Betrayal At Krondor Review

I remember seeing this game for the first time at a friend's house. He had got quite far in the game, so I got a good idea of the story as it unfolded. What appealed to me was the size of the game. There was quite literally, a whole country to explore. It's not like some games that limit you to certain areas. You can quite literally go anywhere you want!

At the time, I didn't have a computer powerful enough to run it myself. But I promised myself that it would be the first game that I would buy if I did get one. I kept that promise, in fact I ordered it before I actually ordered the PC itself! It's probably the game that I have spent the most time on out of my current collection.

The story-line behind the game is very strong indeed and it stops the game from becoming dull and repetitive. There are many puzzles along the way which stops it becoming a meaningless monster bash. Quake could do with a plot like this.

What really strikes you is that it is like an interactive book. Raymond E. Feist's characters come across really strong. After a while you really get to know the characters and their personalities. You find out about their history and their family. Even if, like me, you haven't read any of Raymond's books, you'll soon get an idea of the history of his Midkemia world.

Sierra have certainly done a fantastic job of combining Raymond Feist's Midkeima world with an incredibly involving game and strong story-line. Sure the graphics aren't the best in the world but the gameplay shows through. The game has a good save mechanism which allows you stop playing the game for a while and then continue from where you left off. It's the sort of thing that you'd keep on your hard drive and play when you had the time.

If you haven't played the game, I'd strongly recommend you doing so. If you like Raymond Feist's books or if you are a RPG games fan then you'll probably like the game even more. However, I hadn't even heard of Raymond E. Feist and buying a role-playing game would be the last on my list but I still enjoyed Betrayal at Krondor thoroughly. Now it has been released as freeware, there's no excuse not to play it.