Legend: Hand of God (Game)

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## System requirements

CPU: 2GHz; RAM: 1024MB; Graphics Card: 256MB; Storage: 4.5GB

 *"Legend: Hand of God"* is an Isometric Action-RPG released in 2007 by Master Creating.

## Story

The main hero Targon is about to be accepted as an adept into the *Order of the Holy Flame*. But during the night before his initiation, the *Eternal Flame* goes out and the land of Aris is once again haunted by demons. Only through the so-called *Hand of God* is it possible to defeat the intruders and lock the portal.

## Features

Legend is characterized by its "Cinematic Combat System", a feature that enables realistic 3D fights. The mouse pointer was designed as a light elf, which gives the player tips and also serves as a light source in dark areas. The actress Cosma Shiva Hagen, who is modeled after the elf, provides the voice of the elf. She is also featured on the game on packaging.

## Collector's Edition

A Collector's Edition of Legend: Hand of God was also released parallel to the game. In addition to the PC game, the packaging - in special book form - included a soundtrack, the game's novel, an audio book, an art book and a tattoo of the game logo.

## Browser Game

Master Creating published a spin-off on March 6, 2008 in the form of a browser game, which was called "Legend" until September 2009. The name was changed in 2009, after the separation from the developer Master Creating, it has been under the new name "Tanoth" from Gameforge AG in several languages ​​- including German (Tanoth.de), English, French, Spanish - provided and further developed. It was free to play, but, as is usual in the genre, it could also be accelerated by buying so-called blood stones. For example, more adventures per day were possible.

The game was heavily expanded for the first time in early 2009. There has been an alchemist since then, and you had the option of going into dungeons to find new items or gold. Furthermore, small specials had been built in; So, you got bonus attributes depending on the amount or number of hours worked, the adventures contested, the level of the dungeons, the level of the hero, recruited friends and won battles. The higher the level or number, the more bonus attributes one got for the successes achieved.

The game was discontinued on July 31, 2020 and the servers were permanently taken offline.

## Derivative Works

### Books

In 2007 a novel by Panini Verlag with the title "Legend: Hand of God: Demon Storm" was published. This tells the history of the PC game. An audio book on audio CD is also available.

### Movie

In 2007 director Uwe Boll secured the film rights to Legend and originally announced that shooting would start in 2008. Boll praised the game's "dark atmosphere and his very own kind of fantasy". The budget was set to 40 million dollars.  Apart from the announcement of the film, nothing has happened thus far.

## In the Press

* GameStar, Patrick C. Lück: “Not every new game needs unusual ideas to be good. Sometimes it is enough to carefully implement the strengths of old classics in a contemporary way. Legend manages it. (...) Then why is it not enough in terms of valuation in top regions? Well, if you hardly have any new ideas, then it should have been a little more of the rest: more quests, more variety, more story, more items. "(79 percent fun)
* PC Powerplay, David Bergmann: "Legend is fun because killing monsters is quick and easy - and because collecting new items doesn’t miss its notorious addictive effect." (69 percent)
* PC Games: "Great lighting effects and plastic textures in caves, (...) smoothly animated fights, (...) irrelevant story, short playing time" (69 percent)

## Web links

* Official website of the game
* Legend Hand of God on MobyGames
* German fan site

## Sources

1. ↑ Hand-of-God-612886 / Uwe Boll secures rights to Legend: Hand of God. On: pcgames.de, accessed on June 3, 2012.