Story-wise, the game gushed with text printed in script-like fonts against a parchment backdrop to give the entire presentation the medieval fantasy feel of pulling you through the CRT into another world. Battles also took place in the same area where the encounter began adding a nice bit of continuity to things.
In Betrayal, that would be used for setting up party members and ordering them about the field in a sort of advanced take on what SSI’s Gold Box series did in their isometric combat engines. Another similarity is that both games also slipped into a third-person view.
Its world was also seen in first person, though with far less detail than what Dynamix put into Midkemia’s forests and open roads. Though the graphics could be pixeliciously rough, they still added a considerable degree of detail to the wide, open world of Betrayal’s section-by-section sandbox as players cleared each major chapter in the main story.ĭrakkhen, a CRPG which came out in Japan in 1989, did relatively the same thing mechanically sans the digitized actors. Players would see Midkemia from first-person and a combination of digitized likenesses from actors’ faces to costumed, full-body scans added details where it was needed in the text-filled dialogues, cuts, all the way down to the character status screens for each one. The use of 3D was on the rise as the technology began pulling more detail out of the crude, flat polys and wireframes that used to define it on earlier PC games. This was the slimmed down ad that also ran in 1993 for the game, this time showing off the actual box cover with a healthy amount of easier-to-read text. But in Betrayal, a new threat endangers the fragile peace earned in the years afterward, and it’s going to be up to the player and a party of hardy adventurers to save the day.īetrayal at Krondor did a number of things that made it stand out from the typical, grid-based CRPG at the time from its mechanics to the way players would see its world from the user interface that resembled something straight out of fantasy to the world outside of it. On Midkemia during the Riftwar, an orphan rose up to become a Master Magician as he and his friends eventually saved the world from catastrophe. Connected to Midkemia is another world, Kelewan, through magical rifts.
The Riftwar series took place in the fantasy world of Midkemia, a medieval place ruled over by both sorcery and steel. The game takes place ten years after the last Riftwar book, A Darkness at Sethanon, and before Prince of the Blood featuring a number of characters from the books along with a host of locations allowing players to explore them from a much closer perspective. Though Feist didn’t write the story or create the characters in it, however, he did have the final word in making sure that it didn’t do anything too far off the beaten path. It’s an original tale written by designers at Dynamix that eventually became a part of Feist’s universe when it was followed up by its own novelization and sequel books. Feist’s Riftwar universe but not on any of the stories. Published by Sierra On-Line in 1993, the game is based on author Raymond E. One of the things they had also dabbled in was CRPGs and, under Sierra, their creativity would become Betrayal at Krondor. Although they are probably not as well known as an Activision or EA, they were one of the giants among PC gamers in the late eighties and early nineties thanks to the avalanche of ideas that they produced from their studio. Pack that in with side quests and other goodies in the wilds, and there’s a lot to do here.ĭynamix’ eclectic catalog of games wanted to conquer nearly everything out there - flight sims, action games, adventure, sub sims, sports, tactics, and a slew of others. The boast also wasn’t an empty one - it was about as close to an open world that players would get until Arena the next year. The great art in this ad was also on the box’s cover.
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