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King Arthur: The Genre Ambiguous Wargame

By John Walker on November 26th, 2009.

Eek, I can only control one horse at a time!

I have absolutely no idea what this game is about, but I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that a decent number will see the pic and the videos and say, “By criminy, I need to be playing this before the day is through.” (Yeah, yeah, Jim’s mentioned it before – Disgruntled Ed) I’m also fairly sure the creators aren’t sure what the game is about either, since they’ve called what is very obviously a battle simulating RTS game, “King Arthur: The Role-Playing Wargame“. I guess you, well, play a role… But anyway, for those of you with the weird genetic anomaly that allows you to enjoy strategy gaming, this looks like a good effort from a smaller developer. I say that because a) it looks very pretty and b) it frightens me with complicated menus and more than one unit on screen at once.

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