Dragon Riders: Chronicles of Pern

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Dragon Riders: Chronicles of Pern
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Developer(s) Ubi Studios UK
Publisher(s) Ubi Soft
Designer(s) Oliver Sykes
Series Dragonriders of Pern
Platform(s) Dreamcast, Windows
ReleaseDreamcast
  • NA: August 8, 2001
  • PAL: February 8, 2002
PC
  • NA: August 12, 2001
Genre(s) Adventure
Mode(s) Single-player

Dragon Riders: Chronicles of Pern is an adventure game published by Ubi Soft in 2001.

Contents

The game takes place on the fictional planet Pern created by science fiction writer Anne McCaffrey for her Dragonriders of Pern series of novels. The story, divided into four chapters, follows the dragonrider D'kor who, with the help of his dragon Zenth, searches for girls to be candidates for Impressing a new young gold dragon. Various side-plots are developed throughout the game including a bit of intrigue involving an epidemic sickness that is somewhat reminiscent of the storyline in McCaffrey's novel Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern . The game contains over 120 locations on three continents. The player interacts and speaks with over 170 characters.

Critical reception

The game received "generally unfavorable reviews" on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [1] [2] The initial version also caused performance problems for users with Pentium 4 processors until a patch was released. [11]

Several sites reviewed the PC version more positively, particularly praising the story. Games Domain called it "an absolute must for fans of the series – it's as engrossing and complex as the best of Anne McCaffrey's novels, and as a stand-alone story, it's fun and well worth it". [12] Quandary said: "It's an absorbing adventure-cum-interactive story with a lot of people to converse with, a lot of good deeds to do, and an arch baddie to expose". [13] The Dreamcast version was better received than the PC version, with GameSpot saying: "Dragonriders is hardly a terrible game, but it has its share of issues and won't appeal to a large group of gamers". [4]

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