Legend Entertainment was an American developer of computer games, best known for their complex, distinctive adventure titles throughout the 1990s. The company was founded in 1989 by Bob Bates and Mike Verdu after the end of Infocom. Their goal was to design interactive fiction in the Infocom tradition. Their first products were all illustrated text adventures, some of them designed by Infocom veteran Steve Meretzky.

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  • Legend Entertainment war eine von Bob Bates und Michael Verdu im Jahr 1989 gegründete Spielefirma, die nach dem Untergang von Infocom versuchte, das angeschlagene Textadventure-Genre mit Grafikelementen zu beleben. Einige der Entwickler wie Steve Meretzky arbeiteten vorher bei Infocom. Später entwickelte Legend auch 3D-Spiele wie das in Egoperspektive gehaltene Wheel of Time, das auf der gleichnamigen Fantasy-Romanserie von Robert Jordan basiert. Legends letzter Titel, das im Auftrag von Epic Games entwickelte Unreal II: The Awakening war nicht sehr erfolgreich und so wurde das 1998 von GT Interactive aufgekaufte Studio 2003 vom letzten Eigentümer Atari geschlossen. Die kleine Firma hat einige erwähnenswerte Spiele entwickelt, die nachfolgend aufgelistet werden. Viele der Spiele waren Adaptionen von Büchern. Die Gateway-Spiele basieren z. B. auf Büchern von Frederik Pohl, Death Gate und Shannara spielen ebenfalls in recht bekannten Universen aus Buch-Serien.
  • Legend Entertainment was an American developer of computer games, best known for their complex, distinctive adventure titles throughout the 1990s. The company was founded in 1989 by Bob Bates and Mike Verdu after the end of Infocom. Their goal was to design interactive fiction in the Infocom tradition. Their first products were all illustrated text adventures, some of them designed by Infocom veteran Steve Meretzky. Starting in 1993, they switched to a new development system for graphic-only adventures. Several of their adventure games were based on book licenses, including Frederik Pohl's Gateway, Terry Brooks' Shannara, Spider Robinson's Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, Piers Anthony's Xanth, and Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's The Death Gate Cycle. The company was acquired by GT Interactive in 1998 and began changing their focus to action games. They developed a first-person shooter based on Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time and finished the development of the second part in the Unreal series in 2002. Late in 2003, they released a free expansion for Unreal II, known as XMP. In 1999, GT Interactive was purchased outright by Infogrames, who later acquired and rebranded themselves as Atari. On Friday, January 16, 2004, Legend Entertainment was shut down. A brief press release from Atari cites that it was "purely a business decision", and that "Legend had recently completed its only current project and had no new projects in the pipeline". Sources close to the company state that Legend was in fact working on a new project, though it has not been officially confirmed. Fan reaction to Atari's decision has been rather sour, prompting the creation of a petition demanding that Atari continue to support Legend's games, among other things. It is unknown what further action, if any, Atari plans to take in this matter.
  • Legend Entertainment était un studio de développement de jeux vidéo créé en 1989 par Bob Bates et Mike Verdu. En 1998, la compagnie est rachetée par GT Interactive, qui est racheté en 1999 par Infogrames. L'entreprise à pour objectif de créer des jeux centrés sur des narrations interactives, et se spécialisait dans les jeux d'aventures illustrés en mode texte. De nombreux jeux étaient alors sous licence et basés sur des romans. Après l'acquisition de la compagnie en 1998, GT Interactive, alors éditeur historique des jeux de tir réoriente la compagnie qui produit Wheel of Time sur le moteur UnrealEngine, qui sort en 1999. A partir de 2001 et jusqu'à 2002, le studio est associé à Epic Games pour produire Unreal II. En 2003, une extension multijoueur, XMP, est publiée gratuitement. Le 16 janvier 2004, Atari, nouveau nom d'Infogrames, annonce la fermeture définitive de Legend Entertainment et le licenciement de tous ses employés. Il n'y eut plus de maintien des anciens jeux de la compagnie, ce qui fit s'élever des critiques.
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  • Legend Entertainment war eine von Bob Bates und Michael Verdu im Jahr 1989 gegründete Spielefirma, die nach dem Untergang von Infocom versuchte, das angeschlagene Textadventure-Genre mit Grafikelementen zu beleben. Einige der Entwickler wie Steve Meretzky arbeiteten vorher bei Infocom. Später entwickelte Legend auch 3D-Spiele wie das in Egoperspektive gehaltene Wheel of Time, das auf der gleichnamigen Fantasy-Romanserie von Robert Jordan basiert.
  • Legend Entertainment was an American developer of computer games, best known for their complex, distinctive adventure titles throughout the 1990s. The company was founded in 1989 by Bob Bates and Mike Verdu after the end of Infocom. Their goal was to design interactive fiction in the Infocom tradition. Their first products were all illustrated text adventures, some of them designed by Infocom veteran Steve Meretzky.
  • Legend Entertainment était un studio de développement de jeux vidéo créé en 1989 par Bob Bates et Mike Verdu. En 1998, la compagnie est rachetée par GT Interactive, qui est racheté en 1999 par Infogrames. L'entreprise à pour objectif de créer des jeux centrés sur des narrations interactives, et se spécialisait dans les jeux d'aventures illustrés en mode texte. De nombreux jeux étaient alors sous licence et basés sur des romans.
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