Return to Krondor

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Return to Krondor (PC) | HF + ULD + RS | 1.36 GB
Genre: Role-Playing | RPG | Strategy

Return to Krondor, like Betrayal at Krondor, is set in author Raymond E. Feist's swords-and-sorcery world of Midkemia. Both games provide strongly story-driven experiences, as evidenced by the fact that they are divided into "chapters," during which the plot is advanced in a very linear, predetermined fashion. Similarly, both games require you to use preset characters, each possessing a fully developed, distinctive personality, and determine party membership solely in response to plot developments over which you have no control. But while Betrayal at Krondor allowed you to develop your character in a variety of ways while exploring a vast gaming world and undertaking numerous subquests, Return to Krondor offers much more restrictive gameplay. Each chapter in Return to Krondor is set in a very discrete, confining geographic area (one room, in the case of two of the chapters), and most chapters have no subquests at all, forcing you to focus solely on your primary quest objectives.



The handful of available subquests are all interesting and do an excellent job at drawing you deeper into Krondor's world, and the main storyline is consistently compelling. In fact, you are likely to race through the already brief game because the lure of advancing the storyline by proceeding directly to the next key objective is difficult to resist. Still, even if you want to stop and savor the game's surroundings, your ancillary activities are primarily limited to opening doors in Krondor to encounter random human enemies or, in the sole chapter set in the not-so-vast wilderness, hopping along from territory to territory looking for random, mostly human, enemies to engage. The linearity of Return to Krondor will alienate role-playing game fans who prefer more open-ended experiences such as those offered by the Fallout games, but the strength of Return to Krondor's main storyline will certainly appeal to adventure game fans and other gamers wanting to play an often-compelling "interactive movie."

Return to Krondor Tech Info
Publisher: Sierra Entertainment
Developer: Sierra Ent.
Genre: Role-Playing
ESRB Descriptors: Animated Blood & Gore, Animated Violence

Minimum System Requirements
System: Pentium-166 or equivalent
RAM: 128 MB
Video Memory: 15 MB
Hard Drive Space: 600 MB

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