Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 review - Peasant company excluded. This gorgeous medieval RPG continues to be just as divisive, prickly and abrasive as its predecessor. Direct sequels in games are funny things. As narrative contrivances go for honouring all the choices you made in the first part, there are usually two schools of thought. One is the Jedi: Survivor route, rummaging deeper into the bag of tricks with even wilder skills. But then you get games like Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, which s...

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Review - What's Old Is New Again Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a triumphant sequel, improving upon its predecessor with an open-world RPG that delights in its complexity and emphasis on player choice. There's a tavern in the town of Troskowitz where the barmaids must be sick at the sight of the reviewer. He'd been there twice, and both times been involved in messy brawls despite not tasting a lick of alcohol. This sort of emergent experience is part of what makes K...

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Review - An action-packed medieval saga fit for a Hollywood blockbuster. Armed with excellent melee combat and an exceptional story, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is one part sequel and one part coronation, bringing a lot of the original's ideas to fruition. Some days you mope about how you'll never get back the feeling you had the first time you played Skyrim. And then Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 arrives on a mighty steed to sweep you off your feet at full gallop. Ar...

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 review Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a big, bold, unutterably weird thing, and it's a new RPG classic. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 might be the most specific RPG ever played. Everything from its location, to its era, to its combat, to its clothing feels hyper-tuned, dialled in with precision to suit oddball tastes. Like its predecessor, this is a game whose story springs inevitably from the politics of its time and place: the Kingdom of Bohemia in 1403. Want to mo...