Chaos Legion (AKA: カオス レギオン) is a fantasy type of third-person, hack & slash video game originally released for PlayStation 2 console, was developed and published by Capcom from Japan in 2003, then ported to Windows platform by MiCROViSiON in the same year. It is loosely based on the light novel series of the same name written by Tow Ubukata in 2002.

As an overlooked action adventure/RPG video game with a heavy emphasis on melee combat gameplay, Chaos Legion is very different from Capcom’s other games, because instead of fighting alone on the battlefield, player can call upon their own troops to fight against the countless attacking beasts. Besides, players will be attracted by the game’s magnificent CG animations, exquisite graphics and sound effects, distinctive battle styles, highly playable game systems, and exciting battle scenes.

Under the framework of “action adventure”, Chaos Legion offers a number of innovations that seem avant-garde even today. The legion summoning feature is the core of the entire game, and player can equip or summon seven legionnaires with different abilities and fighting styles. And it is commendable that this game also combines the revolutionary system of legionary combat with the classic mode of single-player assault.

As a standard action-adventure game, Chaos Legion was influenced in many ways by Dynasty Warriors. In terms of the combat system, its brave attempt was obviously well thought out, and its rich and worth studying variety of combat elements intertwined with the game’s theme is exceptional. The Gothic style of game background and plot settings made Chaos Legion stand out from the rest of the action games of the time. And its combat system is ingenious and creative, perfectly illustrating the game’s “legion combat” theme.

However, Chaos Legion was not well received by the industry press at launch, being widely regarded as “repetitive maps” and “redundant combat”, and even branded as a “half-baked” and “money-grubbing game”. Interestingly, despite the poor reviews it received in the press in general (especially for the PC edition), it became an iconic collective memory among the gamer community of the era.

There’s no denying that Chaos Legion does have some issues with the base experience, but it was one of the pioneers in porting home console games to the PC. Additionally, there were very few native “3D action games” in the same genre on the PC platform at that time, so it became the quintessential image of “3D action game” in the minds of many gamers at this particular time. Unfortunately, eventually Capcom abandoned this game as well, focusing on their other more well-received games like Devil May Cry and Monster Hunter series.

// Fan Made Demo Video //

// System Requirements //

• DirectX End-User Runtime Offline Setup (June 2010, DXSETUP)
• Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Packages

// Edition Statement //

AppNee provides the Chaos Legion multilingual full installers and patches for Windows, and ROM file for PlayStation 2.

The PC version features various difficulty and gameplay changes, but has many issues, such as Disc check DRM issues, texture corruption issues on modern video cards, frequent crashes during loading screens on Windows 7+, etc. That’s why there are official patches and third-party fixes.

// Prompts //

• The setup for Windows requires to use the No-CD patch.
• The Update Patch is only for the 2 CD-ROM releases.

// Download URLs //

Region	Version	Download	Size
for Windows
EU	v1.03		803 MB
for PlayStation 2
EU	n/a		1.63 GB
No-CD Patches
EN	v1.03		702 KB
	v1.1		1.81 KB
Fixed EXE (Third-party)
EN	v1.1		704 KB
Update Patch (Official)
EN	v1.03		2.83 MB

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