Chronicles of the Sword
Chronicles of the Sword is a third-person, mouse-based point-and-click graphic adventure game,[3] featuring sprite based characters in 3D pre-rendered environments with switching viewpoints (described as similar to Alone in the Dark[4]).It also includes a few action game elements in the form of simple combat sequences that are interactive only on the Regular difficulty level and are automated (shown as cutscenes) on the Easy setting."[14] Ron Dulin of GameSpot opined "Chronicles of the Sword does have some nice elements, most notably the richly detailed background art and the excellent musical score.While he praised the voice acting and the clean cinematics, he remarked that the player character's slow movements and the excessive precision required in the point-and-clicking make the game dull to the point of being almost unplayable.[26] PC Zone called it a game of "a couple of nice puzzles and some lovely graphics - but little else," as the story "is dull, consisting of some medieval stereotypes presented in a fancily-rendered environment.Bob Strauss wrote in a 1996 review in Entertainment Weekly that Gawain "moves with all the speed and vitality of a knight in a 500-pound suit of armor" and the "jerky computer-animated characters might have looked impressive a decade ago.[16][15][17][22] In Computer Gaming World, Scorpia called it "a mediocre product at best" and added that "anyone waning a taste of the real thing is better off reading Le Mort d'Arthur.Internationally, the game's reception was less negative, but its review scores were still mostly average, including 3/5 in Génération4 in France,[28] 50% from Gambler, 60% from Secret Service and 65% from Świat Gier Komputerowych in Poland,[29][30][31] and three out of five stars in PC Player and 61% from Videogames in Germany.