Gildor
March 22nd, 2006, 08:22 AM
I feel the need to spread news of this most wonderful game!
It firstly grabbed my attention by the prospect of a free demo which can be found at this site http://www.taleworlds.com/
Under these conditions you can get the oppurtunity to play up to level 6, in what can only be described as gaming ecstasy!
Its essentially a simple Medieval hack and slash game (at this early stage anyway), although it has a good deal more to offer. Its a fully realised world, has effortless 3D characters, some amazing fighting (On Horseback, or on foot, or even fighhting over castle walls!) some of the details on the horses for instance are incredible.
A minor joy (of many) in the game is being to able to master your lance to a point where you can send an enemy horse (and rider) rolling and screaming to the floor in agony from one pass. Its just a perfection of game mechanics.
While the missions and so on in the standard version you get are fairly linear and straightforward (Kill raiders, rasie troops, capture nobleman etc) its an addiction that rises to high levels. You gain Xp by killing people or completing quests, this pursuit can eventually leads to creating very high level characters, which kick ass!!!!
And the fun doesn't stop, once this type of game wears you down, theres a whole host of Mods that people have made, as I write this there is a divine Lord of the Rings game called 'Last days' (50 knights of Dol Amroth charging across the plain! Yipeeeeeee), an undead one, the crusades, Norman invasion, WW2, pirates ... Loads simply!!! And all of them very well made and scripted!
And the amazing thing is this game isn't finshed yet, its on version 0.731 :eek:
Anywho, try the demo as its free, then buy the game and get completetly hooked and loose you life to its irresistible charm.
(These screenshots are from the Lotr's mod, as my mounted knights were destroying a host of Mordor with glorious ease, the quality is better than showed, but the screenshots may not portray it. Though the bottom one shows me with a blade of westernesse coated with blood, this usually happens after slicing open about a dozen orcs)
http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/1413/grabby94bq.th.jpg (http://img83.imageshack.us/my.php?image=grabby94bq.jpg)
http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/2995/grabby15in.th.jpg (http://img86.imageshack.us/my.php?image=grabby15in.jpg)
http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/1423/grabby180de.th.jpg (http://img106.imageshack.us/my.php?image=grabby180de.jpg)
http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/5534/grabby25qn.th.jpg (http://img73.imageshack.us/my.php?image=grabby25qn.jpg)
http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/1630/grabby108fg.th.jpg (http://img73.imageshack.us/my.php?image=grabby108fg.jpg)
It firstly grabbed my attention by the prospect of a free demo which can be found at this site http://www.taleworlds.com/
Under these conditions you can get the oppurtunity to play up to level 6, in what can only be described as gaming ecstasy!
Its essentially a simple Medieval hack and slash game (at this early stage anyway), although it has a good deal more to offer. Its a fully realised world, has effortless 3D characters, some amazing fighting (On Horseback, or on foot, or even fighhting over castle walls!) some of the details on the horses for instance are incredible.
A minor joy (of many) in the game is being to able to master your lance to a point where you can send an enemy horse (and rider) rolling and screaming to the floor in agony from one pass. Its just a perfection of game mechanics.
While the missions and so on in the standard version you get are fairly linear and straightforward (Kill raiders, rasie troops, capture nobleman etc) its an addiction that rises to high levels. You gain Xp by killing people or completing quests, this pursuit can eventually leads to creating very high level characters, which kick ass!!!!
And the fun doesn't stop, once this type of game wears you down, theres a whole host of Mods that people have made, as I write this there is a divine Lord of the Rings game called 'Last days' (50 knights of Dol Amroth charging across the plain! Yipeeeeeee), an undead one, the crusades, Norman invasion, WW2, pirates ... Loads simply!!! And all of them very well made and scripted!
And the amazing thing is this game isn't finshed yet, its on version 0.731 :eek:
Anywho, try the demo as its free, then buy the game and get completetly hooked and loose you life to its irresistible charm.
(These screenshots are from the Lotr's mod, as my mounted knights were destroying a host of Mordor with glorious ease, the quality is better than showed, but the screenshots may not portray it. Though the bottom one shows me with a blade of westernesse coated with blood, this usually happens after slicing open about a dozen orcs)
http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/1413/grabby94bq.th.jpg (http://img83.imageshack.us/my.php?image=grabby94bq.jpg)
http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/2995/grabby15in.th.jpg (http://img86.imageshack.us/my.php?image=grabby15in.jpg)
http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/1423/grabby180de.th.jpg (http://img106.imageshack.us/my.php?image=grabby180de.jpg)
http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/5534/grabby25qn.th.jpg (http://img73.imageshack.us/my.php?image=grabby25qn.jpg)
http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/1630/grabby108fg.th.jpg (http://img73.imageshack.us/my.php?image=grabby108fg.jpg)