Dragon Riders: Chronicles of Pern

Dragon Riders: Chronicles of Pern

Developer(s)	Ubi Studios UK
Publisher(s)	Ubisoft
Designer(s)	Oliver Sykes
Platform(s)	Dreamcast, Windows
Release date(s)	Dreamcast ^NA August 9, 2001 ^PAL February 8, 2002 PC ^NA August 12, 2001
Genre(s)	Adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player

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.

The game did not sell well, and was derided both by the gaming community and fans of the series for inconsistencies, poor storyline, and poor gameplay.^[1]

Critical reception

The game has a Metacritic rating of 44% based on 7 critic reviews.^[2]

Yahoo! Games said "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."^[3] 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."^[4] GameSpot said "Not a good game. It takes the primary elements of the Pern novels and uses them to fashion a run-of-the-mill adventure game that offers very little actual adventure and too many frustrating mechanical issues."^[5] PC Gamer said "A tiny bit of truly awful combat has been thrown in when it should have been thrown out, and this may be the last third-person game in existence that doesn’t support the mouse in any way."^[6] IGN said "Too bad, as is, one of those lazy dragons needs to turn its fat ass around and blow some fire directly at the game from which it came, as a little smoldering action is the only salvation I can fathom for this beast. Steer clear, far clear."^[7] GameSpy said "A bad adventure game based on far better books. Go read them."^[8] Computer Gaming Magazine said "Only for blindly hardcore fans of Anne McCaffrey...Everyone else will find the entire experience tired and uninspiring."^[9]

References

External links

Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey

Pern Stories in Pern history Characters Locations

The Dragonriders of Pern trilogy	Dragonflight Dragonquest The White Dragon

The Harper Hall of Pern trilogy	Dragonsong Dragonsinger Dragondrums

Other novels	Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern Nerilka's Story Dragonsdawn The Renegades of Pern All the Weyrs of Pern The Dolphins of Pern Red Star Rising (aka Dragonseye) The Masterharper of Pern The Skies of Pern

By Anne and Todd McCaffrey	Dragon's Kin Dragon's Fire Dragon Harper Dragon's Time Sky Dragons

By Todd McCaffrey	Dragonsblood Dragonheart Dragongirl

Short story collections	Get Off the Unicorn The Girl Who Heard Dragons The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall A Gift of Dragons

Uncollected stories	"The Impression" (in The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern) "Beyond Between" (in Legends II)

Companion books	The Atlas of Pern by Karen Wynn Fonstad People of Pern by Robin Wood and Anne McCaffrey Dragonlover's Guide to Pern by Jody Lynn Nye and Anne McCaffrey Dragonharper (gamebook) by Jody Lynn Nye Dragonfire (gamebook) by Jody Lynn Nye

Games	Dragonriders of Pern (video game) Dragon Riders: Chronicles of Pern (video game) PernMUSH (role-playing game)

Related	Dragons Whers Impression Weyr Rukbat Between Oldtimers

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