Posted March 14, 2010
Betrayal at Krondor (BaK) was an original story-telling based RPG with a huge open free world to explore. It was a great success. Later on Return To Krondor (RtK) was released with up-to-date graphics (I'll not go into the politics of Betrayal In Antara and how RtK moved back to Sierra and the issues with Raymond E. Feist).
This game is a great game although most prefer BaK a little better because for its time it was a much bigger game and had so many more features. For someone playing now, its harder getting into BaK because the graphics are so old. So RtK is a good choice.
Like BaK, it the game is very story driven, the music immersive and lots of interesting places to see and explore. The turn-based combat system is retained and I enjoyed the game such that I played it until the end.
The problem with RtK is that the camera angles are sometimes a bit poor, the character you are controlling moving across the screen is a little slow and that some of the in-game mini-games you need to play to beat the game are time-sensitive like playing an action game.
But there is a strong 'feel' to the game like BaK when you play, e.g. when you walk down the side streets late at night and being attacked.
Overall a great game and well worth getting.
I sold my original copy and could not find a copy for a long time. Then they are being sold through online retailers a few weeks before appearing on GOG and I bought a copy thinking that it was my last chance to get a copy. Now its on GOG I am gutted as I really rather have a GOG version, but at the moment I can't justify buying another copy after having bought one only a month ago.
This game is a great game although most prefer BaK a little better because for its time it was a much bigger game and had so many more features. For someone playing now, its harder getting into BaK because the graphics are so old. So RtK is a good choice.
Like BaK, it the game is very story driven, the music immersive and lots of interesting places to see and explore. The turn-based combat system is retained and I enjoyed the game such that I played it until the end.
The problem with RtK is that the camera angles are sometimes a bit poor, the character you are controlling moving across the screen is a little slow and that some of the in-game mini-games you need to play to beat the game are time-sensitive like playing an action game.
But there is a strong 'feel' to the game like BaK when you play, e.g. when you walk down the side streets late at night and being attacked.
Overall a great game and well worth getting.
I sold my original copy and could not find a copy for a long time. Then they are being sold through online retailers a few weeks before appearing on GOG and I bought a copy thinking that it was my last chance to get a copy. Now its on GOG I am gutted as I really rather have a GOG version, but at the moment I can't justify buying another copy after having bought one only a month ago.