Darklands

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rpg / adventure / historical
27 MB

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~19 min
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January 1, 1992
Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 (32 & 64 bit)
English
MPS Labs / Atari
single-player

Bonus content included for FREE with purchase:
manual
cluebook
reference card
soundtrack
map

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What's cool about it:

One of “The Greatest Games Of All Time” according to Gamespot^®.
Improve each character's attributes and skills as the game progresses. No artificial character classes or levels!
Active pause system lets you to freeze the action and give new orders to characters any time you wish.

Overview:

Prepare yourself to enter Darklands - the first realistic fantasy role-playing game. Leading a band of four adventurers across the sinister landscape of 15th Century Germany, you’ll face the Middle Ages as people believed it to be: land filled with mythical beasts, religious power-mongers, and bloodthirsty robber-knights!

Watch savage battles unfold before your eyes! Travel hundreds of miles by land and sea from Frisian Coast to Bohemia, from the alps to Prussia, visiting over ninety cities along the way.

Your quest for fame and fortune can take you through raucous city streets and dark mine shafts, or from a robber knight’s tower to the terrifying Witches' Sabbath! Get ready for the astonishing wonders of a realistic fantasy adventure in the mysterious Darklands!

Minimum system requirements: Windows XP or Windows Vista, 1.8 GHz Processor, 512MB RAM (1 GB recommended), 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended), 2GB HDD, Mouse, Keyboard.

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A real Gem!

Posted on 2011-10-13 07:23:01 by ThorChild's avatar ThorChild:

I came to this game pretty late(around 2001) and had an older PC at the time to run old games.
The detail is quite incredible in this game, even if the graphics look pretty blocky they won't stop you trying to get into the mind set of a 15th Century medieval person!
That level of realism and detail makes it a hard unforgiving game, especially to a new gamer wanting to rush out read more into the game world to explore(such as i was once!). You will die, many times, without the right preperation. To that end i found this site really useful in helping me understand the finer details of staying alive:
http://www.darklands.net/index.shtml
Other than that i'll say with the right investment of time trying to understand the game world and game systems, Darklands is probably one of the most deep and rewarding crpg's ever made.

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Heroic RP-Adventures in Medieval Germany...

Posted on 2011-10-13 09:26:47 by n8mahr's avatar n8mahr:

...promised us Microprose around 1992 - and they delivered !
What a game this is!
It believably blends the "real world" with a world, where monsters, demons and saints do really exist.
There is actually a (rather small) background story - it is embedded loosely in (german) medieval lore - the devil himself is about to enter the world of the living, the wild hunt is read more on the prowl and you are the only ones to fight against a dark future.
At your 4 person parties disposal is a very wide variety of weapons like swords, pickaxes, (cross)bows, and even very early versions of black powder rifles; alchemy plays a big role, since you can cook and brew your own acid-bombs, tar-traps, firebottles.. even the Saints are there to be called upon and help you.
It offers kind of a "sandbox" gameplay, where you could explore the dungeons, kill evil knights, slay wyrms, burn witches and punish dark priests everywhere when YOU want it.
The world around you acts in "real time", some evil events plague a region just for some time and are gone when it takes you too long to arrive.
Even your party members age over time!!! If you hire an older character, she/ he will most likely have better combat values than a younger one, but after reaching a certain age, those values will decline rapidly.
So if you take your time to do many sidequests, explore most of the world of medieval germany, you will most likely have to replace your older party members by younger ones - which is a nice way to let the players know that the programmers do not like overpowered mega-characters ;)
The graphics have aged, yes. The map on which you travel around by clicking around the landscape wasn´t a beauty even then ;)
The real time battles are scarcely animated, but functional. You can pause at any time, select the weapons, fighting style (!) and enemies by clicking on them, explosions, gas or tar fields are animated and shown on the battlefield. So, I would say, very good for a game that is not a RTS game at it´s core.
But the hand-painted (!) watercolor-background pictures are still a sight to look at !
Allthough the sidequests are getting from mid-to endgame a bit repetitive, the game offers many (and for a game from that time unrivalled!) options of what to do next.
I own both the 3,5" and 5,1/4" versions of this game and I am still in awe because of the work of detail that went in creating the manual, the map and - THE GAME itself!
Play it, if you can spare a few hours just to get "into" a game. You will be rewarded!

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One of the best RPGs of my childhood

Posted on 2011-10-13 07:22:47 by pdedinski's avatar pdedinski:

As stated in the title, this is one of the best and most complex RPG titles I have ever played. You got an open-world game set in medieval Germany. Party of four people to battle evil, and tons of things you need to take care of. Unlike most RPGs where people just give you money and your character is some godlike being that needs no food or rest. You have to take care for your livelihood, read more pray to saints for aid and many more details. A true gem from the times where computer resources were low, but developers and designers compensated with ideas and brilliant gameplay.

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