Dungeons and Dragons: Heroes

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Dungeons and Dragons: Heroes is a third person RPG videogame released by Atari for the Xbox in 2003. Rated T by the ESRB, it is set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe, based of the roleplaying game of the same name. The game mechanics are heavily reliant on the "standard" roleplaying game rules.

This game has the look and feel of the games in the Baldur's Gate series, however, there are some notable differences:

In this game the characters cannot jump and they are unable to fall off ledges in any portion of the game.
Characters may instantly "continue" from any point after dying by using Raise Dead amulets (characters are restored with full HP and MP).
All abilities and characters are visible from the start (i.e. one can see all abilities from which they are able to choose later).
Each character begins with an "Ancestral Weapon" that they cannot drop or otherwise discard. As characters collect soul shards, their Ancestral Weapon grows in power (for every 5 shards it gains +1). Ancestral Weapons start at +1 and since there are only 20 shards, they may grow to at most +5.
This game supports 4 players instead of the limit of 2 commonly supported by Baldur's Gate.