History won’t remember my tenure as Alba’s monarch fondly. A poisoned brother, nieces and nephews fed to woodland critters, political rivals turned into ‘art’ in my torture chamber – and let’s not go into all the STDs or that time I wanted to have sex with a shoe. Yeah, this is Crusader Kings all right.
After racking up a litany of misdeeds that would be far too long – and nauseating – to list here, I can report that Crusader Kings III still lets you play an absolute monster. You can be chivalrous and pious, too, but it’s not as fun to read about. Indeed, almost everything you can say about its predecessor is true here, but it doesn’t feel like a repeat.
Crusader Kings III starts where the last game left off. Not chronologically, of course, but in terms of its systems. Over the course of nearly a decade, Paradox has lavished its historical soap opera with DLC, and almost all of what it added is still present in this new base game. The difference is that it’s all been designed holistically instead of slotted in piecemeal.
Everything just feels like it fits together better. It still throws lots of crises and notifications and decade-spanning wars at you, but it’s a lot less jarring this time around because it seems like more consideration has been put into how all of these systems interact with each other. It’s also a hell of a lot better at explaining what the heck is going on.
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BITING BACK
The tooth is out there in adventure TEETH OF GLASS
SMOKE ALARM
THE INVISIBLE SMOKE FACTORY is back in a Flash
MECH ME OVER
Move over Mario, here's mech-based platforming in ARMORED SHELL NIGHTJAR
"I like Pillars of Eternity better than Baldur's Gate III"
PILLARS OF ETERNITY deserves a bigger space in the CRPG pantheon
"A harrowing dark fantasy about hapless, bright-eyed children"
Spelunking into hell with MADE IN ABYSS: BINARY STAR FALLING INTO DARKNESS
THE IMMORTAL LOCK
A massive, meaty game in a single horrific Quake map.
NEW MANOEUVRES
Building a dedicated sim racing space in an average family house
OVERWATCH 2
Save me space girl.
REET GOOD TIME
THANK GOODNESS YOU'RE HERE is a riotous recreation of Yorkshire
THE PLUCKY SQUIRE
How many games let you make friends with a MtG card?