It’s almost like an early first-person shooter, except movement is still step-based - in fact, the size of both the player party’s steps and the size of turning increments are adjustable from the in-game options menu. Technology had advanced enough to allow a (admittedly basic) three-dimensional world, and movement is significantly more sophisticated than in the early grid-based games. Where the early Might and Magic games used grid-based, step-by-step movement from a first-person perspective, and modern games like Skyrim keep the first-person perspective but add a fully three-dimensional world and smooth real-time movement, Betrayal at Krondor slots neatly between the two. The most noticeable way that Betrayal at Krondor differs from its predecessors, like Might and Magic, is in its technology. So playing Betrayal at Krondor, which was one of the first games to try it, has been fascinating. I was quite impressed with Skyrim’s achievement in this regard. Today’s games, like Skyrim, instead try to offer a believable place to explore, with a recognizable landscape and culture.
Other role-playing games, like Might and Magic: Book One, gave the player a world to wander freely, but these were abstractions - Might and Magic’s tile-based world was a symbolic representation rather than a realistic one, full of random battles with strange beasts and a lot of other things that didn’t really make sense. Or at least, providing a world that feels like a real place populated by real people was. But in 1993, when Betrayal at Krondor was released, it was a more novel notion. This is certainly not an unfamiliar concept most recently, Skyrim embraced the same philosophy, and I’ve written about it at length. Other History Lessons posts can be found here.Īt the end of part 1, I was marveling at Betrayal at Krondor’s open world, which left me free to wander the length of the Kingdom instead of attending to my rather pressing business. Also be sure to read part 1 before continuing. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.New readers may wish to read my History Lessons Introduction first. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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