A Game of Thrones reviews

This game has been a huge disappointmen­t…While it started as a promising game, it quickly turned nasty! While there may be many people out there who like this kind of a linear game, question is how many would like a game to dictate your choices…The worst part is NOT that it keeps sending your back in time to play the same character whom you started playing at later stage of life, though I hated it!…The WORST part is that it forces you to make choices and choose for you the sides in the coflicts! There is very little choice given to your character and the direction of the story is pretty much pre-determined ! I felt constrained and frustrated playing this game and had no will left to finish it! I bought the book on which it was based, and that too was all over the place! I will stay away from this game if you like a bit of freedom in making choices and not feel like being stuck on a train running on a railway tracks to a pre-determined ending all the while the crazy voice on the loudspeakers is telling you: now you are this character…and now you are his enemy…now you don`t know who you are…

Well I finished the game, I played it on Difficult and found the combat aspect challenging and the world compelling and the narrative quite good, dark but psychologically compelling. The character motivations were quite realistic for fantasy game. I am told by people who read the books that this is one of the strengths of the book series. Well I have successfully developed an opinion of this without reading the books or seeing the movie/ TV series and will try out this approach on other things to develop opinions of.

Awful controls and gameplay, was expecting a skyrim style gameplay but thoroughly dissappointed. Watch gameplay videos online before buying this game!!

So the #1 thing every gamer should know, assuming they enjoy quality games, is that they should do research before purchasing and preferably purchase after the release ( Pre-order bonuses are dirty and really not worth it, even morally wrong in some cases such as Elder Scrolls Online ), there are reviewers or first impressionists who would write up about the game as soon as they're allowed to. They take a bullet for you, you avoid wasting money.

Anyway, I've seen a little of this game, I even own it. I haven't heard anyone talk about it, it's as if it's a bad game that nobody remembers except when they're listing/referencing bad games. If you want something similar you can get Skyrim with it's DLC on PC for about as much, as well as Oblivion, both are roughly $15–20 NZ now when they're on special. If Might Ape doesn't have a special on then there's always the Midsummer Sale ( Winter for us ) on Steam, I'd recommend Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, even though it's not a great game, if you get it on sale for under $30 it's worth it if you don't mind it feeling like a single player MMORPG.

Other RPGs that I would recommend would be Dark Souls, it goes on sale on Steam quite often for about $16 USD, I believe Mighty Ape has had it on sale a couple of times as well. Dark Souls II, Mighty Ape has had a sale on this, down to $50 I believe, which is a steal if you ask me. I'd recommend using a Gamepad for both, Xbox 360 controllers work just fine ( wired Xbox 360 controllers or you have to buy one with a wireless adapter to allow wireless ones to work. There's a cable that attaches to wireless controllers, that just charges the battery, you still need the licensed wireless adapter to get the wireless controllers working with PC.

There is the Fallout Series. Fallout 3, and Fallout: New Vegas. Fallout 1 and 2 are turn based RPGs where as 3 and New Vegas are first/third person shooter RPGs.

Fable – The Lost Chapters ( PC/Xbox, there is a Steam version ) I believe Gamepads work with this, again, at least the Xbox 360 pads should. If you have an Xbox 360 you could get Fable 2, it wasn't a bad game at all. Don't bother with the third game.

Jade Empire. Not sure if the PC version works with Gamepads, it is also a bit clunky compared to modern games, but it's still pretty good.

Mass Effect 1 and 2. Should be PC and Console versions of both, getting 3 is kinda immoral since they cut part of the game off for Day One DLC, but if you really enjoy the games then feel free.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Series. They are kind of old now, I would highly recommend getting mods for them, they're First Person Shooters, single player, little bit of horror type stuff like a more intense version of Fallout 3/New Vegas. It does have RPG elements of course, carry weight, armor types, resistances, ammo types. But it's pretty hardcore compared to the other games listed.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2. Not the MMO, they're a little clunky but if you really enjoyed Mass Effect you would probably like them. They aren't so much action as they are more like the old turn based RPGs, but they do have some real time element to them and you can choose your path and make choices a bit greater than the ones in Mass Effect, you aren't forced to be a hero, most of the time.

There are plenty more RPGs I could list that are going to be better than this game, and probably a lot more that I don't even know about.

Summery: Look up first impressions, gameplay, or walkthrough videos to get an idea of what a game is like before you spend your own money on it.

The game in whole is amazing graphics could be be better as well as the controls but after you get use to it ya away recommend highly

Although the combat system is cumbersome, the game is still worth playing if you are a fan of the show or books. The story takes place around the time leading up to the start of the series, and adds a nice bit of flavour to the world.