King Arthur Review
The Short Version: King Arthur is a Role-playing Wargame that simulates perfectly whats its like be the Legend on a Kingdom Scale. Despite a few problems in the Real-Time Battles this is a great buy for any fan of the Total War Series and even manages to surpass segas efforts in many ways!
The Review:
What you’ll Like:
• The Campaign map is Beautifully done, presenting alot of information in a clear way.
• Excellent Graphics up close in the Real-Time Battles portion with minimum system spec’s.
• Adding Magic, RPG Quests and Loot for your General’s adds a Great New Element to the Battles.
• Great Replayability! Playing a Tyrannical, Rightful, Christian, Old Faith or a combination of two; unlocks new units, upgrades, and economic options. Add in Completing Quests in different ways through the chapters and you could lose weeks in this game!
What you’ll Hate:
• Poor Path-finding for Units in Close Combat.
• Real Time Battle Camera Controls are a bit awkward and Inverted.
• Sometimes Difficult to Distinguish between your units and your enemies.
• Lacking Diplomacy Options outside of Quests with Other Kingdoms (Rights of Passage).
Final Verdict:
8/10
Issue your own Final Score Above!
I FOUND IT!!!!!!!! I FINALLY FOUND THIS GAME! too bad my PC had to be taken in for repairs DX
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Underneath all the toilet humour and joking around, this is one of the most intelligent reviews I have seen of this fantastic game. It’s a shame the reviewer does not review games ina more serious way with this same presentation, because I really believe he could have another Gamespot or IGN on his hands with plenty of advertising dollars coming in!
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We’re here because we DON’T want anything like IGN…
THIS is what gamers want to see. We DON’T want ratings that only go from 8.5 to 10/10!
This “guy” does HONEST reviews!
WE WILL NOT SELL OUT TO CORPORATE!
ANGRY JOE FTW!!!!!
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Worth picking it up on steam for the midweek madness complete pack for $18.99 I’ll be getting it just as soon as the better half gets home with my car so I can go dump my monthly allotment of cash into my internet game buying account.
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You’re right, especially now that all the ‘things you won’t like’ listed in this review have been fixed with patches! Then when you add the great DLC’s they have released and an expansion coming soon that offers sandbox play and you have a total winner!
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I must say, I enjoy reading your blog. Maybe you could let me know how I can bookmark it ? I feel I should let you know I found your website through google.
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This game is awesome, what I really love is that they basically keep updating the game, since the review they made allot of progress.
I give it an 8/10 for the game and 10/10 for effort!
Empire: Total War should be sentenced to cleaning Louis XVI’s toilet for life (He loved going to the toilet and even received diplomas sitting on it).
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JOE you are my fucking hero man! THIS is the COOLEST site out there the Reviews are AMAZING the best was the NFS:SHIFT review i watched it almost 1000 times and i still fucking love it dude! You should make a review of Batman: Arkham Asylum because it’s a fucking good game man! I have an advice for you Try it out NOW! Please reply man!
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This game is excellent, however like you said Empire: Total War was unfinished. I downloaded Darth Mod Commander Edition and it really enhanced Empire: Total War as a game, I recommend it to all!
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The music is from the bulgarian game Knights of honor btw.
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Nice…. I will check it out when my pc FINALY lozes some games…. yeah im an addict.
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I don’t know about this one. The way it was presented kinda seems to be like Warcraft 3 but combined with the a Total War map system. I’m gonna stick with my Civilization IV and Starcraft for now than go be ambitious and try this one.
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great review and i love total war games but this one seems a bit childish . using magic in a war game sucks.
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This was a great review Joe. The Holy Grail scene was funny as all hell!
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Joe If I am sometime in USA how can find you telephone or adresss of your house
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Hey, don’t worry, I happen to know it like the back of my hand.
He lives at 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield, USA. His number is 555-0123.
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loved the part at 3:00… i am now hunting this game down like a fat man after a burito. mmmmmmmmmm, burito
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It’s propr. You should have seen us shopping for that feather boa from the Sacred 2 video.
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question? all that knight stuff that you own, like the sword, shield, helment, etc, is that real metal or is it plastic? its hard to tell.
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Great video angryjoe. Does anyone know where i can get this game in the UK. I cant find a single shop that sells it, it’s not even on places like amazon or ebay.
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Available from Steam – and at the moment it’s cheap!
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Ay Yo Angry Joe, this game reminds me of Birthright Gorgon’s Alliance on pc =]
av ya hurd of it? give ‘er a tin outta tin whaddya say? 10/10 =]
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Where is borderlands review i wanna see that! could you please make it it would make my day
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I’ve heard tales about this game , it is said to be badass .
But i think i’l let this one be .
No offence to king arthur it’s just that i’ve had enough rts action for a while and i’m busy with another game : The Saboteur(check it out Joe) .
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This is SO MUCH MORE than ‘just an RTS – and you should really check it out!
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Joe did you heard that there will be Total war napoleon wars or something i cant remember the name correctly
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Hey Joe, I remember seeing that Developer mentioned in an Impulse Newsletter a while back and here is a link to the site for another one of their games, this time based upon the Crusades:
http://www.impulsedriven.com/crusaders
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http://www.kingarthurthewargame.com/main.html
the patch seems to solve the issues with the camera and battle movement!
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also price went up to 40 dollars :9
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very funny video joe. i doubt i’ll be able to get my hands on this anytime soon because of christmas, but hopefully i’ll get to check it out by january.
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Lol, that scene where the sword went flying into the guy was hilarious. XD The best scene in the vid.
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Cuz thats the part you suggested! LoL.
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sweet, i’ll get this game on Christmas.
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it looks definitely something to buy when i got time
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edit: theres supposed to be the word “great” in between “definitely” for some reason that didn’t make it through
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Oh man. I think that was your best review yet. I am a huge Total War, Civilization and Cossacks fan. I am DEFINITELY going to check this one out. I don’t think I’ll be getting much sleep after the holidays.
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Buy it John, you will love it!
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As a massive fan of the Total War series, and just like you, disappointed in the stablity and fun of Empire Total War, to see that such a game so like it, but combining my two favorite genres together into one game… I’m shocked such a game slimmed underneath my radar. It’s thanks to YOU Joe, that I am getting this game after Christmas, and that I will play the living day lights out of this game. As someone who enjoyed Dragon Age, and as a guy who has spent nearly 500 hours in Medieval Total War 2, I salute you for supporting this minor publisher, and telling us all about this game. You can be safely assured I am going to spread the word of this game, and thanks again for doing this review.
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