending on which faction you choose, your gameplay experience will vary.
03:05And the way the characters and monsters will respond to you drastically differ depending on which faction you choose.
03:10So you could always go through and play the game again with an entirely different faction
03:14and come across an entirely new story.
