"Die by the Sword" is no doubt a quality game, or rather, it _was_ a quality game back in the day. It definitely has a lot of cool and innovative concepts as well as a great feeling and a brutal, dark medieval look. So what brings this game down? All the technical issues it has, which are pretty severe. I've played loads of GOG.com releases and have rarely run into any problems, at least no game-breaking ones. Sadly, this one is full of them. You simply have to look through the forum to see that it has a bunch of "unsolved" issues, which is very disappointing to say the least. Thus, I can't give this game a higher score than this, even though I would have liked to.