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King Arthur: The Role-Playing Wargame

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8.5 User Score:

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Game Info

Publisher: Neocore Games

Developer: Neocore Games

Genre(s): Real-Time Strategy, Role-Playing Game

Players: 1

ESRB Rating: RP (Rating Pending)

Release Date: November 24, 2009

Summary

Welcome to the lost age of chivalry, where magic and myth is alive, and you are destined to be one of the living legends: Arthur, the son of Uther Pendragon, the Once and Future King of the prophecies. Fulfill your destiny and claim your rightful place on the throne of Britannia. Recruit fabled knights to your Round Table: send them to adventures or battles, let them gather knowledge and artifacts, see how they become the most powerful heroes of the realm. Build the majestic Camelot, but beware: there will be enemies, both mortal and otherworldly that will try to destroy you. Send your heroes and their followers to battle with legendary warriors and monsters and see how the folk of the faeries and the saints set against wizards and evil knights. [Neocore]

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What The Critics Said

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Cheat Code Central

Though the extreme difficulty curve gives us some pause, King Arthur is an easy title to recommend. All of the various elements come together nicely with a gorgeous and stylish presentation.

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PC Gamer

A supreme strategy game, rich with incident and detail. Finally some worthy competition for the Total War series. [Mar 2010, p.76]

Gamers.at

King Arthur - The Roleplaying Wargame is a typical turn based strategy game with magic and role-playing elements.

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GameStar

Camelot instead of Washington, Excalibur instead of muskets and the Round Table instead of Founding Fathers. Lots of ideas taken straight from the Total War series and lots of good own ones, too. If you like to enable more and more things in a game instead of being shown everything at once, this is a game for you. It’s not a game worthy for a King yet, but more than worthy for a Prince.

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HellBored

King Arthur is the kind of title big game companies just don’t make anymore. Challenging, ambitious and quirky, this is certainly a game that deserves a look, particularly if Neocore continue the fine job they’re doing with addressing a few of the game’s issues.

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AceGamez

There’s allot I like about the game, it looks pleasing to the eye, sound and music is of a consistently high standard and there are some features that prevent the whole thing from feeling like a tired retread of other games before it. As a hybrid however it occasionally missteps and fails to fully succeed in blending two different types of genre’s into one cohesive whole.

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ImpulseGamer

Sound in the game is superbly done, the music sound track fits the look and feel of the game. With sweeping grand music and drumming beats fit for the grand epic adventure that the game is. So too is the voice acting, with flair and conviction and an earnest truth ringing in the words.

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ZTGameDomain

King Arthur is a PC gamers, game. It expects you to not be a brain-dead gamer and gives you a game that will challenge you on that level.

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Eurogamer Portugal

King Arthur: The Role-Playing Wargame is one of those games that are close to be a main feature, but some problems and errors drop that ambition to the ground.

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Strategy Informer

The consistency in design and reverence for the subject matter is King Arthur’s greatest strength. Too often war games of this persuasion end up as dry, hardcore affairs that only the slimmest of niche audiences can appreciate. Neocore, although biting off a little more than it can chew, has provided an experience that positively oozes with atmosphere and challenge, yet all the while catering to those that spend twelve hours a day devising battlefield plans - and the other twelve reading the Art of War.

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Absolute Games

Pretty graphics, solid gameplay, a well-developed setting – Neocore Games hit a bull’s-eye. Despite some rough edges and a tacked-on multiplayer, King Arthur is much more interesting than Neocore’s previous effort and head-and-shoulders above Warhammer: Mark of Chaos.

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Computer Games Online RO

Loses a few points in the strategy department, but makes up for them in atmosphere, one in which I’m sure Uther Pendragon himself would have felt quite at home. On my part, I would have loved a deeper economic system and a better unit balance during the battles, but on the other hand, I was pleased by the character complexity and the RPG elements.

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SpazioGames

A nice blend of strategy and RPG, this King Arthur delivers good fun. It won't match the Total War absolute RTS perfectionism, neither the depth of real RPG, but it's still an original and entertaining title.

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Multiplayer.it

A well executed mix between a Total War series kind of strategy and a role playing game. A too heavy difficult level and some unbalanced units keep the game away from better scores.

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GameSpot

Arthurian role playing is superior to the hit-and-miss strategizing in this hybrid epic about legendary Britain.

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PC PowerPlay

Full of promise, but let down by unfortunate control and balance issues. [Mar 2010, p.73]

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 8.5 (out of 10) based on 43 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

James M gave it a9:
Very surprised by the current metascore for this game which prompted me to chime in with my $0.02. I'd personally rate this game a 9.0 for it's superb gameplay, graphics, & sounds/music combo. When it was released to the public, it had bugs causing crashes, and several other gameplay issues - all of which were quickly fixed with 2 recent patches. Fortunately, i just recently purchased the game, so i didn't have to deal with those issues myself. For those interested in fantasy/rpg/strategy/, you are missing out bigtime if you don't give this game a chance if basing it on it's current metascore of 79! This is my first time posting here, and was inspired to do so because of the terrible score it received! A complete disservice to a great game!

Mark C gave it a10:
THE competition for Total War, to be brutally honest, they way TW is going at the moment this ones got the edge. Beautiful to look at, great campaign, great battles, very well woven in with a storyline that surprisingly i actually love. Only downside is that there are often little mistakes in grammer and spelling but i think they deserve to be let off for that because its a brilliant game.

Amon B gave it a9:
Text-based adventures, yeah! Nowadays when I read 'RPG elements' it usually means you can add points to skills and here we have some true oldschool stuff. Good ol' 'Defender of the Crown' breeze. I am surprised no one (haven't seen it in any review) mentioned HoMM series as an inspiration. Though the TW associations are clear, we have also one great stronghold to manage and build something in, armies turn idle without a hero.. I would give it 10 if not for jumping difficulty level and somewhat broken auto-resolve, but that's me.

Jean-Michel H gave it a3:
I bought this game on steam and I find it pretty dull. 1) The turn based gameplay is confusing and the graphics aren't even that good. 2) The text based quests are just cheap - haven't played a text based adventure since the apple IIe... so the roleplaying / adventure part is pretty limited. 3) The game battles aren't great either : controls are obnoxious. Why should you have to fight with the controls? Plus I understand that having plenty of tiny soldiers makes for epic battles, but I'll trade it for the simplicity and fun of warcraft III or starcraft any day. This game could have been a complete hit if it had an adventure and tactical mode that would be as immersive as dune (the first opus, remember?), and a battle mode as entertaining as warcraft III or even command & conquer : unfortunately it has neither and the result is a big disappointment. Nice try though, maybe next time...

Daniel Y gave it a10:
Great game with lots of depth and a challenging difficulty level. Love the RPG and RTS combination. Completely hooked!

Doug H gave it a9:
A very fun game, easy to recommend to anyone with some strategy game experience (no, a console game is not a strategy game). Many hours of fun to be had. Beautiful atmosphere, really brings the legends of Arthur to life. Sadly, archers are wildly overpowered and armies are terribly slow to recover troops if you don't use the machinegun archer exploit. Fantastic spell system, but battles can start to feel a bit sameish and quests can be cryptic - my least favourite was the one with a time limit that wasn't specified. Buy it and love it, but needs balancing to be really great.

Nathan gave it a10:
The fantasy RTS with Total War system that I was waiting for

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