Betrayal At Krondor Download (1993 Role playing Game)

Based on Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar saga (and co-written with Feist himself) is Betrayal At Krondor, a new tale in the Riftwar universe.

The story begins as Gorath, a moredhel (dark elf) renegade, who intended to warn the people of Krondor of the upcoming moredhel invasion, is attacked by an assassin. Locklear, a nobleman who serves the crown of Krondor, and a young magician named Owyn decide to accompany Gorath to Krondor, where they'll have to think of a plan to stop the moredhel leader Delekhan.

Exploration in a 3D world and turn-based combat complement the story, which is divided up into nine chapters. Each chapter has a goal to achieve before moving on to the next chapter, but how that goal is met is up to you.

Betrayal at Krondor is a fantasy adventure/role-playing game that takes place in the Midkemia world of the books by Raymond E. Feist. In fact, Feist was the leading director in the creation of the game. It came out with an amazing story, which will pull you deeper and deeper into the game as you progress.

When you start, you will see that Gorath, the elf-like Moredhel, and one of the leading persons in the game's story have been attacked by an assassin. Accompanied by Owyn (young scholar magician) and Locklear (noble warrior escorting Gorath), you will have to journey to the royal city of Krondor.

On your way you have to fight with the assassins who are constantly trying to kill you, and you meet different kinds of people, either on the roads or in the houses at the villages or towns. You can also explore the large world of the game. In the first chapter, there's no real need to go too far off the main goal - but you do have the freedom to go almost anywhere you want to.

There are many side-quests available, many of which continue from chapter to chapter. Often they can be solved only in the following chapters.

The abilities of the characters are not very impressive at the beginning, but as the game progresses, they become better with every action you perform. For example, successful hits or defensive actions in the battle will increase melee accuracy, crossbow accuracy, defense ability, strength and health points. Successfully picking locks will increase the lockpick ability, but even an unsuccessful attempt will increase it, albeit more slowly.

As the game continues, the story becomes larger and deeper with every chapter. It involves many aspects of the original books, such as the dreaded Valheru, the evil dragon riders who can be compared to the Atlanteans, the thieves' guild and the Upright Man who is the guild's leader. You'll even have the famous Jimmy the Hand, called James, joining you in some chapters. Which brings me to the next point of the game - you won't always be having the same party members along the way. They come and go as the story directs them to other tasks. However, you can meet them again in later chapters, still carrying all their equipment.

The combat system is fairly easy to understand, but it involves strategy at times. You can, for example, cast a spell that blinds the dangerous opponent's mage and attack the warriors in the meantime, while summoning creatures that will aid you in the next battle round.

The music in the game is really good, fitting the situations perfectly. Even the sounds are nicely done, although there aren't that many of them.

The weakest point of the game is the outdoor graphics, which look a little primitive and not very detailed. But that doesn't matter much, as the rest of the game is quite fun, so you'll quickly get used to them and even think they're quite good after a while.

All in all, this game really deserves its evaluation as the "Best Fantasy Role-Playing & Adventure Game of 1993" so be sure to try it out!

This is simply one of the best RPGs ever made. It features an outstanding plot, superb graphics(for the time), and the licensed character of the novelist Raymond E. Feist (someone there knows him?).

Anyway, as I said up there, the story is damn good, divided into "chapters" like a book... in fact this game has many similarities to a book, from the introduction to the excellent "book-like" descriptions wich divide chapters. Well, returning to the "story" stuff, it narrates the war beetween the northern elven and southern human region of the kingdom of midkemia, and the struggles of some heroes (guess who these heroes are? ^^) to stop it before it becomes too late to avoid a genocide.

This game has many subplots and subquests, and it is in fact possible to leave the "main road" and do what we please, until we're tired of our pilgrimmage in the large gameworld and we'll want to return to the main quest..finding out that we remember NOTHING about it..and this is, in fact, the only fault this game has: NO journal, you have to write it by yourself, like me, or to remember everything (in this case, you may be certain to be some sort of genius, since the informations you get in the game are a HUGE amount..but this may be seen by some as a decision of the programmers, to make the whole thing more realistic...

Technically the game features the FIRST Real-3D engine ever seen in a RPG (the one in the various Ultima Underworld is a fake 3D engine), of course it is nothing exceptional, but at least you can say "hey, I'm THERE!". Musics too are very good and never get tiring or annoying, plus the game has a very nice combat management and a finally ORIGINAL spell system..I was really getting tired of that mana stuff.

If you are a hardcore roleplayer, you can't avoid but to play this...

Note: I had some problems making this game run, since it requires 600KB of conventional memory (wich is NOT ram, to check your amount go to the DOS prompt and type "mem"), so if you aren't able to bring your comp to this amount, don't download this game..or download it and try to use its "make boot disk" feature. ;)

This game is said by many to be one of the best fantasy RPG's ever made. Raymond E. Feist the well known creator of the Riftwar saga worked closely with the production team ensuring a faithful reproduction of the world of Midkemia where this game takes place. I personally, hadn't read any of Feist's books before I played this game but this did not detract from my total enjoyment and immersion into the fantasy world of Midkemia and my total appreciation of this game.

You control three characters (together or alone at certain parts of the game) in their adventures around the land of Krondor: Seigneur Locklear, a citizen of Midkemia, his prisoner Gorath, a Moredhel elf and a young magician named Owyn Beleforte. Gameplay is of the standard RPG-style that will be familiar to fans of the genre, with a turn based system for combat and movement and multiple-choice options for conversational dialogue. The outstanding part of the game is the detail that has been implemented in the combat and stats system without making the system too unfriendly or cumbersome. All weapons and armor have damage stats which you will have to watch in order to prevent them from breaking but you have to avoid repairing too often for each time you do the max sturdiness of your item becomes slightly less. You will also have to carefully monitor your food reserves so that you don’t starve and take care that you don’t accidentally eat spoiled food lest you get poisoned. Combat takes place on a combat grid where you can take control of character movement and position which can often be crucially important to minimize the risk of harming characters on your own team e.g. with missile weapons.

Unlike many Dungeon hacks of this genre, a significant amount of adventuring in the game takes place outdoors and above ground, as your adventure takes you around different parts of the land of Krondor. This inevitably means it will be difficult for you to explore everything in the game and find all the cool bits of treasure. But, on the other hand, this isn't required or advisable as you can complete most of the important goals in the game by safely sticking to the main roads and paths without searching every shrub and digging up every grave on the wayside.

The graphics through most of the game is standard artist-rendered 2-D backgrounds with photo-manipulated foreground graphics overlaid on top. Basically most of the character graphics are compiled from images and video of actual real life actors in costume which at first can seem a little cheesy. But when you get increasing exposure to the impeccable consistency of the whole environment and the look and the culture of the world the quirky graphical style quickly grows on you. NPC's are likeable, believable and look as if they belong in the game world and the colours, sound and decorative graphics all contribute to one cohesive enjoyable pattern. As a result it doesn't take long before you come to regard Krondor as a believable land with great character.

I highly recommend this game for all fans of RPG's such as the Wizardry series or the Ishar trilogy. And to anyone who frequently plays hack and slash dungeon crawls, get this to see how a proper RPG setting ought to be constructed.

One of the best RPGs ever made, Betrayal at Krondor is a classic example of games that get rave reviews yet do poorly in stores (at least until it was re-released on CD-ROM). Flat "paper-doll" digitized graphics is just about the only criticism you can level at this classic, which features an excellent plot written by best-selling fantasy author Raymond Feist (who also had considerable input in the design process), memorable characters, cool spellcasting interface, and an abundance of optional sub-quests and riddle chests. Sierra made the game freeware in 1997 to promote their own sequel Betrayal at Antara (which, without Feist' s input, is a pale shadow of its predecessor). Suffice to say that noone can claim to be an old-time RPGer if they have never set foot in Krondor :)

Betrayal at Krondor is quite possibly one of the greatest RPG's ever, on any platform, period. It features excellent game mechanics, a good combat and magic system, and most importantly a storyline and dialogue written by the fantasy genre's most popular authors, Raymond E. Feist.

Feist was implicitly involved in the making of the game, and being an avid fantasy gamer himself, made sure that it was a game he'd like to play himself. Consequently, it offers one of the richest and most entertaining gaming experiences ever in an RPG.

If you're a fan of Feist's writing, you'll love the game even more, but it's not necessary to enjoy the game. Be warned that playing it may make you want to read everything Feist wrote, and that's a lot!

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