Arthur's Knights 2: The Secret of Merlin

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Summary: LOVE IT! But......
Review: A superb concept with a deep story and nice graphics. The sequel has many great ideas but has the same flaws as the first game. At last a heroic game without just slaughter, slaughter, slaughter... The problem is that many ideas listed in the previews (Like MORE women, evil choices, honour-codex, etc. etc.) haven't been fulfilled. Thus, if you don't make the right decision, you die. It was promised that there are MANY ways to complete Bradwen's quests, yet there is only one way. SAD, because this was a GREAT idea. I love the game because I'm a history-buff and because I'm sick of the 76545676464356753 football-games and the even more Action-Murder-games. This game has depth at least. I may not be flawless but it's a great effort.

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Summary: Not what you'd expect
Review: I bought this game without playing the first Arthur's Knights and assumed because it's brand spanking new and advertised as XP compatable, that it'd be fun to sit down and kill some brain cell over. The brain cells killed were from frustration over the choppy movement, bad voice-overs and no real tutorial on how to interact with the characters and scenary. I, ..., was tired of the ride, find, ride back just to find out one small thing wasn't done back where I just left, go back, look for what I missed, return to the person who sent me, just to have the game crash and I had to return to my last save. I found that the game WILL let you save over a past save, so there are more than 10 saves available. (only 10 slots available) But....this doesn't make up for the last 2 hours of running around which I just lost and have to do again. To top it off, I send an e-mail to the Adventurecompanygames site asking for assistance and I get no reply for a week. Not a good way to run a business. It appears this game is only eye candy with some exceptional graphics but I had more fun with simgolf.

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Summary: Where is the NEXT sequel???
Review: I LOVE this game and it saddens me that it's so underappreciated. True, several of the promises in the previews weren't fulfilled but the story is deep, the graphics GORGEOUS (I've never seen a winter-landscape put to life more beautifully and it such stunning colours before) and the movement isn't as hard. Of course, as a knight you have to ride a horse! What were you thinking, that Bradwen would use a plane? It's a brilliant games for its history, amazing story and beautiful graphics!!! Please release a third part of this legend! PLEASE!

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Summary: Good story but depressing!
Review: If you're expecting AK2 to be supreme over its predecessor, think again. This game is identical to the first AK, from its locations to its characters. I found this game to be just a series of inventory puzzles; get on your horse, get off your horse, go collect item, get on your horse, go to different location, get off your horse, use item. Mapping system is ANNOYING! (a jump feature would have been surperb) and the voice over acting is generally over done. The game is designed in Direct Draw, which hates most modern 3D accelerated video cards. Loves to crash without warning. Also, for some bizarre reason, you are limited to only TEN save game slots per player. Why ten? I have no idea!! So this makes the game difficult to replay. Bug in the reloading process that makes progressive games a pain to load. To top it all off, the game is much too long for how it is paced. I felt sick of riding my horse all over creation, aimlessly looking for a certain rock. My advice, unless you loved the first game, avoid this one!

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Summary: Get on your horse, Get off your horse
Review: If you're expecting AK2 to be supreme over its predecessor, think again. This game is identical to the first AK, from its locations to its characters. I found this game to be just a series of inventory puzzles; get on your horse, get off your horse, go collect item, get on your horse, go to different location, get off your horse, use item. Mapping system is ANNOYING! (a jump feature would have been surperb) and the voice over acting is generally over done. The game is designed in Direct Draw, which hates most modern 3D accelerated video cards. Loves to crash without warning. Also, for some bizarre reason, you are limited to only TEN save game slots per player. Why ten? I have no idea!! So this makes the game difficult to replay. Bug in the reloading process that makes progressive games a pain to load. To top it all off, the game is much too long for how it is paced. I felt sick of riding my horse all over creation, aimlessly looking for a certain rock. My advice, unless you loved the first game, avoid this one!

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Summary: Good story but depressing!
Review: This second game is not quite as good as the first. The first I felt was more interesting this story was too depressing even though you save everyone from the main monster your characters end up not happily ever after. I also would like to know what exactly The Secret of Merlin was? The whole game did not even talk about it. All this story talked about was a curse that you had to find out why it was put on and who put it on. Another thing that bothered me about this game was that you visited alot of the same places that you did from the first game and there were only maybe 2 or 3 new places to visit but it felt like you were playing the first game again. I liked it but it was not as good as the first one but I am willing to give it 3 stars for good story even though depressing.