Dragon's Lair (Blu-ray) | 
 enlarge | From: Warner Bros
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
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Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 3944
Genre: Adventure Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Blu-ray
Operating System: Playstation 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.4 x 0.5
MPN: 99102
UPC: 624719991024
EAN: 0624719991024
ASIN: B000IMUYRE
Release Date: April 30, 2007
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| Features:
| • | Become Dirk The Daring, a brave but bumbling knight is out to save Princess Daphne - again | | • | Control Dirk as he fights through Mordroc's castle and its many dangers | | • | New characters combine with advanced cel-shaded graphics for a bigger, better adventure | | • | Digitally restored and enhanced with 5.1 Surround Sound | | • | Features interviews with original creator Don Bluth, Gary Goldman and Rick Dyer |
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Product Description
Dragon's Lair HD delivers the fun, tongue-in-cheek medieval adventure that made the original arcade games a hit. The Dragon's Lair games were the first fully-animated arcade games, and were favorites in the 1980s. Now the funny, fast action gaming experience is available on your Playstation 3, with the added bonus of HD technology. Sharper images, DVD-style bonuses and no more annoying pauses at decision points - all making a classic game even better. Comes with full-length visual commentary on the game All special features presented in 1080p
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| Customer Reviews: Read 24 more reviews...
 PS3 Hit and Miss October 17, 2008
Stephen M. Sturgeon (Indianapolis, IN United States)
I have to say, the problems people state about playing it on their PS3 are valid. But it seems to be a hit and miss problem. I played this on my father's PS3 and it had that problem of hitting a particular scene and then freezing. I brought it home and played it on my own PS3 and it worked smoothly with not so much as a long pause between loading chapters. But hit and miss notwithstanding, the fact that this glitch appears on any of the PS3's (which by all rights should be playing it better than any stand alone player with all it's updating abilities) necessarily causes me to drop the star rating.
The other thing is that, whether you play it on Arcade or Home mode, it skips randomly around the scenes every time you die. Granted, once you've gone through all of them once, it will play the ones you died on in order until you pass them. But just the fact that it has the randomness, no matter what setting you put it on, to begin with just ruins the flow of the game and makes it really irksome until you get to the point where you're actually playing the game.
That said, once you get around to playing the game proper, and once you find a system that it works well on, this is a pretty fun game. I never got a chance to play it in the arcades back in the day. But being able to play it now shows how innovative this was at the time. Instead of controlling digital sprites, you (not so much as control as influence) fully animated cartoon characters. While the guessing and timing of when to press what button when can get aggravating at times, it's also rewarding when you finally figure it out.
Also, the graphics are amazing. There's a little featurette that compares the graphics of several versions (including the laserdisc and DVD versions). This is clearly the most polished this game has ever been.
So to break it all down, great game, awesome graphics, great transfer...when it works. That's the biggest strike. It simply doesn't work dependably. You may have a PS3 or other Blu Ray player that it works fine on. You might get it and find that it's glitchy at best. Given that kind of hit and miss chance of whether or not it will work, I simply can't recommend this product.
 Not Compatible With PS3 September 27, 2008
Jang D. Kim
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
When it works, this game looks wonderful. However, it simply does not work on a PS3. I don't know what the performance is like on other blu-ray devices, but if you have a PS3, do not buy this product.
So many glitches and no maney back!!! September 12, 2008
Antonio Micaroni (Brazil)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This product was impossible to play in my PS3 ...there are a lot of glitches...no support from the supplier...and NO money back guarantee.
not good on ps3 blue ray... August 29, 2008
Jason Thomas (Chicago)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Will not play on ps3 blueray player. I don't know if any one wrote a review on that fact. I don't think I saw one when I went to buy it.
Do NOT buy if you plan to use the PS3 to play. August 16, 2008
Clayton Yantis
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Well I have been a avid fan of Dragon's Lair since I was a kid. The game simply won't play in the Playstation 3 Console due to software problems. Everything else that I use for my system works perfectly but for some reason the software between the system and game conflicts and results in lag time when you need to make a move.
I also looked everywhere for some type of tech support thinking that maybe there was a patch or update to my PS3 but there was nothing.
Only buy this game if you plan to use it on a standalone blu-ray player.
I'm highly disappointed I can't enjoy the game. From what I saw of the graphics the game is beautiful.
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