It’s impossible to talk about King Arthur without making reference to it’s heritage, so it’s best to clarify from the start that Neocore’s fantasy epic is built around the familiar gameplay of Creative Assembly’s long running Total War series. The core architecture of a turn based strategic map paired with real time battles between large scale armies will be extremely familiar to anyone who has played either of Creative Assembly’s Medieval based efforts. However like Volition before them Neocore have used this solid structure to create a game with it’s own flavour, specifically the unique fantasy setting of Celtic mythology…
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King Arthur: The Role Playing Wargame
January 5, 2010 – 7:46 pm
By Tom Hatfield
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July 26, 2009 – 3:40 pm
Do you know the bad thing about having a Sunday Column? Apart from the divine wrath for abusing the sabbath, when there’s a sale on steam for the weekend or week it’s over by the time you read this. Luckily, I have a portable time machine! Like fuck I do. If you actually believed that, you are banned from Gaming Daily. From the internet even. Infact, I ban you from life. I have admin tools (I think), don’t make me use them. Back on topic; this week on steam there was a 50% sale off all Paradox Interactive games, and…
By Ed Fenning
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