Kingdom Come: Deliverance is something rather new to the RPG world. Although most RPG would fall into more the fantasy category as well, Kingdom Come: Deliverance falls more into the historical section of RPG’s. This means we have a purely medieval background with no magic and no dragons. For those who are looking for RPG that is easier to fully immerses yourself in, this may be your game. Because there is no magic casting or random dragons attacking you and the game is in the first person. Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a game that allows players to fully jump into this time era. With a setting in the historical events in 15th century Bohemia, Kingdom Come sets up a game that brings players back to this place in time and allows you to play the story.

A large portion of Kingdom Come is gaining knowledge by walking around and talking to people. You mostly progress your quests by talking to people to find where you need to go and then talking to more people to figure out what you need to do. If you are not into the stronger side of storytelling this game may not be for you. As you go through the game you learn more and more about who you are looking for. You usually already know why you are looking for his person. There is almost a grind to the dialogue. You have to dive in and talk to a lot of people to get the information that you are looking for. The strings of dialogue are well run together and seem like a very natural flow of conversation. Unfortunately, this game is still in beta and some of the characters I ran into I either could not talk to them, or they had no voice actor. These were both very weird occurrences considering I feel like I am playing Skyrim. But, these problems will hopefully be fixed by the time the game is fully released.

The combat is not comparable to any other game that I have played. Kingdom Come: Deliverance has the most realistic combat system I have ever used. The sword fighting is slow. You need to wait for your opportunity to attack and make sure you block. It is easy to get overrun with attacks if you are not careful. I think for some players this will be a huge bonus for the game. For me this was not something I enjoyed but I can see the fun in it. A huge negative of this game for me was the fighting tutorial. You had to win a fight to move on to the next quest and it was a tutorial fight. I spent 15 minutes fighting this one guy and assumed that is what the rest of the games combat was going to be like. It was hard and took a long time to wear him down and win. But not 5 minutes after that fight I got rushed by a bandit on the side of the road and took him down in 30 seconds. If the game is going to have fights that only last that long why would the tutorial fight take so so so so long. Usually the tutorial is easier if not exactly the same as what you are going to face in the game. It does not make any sense to make the tutorial so hard that I had to play it 5 times just to beat one guy on supposedly the easiest difficulty. If I had not been playing a beta I may have just quit playing the game right there. It was such a frustrating part of the game that I wanted to be done.

The story is well done. In the beta you start in the middle of the story so, right away it was hard to jump in. I love the story in RPG’s. When I played the elder scrolls games I would read every dialogue and even some of the books along the way. I wanted to be fully immersed in this world and I thought Skyrim did a great job of that. Although I did not get to play the beginning of the game, once I caught up a little on the story, Kingdom Come did have a story that I could fall in love with. For people that are looking for a great story this may be your next game.

This game looks great. It has a very open world feel to it and the landscapes look great. You cannot, however, walk wherever you want. I am not sure if it is because it is in beta or just how the game is designed, but some of the thicker sections of woods you cannot walk through. You have to find a path through the woods. I was hoping for a fully open world game and hope this is just a beta thing. But, I worry that this may be a full part of the game. That should not take away from how big this game is. I traveled a long distance on purpose to see if I would find the end of the map. I found village after village (with non-voice acted NPC’s keep in mind). But I did not find the end of the map. Although it’s openness may have its limitations, it is a very big map with a lot of land to cover and a lot of people to talk to. It was fun to just ride on my horse and discover more and more of the map. It makes me wish I had a better PC so I could see everything in all of it’s glory.

Although I did not run into this. I have seen gameplay where armies go to war against one another. This I believe will be a huge selling point for Kingdom Come if it works out in game. Dozens of knights and archers battling it out. You can jump in and help or just sit back and watch. This is something that no other game I have played has ever pulled off. Skyrim tried to do this with Imperial Army and the Stormcloaks but I think Kingdom Come: Deliverance may have done a more epic version of this. I do not think we will know how well this is going to work until the game has come to near completion. But, I am excited for this feature.

Overall, Kingdom Come: Deliverance has a lot of potential. It is very rough around the edges the more I dove into it but there is a lot to do already in the game. The combat is the most realistic out of any game I have ever played and something that requires a lot of patience and skill. I could see myself being fully committed to this story.

Tyler Hull DIGITAL MEDIA PRODUCER

Tyler was born at a very young age and has since grown into a caffeine dependant adult pretending his is good at video games.