I played through an initial series of quests which boiled down to getting the items necessary to forge a sword for the local knight. Though the quest demoed to me during E3 involved the player character waking up late to his father's request, which is as rote and eyeroll as possible for framing the outset of a narrative. It's a pretty typical motivation for a western RPG, but it works well enough in the context of the game here.

The invading Holy Roman Empire kills his parents and he decides to take up arms in order to seek revenge. There are no Witcher potions or magical spells in this western fantasy.Īs for the story itself, the player takes the role of Henry, the son of a local blacksmith in a small village in Bohemia. If anything, Warhorse wants to make damned sure this title is more or less historically faithful to the time period. The game even has an in-game codex of sorts that will update as you play, including both characters and regions directly involved in the game as well as tertiary information about the politics and economic unrest during that point in history. The developers made it clear that they wanted to tell a story rooted in real conflict from human history. I'm serious, you can go to Wikipedia right now to brush up on your eastern European history.

The King of Bohemia, Wenceslaus, has been imprisoned by rebellious nobles and the King of Hungary, Sigismund of the Holy Roman Empire / Hungary is moving troops into the region, which is at the brink of civil war due to its absent King.Īll of the story components for Kingdom Come are based on true historical events. Kingdom Come: Deliverance takes place in the year 1403 in Bohemia, modern day Czech Republic. What I played seemed like it was several years off, not a title that is dropping officially in less than a year and is already available to purchase and play on PC via its beta program.ĭespite the apparent shortcomings with the version of the game presented to me today, the title has a lot of potential and remains something that I am pretty interested in. What I encountered was promising, but also seemed to need a lot more time in the oven.

We finally just learned of its final release date a couple days ago, and with the title slated to finally arrive early next year I was excited to finally get my hands on this. First appearing on Kickstarter in early 2014, the title has long missed its initial delivery estimate of Q4 2015. At E3 2017, I had the chance to sit down with developer Warhorse and their long anticipated title Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

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