A Game of Thrones

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.