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This game is the sequel to Spirit of Excalibur. A bit more then a year has passed since the first game has finished and King Constantine is the sovereign sitting in the throne of King Arthur (thanks to you, if you played and finished part one) and the realm of Englande is prosperous and a joyful place to live in.
If all this seems to be too good to be true, it’s only because it is! The game opens up with an intro where you are told about a traveler coming to Camelot. King Constantine offers hospitality to this lonely knight, but is thanked for his generosity by betrayal. The good king is stabbed to death and the royal treasury is cleaned out. They took everything – even the Holy Grail! They did not only rob the entire treasury, they even took fair Nineve with them.
Darkness is falling over Englande and Merlin is struggling to the point of exhaustion to keep the evil forces at bay. You must retrieve what has been taken from Camelot and you must retrieve it soon. You and your party will go to Iberia (Spain) where new challenges and dangers await you. May your quest be successful.
At this point you will select your party and be off to Spain. You may import characters from the previous part of the game (but you need to run the install file and select this option there). You will have a choice of 7 to 11 knights to select for your party. Four would be the best choice (refer to the walkthrough which four you should chose).
The gameplay has not changed. You still have this real time RPG game where you need to do several things at once (although I found this game slightly easier to finish – perhaps because I already got used to part one).
The graphics have improved, but I prefer the ones in the previous part (the colors in this game seem too intense for me). Also the sound quality is improved (but the soundtrack itself isn’t that good anymore). The interface stayed the same.
All in all I rate this game with a 3. It’s a good game that improved technically over its predecessor, but the overall feel of the game is less convincing. The really positive part though is, that the game is full compatible with WinXP as well (but if you want sound you’ll still need to run it with DOSBox or VDMSound).
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