Heath: The Unchosen Path

[Sisay]

The hefty pricetag of 10 euro (with free shipping, hurrah Play.com) finally convinced me it's time to get Bloodlines. I've been a bit reluctant to do that before even though I loved Arcanum given that the game doesn't even run on my current OS (Windows 2003 Server). In any case I browsed through their other summer sale games and noticed an action rpg I had never heard of, Heath: The Unchosen Path.

I did a fast search on Google and didn't come up with much, supposedly it's yet another (failed?) European attempt at cloning Diablo 2. There weren't any reviews on Gamerankings but the Gamespot reader scrore of 4.1 sounds rather promising. Here's a copy paste from the feature list on Play.com.

* Seizing and mysterious story development
* Unpredictable ending of the game
* 35 unique filled playing locations
* over 150 different kinds of NPC
* over 50 kinds of enemies
* about 30 quests, that can be solved in a different ways
* over 500 useful items
* beauty, individuality and style of the unique world of the GoldenLand
* rich role-system: 5 basic, 15 derived statistics
* greater amount of different skills and abilities
* individual abilities, which directly or indirectly influence upon style of passing the game
* highly developed magic system: 50 different spells, each has 3 levels, 14 magic skills
* translucent, completely realistic shades
* dynamic lightning
* a real positioning of the sound effects, based on the D.A.R.E. system
* multithreaded architecture

And last but not least, true innovashun!

"Does not work on Windows XP"

Now that I actually read the feature list, is Heath the UK name for Golden Land? I did kinda get the impression the developer is UK based (Golden Land is Russian?) but I could be wrong. Several ways to solve quests sounds nice, the rest doesn't exactly tell much. Unpredictable ending, what's that supposed to mean? Multiple endings or a (probably stupid) plot twist near the end?

So does anyone know anything about this game? Impressions? Worth 15 euros?

 

[kris]

Little question. Your location, does it imply you live in Kexholm?

 

[callehe]

... Gamespot reader scrore of 4.1 sounds rather promising

Um, 4.1 = bad bad score, most decent games get in the range of 7.5-9 at Gamespot. The game is probably crap.

 

[dipdipdip]

Here's a user review via GameFAQs. The guy gives it a 1/10.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin ... 71893.html

"So, whatever you do, don't buy this game. Even the subtitle warns you: this is a path you don't want to choose."

 

[Kraszu]

Heath is not Golen Land.

I got the game whit magazine long time age, there are few npc that got anything to say. I stopped plaing when i had to go somewhere but i couldn't klick on that place on world map :shock:. Game is rather dull.

 

[Visbhume]

is Heath the UK name for Golden Land?

I think GoldenLand is a sequel to Heath, but I'm not sure.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

* Unpredictable ending of the game

Generally if a game has an "unpredictable" ending, it means it's so crap that there's no way in hell you'd ever think they'd go for "that" ending and yet they do.

 

[undead dolphin hacker]

* Unpredictable ending of the game

lol.

* 35 unique filled playing locations

lol x2. Sounds like a porn ad.

 

[Norfleet]

I dunno, I always thought "unpredictable ending of game" meant that it would crash and corrupt your save files, thus ending your game unpredictably.

 

[LlamaGod]

THE CHOSEN ONE DOESNT CHOOSE ?

 

[Ap_Jolly]

"Unpredictable ending" as in "helping Killian save Junktown from Gizmo gives you a bad ending"?

 

[Atrokkus]

I think GoldenLand is a sequel to Heath, but I'm not sure.

You're utterly wrong.


I say this game requires one more feature:

- Uniquely filled-out chainmail-clad girls with huge boobs.

 

[voodoo1man]

Little question. Your location, does it imply you live in Kexholm?

Kexholm my ass, you Swedish barbarian. It's called Priozersk now. And if Sisay really is one of those Karelian nationalists, he can piss off and go back to Finland. If the Finns want Karelia back, they'll have to do what they originally did to get it, namely invade Russia.

PS - After GTA: San Andreas, I have a hard and fast rule: if there is no "sex minigame" on the feature list I am not buying the game.