On the other hand, Hooked Gamers obviously enjoyed it, wth a score of 8.5/10: When you do progress far enough, the game's "military advancement" tech tree automatically goes up by one level and all your units - existing units included - are upgraded to more a powerful class, while the impossible armies now suddenly have more manageable stats. Many provinces are defended by "impossible" strength armies that have highly inflated stats, making them unbeatable until you've progressed through enough storyline quests to be permitted to fight them. There are a few instances where a quest can be completed by taking over a few provinces in any order as long as you defeat the quest objective's army, but the overworld is largely reduced to a visual representation of getting from target to target for progression's sake. In many cases, progress is made by simply walking from battle to battle without really having any choice where you want to strike next. What say you? A linear, shallow campaign and underdeveloped tactical battles make this fantasy game fade into history: 4/8ĭestructoid also notes a linear campaign and combat issues, for a score of 7/10: The Not So Good: Campaign map mode features entirely scripted pre-built mandatory missions and no kingdom management, tedious story-based quests, chaotic battles leave little room for tactics, terrible interface, superficial and limited diplomatic options, dim AI, odd tactical map design, no multiplayer, severe performance issues for some The Good: Magic and monsters make tactical battles marginally more interesting, forging items is neat, nice graphics Here's a trio of King Arthur II reviews, with a wide spread of results. I play games to be part of the story, not a silent observer. Don't get me wrong, the writing is decent and very descriptive, but if I wanted to listen to a fantasy audio book, I would go download A Game of Thrones. After each scene, you are asked to make a decision: do you talk to the hermit druid or the pious monk? Do you attack an enemy encampment from the front or the rear? Each decision you make takes the narrative in a (very slightly) different direction and every so often it ends in a real battle. A large portion of the game consists of moving your hero to a scroll icon on the map and listening to a gravelly-voiced man lead you through an adventure story.
Neocore took that inspiration a bit literally, as King Arthur 2 is basically a computerize version of those books.
Remember the "choose your own adventure" line of books? Many RPG developers would credit them as one of the sources of modern RPG storytelling. King Arthur II continues to take a beating in reviews with Game Over's critique resulting in a score of 65%:
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