Muy Buen Clásico, ojalá pongan algún dia el" Knights of the Temple 2" en Steam

Fascinante!!!!! Nuevamente estoy gratamente sorpendido con otro gran trabajo de los primeros juegos de starbreeze. Me parecio bellisimo como con las limitaciones de la epoca lograran un hack and slash con la mejor ambientacion medieval y diseño de personajes. Lo grandioso es que este junto con enclave me hicieron ver mucho mas alla de the darkness que me parecio terriblemente soso y sin personalidad. Y que para colmo siempre fue exclusivo de xbox 360 y ps3.

La historia es emocionante. No sera muy narrativa ni tampoco para darle un oscar. Pero es sumamente entretenida y muy vertiginosa. Cuenta la historia de un caballero templario que accindentalmente emprende una cruzada, para salvar a la amiga de un amigo suyo, que parece que es la clave para desatar una ctastrofe infernal en la tierra comandada por un malevolo sacerdote. Vale mucho la pena conocerla.

La jugabilidad es sumamente divertida y frenetica. Si tubiera que compararla la asociaria con devil may cry 1. Con algunas limitaciones. Pero la particularidad que tiene es que las animaciones de los combates y tambien de las cinematicas estan actuadas con seguidores de movimento de actores reales. Me llamo mucho la atencion ya que es una tecnologia usada ahora mas que nada. Una muy buena innovacion. Es muy importante hacer la mayor cantidad de combos posible para derrivar enemigos con mas facilidad.

El apartado artisitico me parecio fenomenal. Me sorprendio como con las limitaciones de la epoca recrearon a la perfeccion los entornos antiguos del medio orinete de la edad media. Con muy buen trabajo en el cuidado de los detalles y las texturas con tan pocos poligonos. Me ha encantado tambien el amplio lore de enemigos de aquellas antiguas civilizaciones. Y tambien de demonios. Todo un orgullo ya que me encantan.

El aprtado sonoro tambien me parecio espectacular. Los efectos de sonido estan tan bien cuidados que le agrega aun mas realismo a los combates. Y ni hablar la banda sonora. Una orquesta celestial que hacen al juego aun mas epico.

Estoy sumamente feliz de haber terminado este otro gran juego de starbreeze. Este y enclave me han gustado tanto que nunca pense que los creadores de la saga Riddick ya eran unos genios antes de trabajar con Vin Dissel. Totalmente recomendable. En especial a los mas fans de los hack and slash.

Suban la 2 chavales.

Deus Vult, Lets just hope they put the Sequel on Steam even if its not as good as the first.

Good old button-mashing hack&slash from 2004. If I am not mistaken this is from the developer of Enclave, which many people would consider a classic. Unlike Enclave, this game has no RPG elements, it's more of a generic brawler with the knight's theme, similar to games like BloodRayne. The stages are linear and there is no complex customization, just a few combos and weapons that you will unlock while playing. I still think it's worth $10, the kill animations are just so satisfying, you actually feel like you playing a knight. It seems like you can rebind keyboard controls with the gamepad, but I am not sure if there are any limitations with new models. Sadly, the normal difficulty is too easy, and the hard difficulty is almost too hard, sure hope you like blocking ;). If you grew up with games like Enclave, Rune or BloodRayne and somehow missed this, give it a try - it's not the best game by any means, but still fun to play.

Chad Paul the Crusader vs Virgin Cultists: The Deus Vult Edition

I am extremely happy that this game showed up on Steam out of the blue since it is not a famous game but it is a game that many played in their childhood I think. This is a hack and slash game made the famous developer Starbreeze makers of Riddick games, Darkness, Syndicate and many other great games. Knights of the Temple is their second game after Enclave (which can also be bought on Steam). Enclave while good was a bit old school in design according to what was the standard for hack and slash games at the time so they decided to streamline things for this game and focus on the strong points of the genre. And that's exactly the end product here: game that while unremarkable is very strong in its main areas - combat, flow, and atmosphere.

The story follows Paul, a rookie Templar, coming to a monastery of Belmont (probably a tribute to Castlevania) to investigate strange happenings only to find the monks and knights crazed out of their mind serving a corrupt bishop who kidnapped his love Adelle and is on a quest to open the gates of hell. From there the story follows Paul on his journey from the monastery to the Holy Land and even hell itself divided into more than 20 levels many of which are very short.

The meat and potatoes of this game is the gameplay though. You get 3 weapons and a bow. Sword, axe, and mace. And during the game you find new versions of these weapons either from fallen enemies or from exploring the levels. Speaking of levels the flow of the game is very good, sometimes you explore levels, solve some light puzzles but most of the time you follow a path and just fight enemies. Which is ok since the combat is the true star of the show here. Paul will auto lock on to enemies and you unlock some combo moves and by using triggers and face buttons you use either special melee moves or divine magic given to Paul by Adelle during the game. You can upgrade these moves by finding special upgrades during the levels. Special moves are usually some crowd clearing AOEs and divine magic gives you special abilities like heal yourself or armor aura etc. The most useful on both sides are the first moves you learn, the block breaker and heal. Trust me on that one. Breaking enemy blocks is number one strategy with tougher enemies. The crunchy sound, the meaty strikes and gibs and great animation of Paul's moves all contribute to this feeling of being a knight badass. It is hard to put into words how satisfying and visceral the combat in this game is. It really carries the whole game.

There are various enemies and bosses in this game starting with crazy monks who fight by flailing their hands to the demons of hellish nightmares. The graphics are obviously nothing great except Paul himself whose animations during combat are great and his attire changes in each chapter.

Knights of the Temple is a super easy sell to fans of hack and slash games as well as fans of medieval combat games. It is very similar to games such as LOTR Return of the King and its spiritual sequel Demon Stone, none of which are available on Steam. If you haven't played this one as a kid - the combat is well worth it.

PS: the game has a sequel made by the makers of Conan Dark Axe, both games which I would like to see on Steam in some point.

When I saw Knights of the Temple on Steam, I instantly had to buy it.
I played this 16 years ago, when I was still a teen (soooo close to the 16+ age rating it had here) and had to beg my dad "Can I please have it? It has knights in it!", oh the memories this reminds me of.

Suprisingly, KotT aged very well. Besides the cutscenes, which are a rather jarring experience on modern resolutions, the textures are still fine.

KotT shines with it's combat system and fantastically animated combos and finishers.
While you progress through the game, you get new combos, weapons and magical powers to further advance in your own personal crusade. All you do is wander around and hack enemies into pieces with knightly skill, a pinch of button mashing
and regular block-spam. (Beware of the executioners unblockable knee though :D)

With each section of the story and accompanied new environments you encounter new types of enemies and bosses to test your steel and skill against.


For 10 bucks, this is a steal.
To finish this review with Pauls own words, so I can get back to knightly stuff: The lord always provides!

Maybe it's not a masterpiece, but I like its atmosphere of great fight against evil.

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* Various environments, enemies and weapons (European soldiers, Saracens, assassins, demons, swords, scimitars, axes, maces…).
* Unique atmosphere created by cutscenes.
* Satisfying fighting system.
* Highly customisable. It's built using Starbreeze Studios's Ogier engine, for which many tools are released and available for free.

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* It seems unfinished, especially after seeing credits and unused cutscenes and models. Also cutscenes that were used seems like a part of much big story, which can be developed fully in more sophisticated, RPG game and was chopped into pieces for this game.

you have the chance to slay saracens and demons in the name of God almighty,
what more could you demand? purchase this game, peasant! Deus Vult

Crusader, Crusader, please take me with you
The battle lies far to the East
Crusader, Crusader, don't leave me alone
I want to ride out on your Quest
I'm waiting, I'm waiting, to stand by your side
To fight with you over the sea
The're calling, they're calling, I have to be there
The Holy Land has to be free
Fight the good fight
Believe what is right
Crusader, Lord of the Realm
Fight the good fight
With all your might
Crusader, Lord of the Realm
We're marching, we're marching to a land far from home
No-one can say who'll return
For Christendom's sake, we'll take our revenge
On the pagan from out of the East
We Christians are coming, with swords held on high
United by Faith and the cause
The Saracen heathen will soon taste our steel
Our standards will rise 'cross the land
Fight the good fight
Believe what is right
Crusader, Lord of the Realm
Fight the good fight
With all your might
Crusader, Lord of the Realm
To battle, to battle, the Saracen hordes
We follow the warrior king
Onward, ride onward, into the fight
We carry the sign of the cross
Warlords of England, Knights of the Realm
Spilling their blood in the sand
Crusader, Crusader, the legend is born
The future will honour your deeds
Warlords of England, Knights of the Realm
Spilling their blood in the sand
Crusader, Crusader, the legend is born
The future will honour your deeds