The First Templar - Special Edition

I got this game for free on GOG and I like it so far. Combat is ok but I would like to see more combo strikes. Graphics is not soo good, but I don't complain. Character movement is bad when you change directions, if you go straight and move only camera it is ok. Skill talent tree could be better and reveal skills in the tree is must have but this game makes you to first to spend points for skill to reveal others which I do not like. Overall, 6 out of 10.

great

Good graphics and good gameplay. I also like that it's in the 13th century so like very old and that the story is about Christianity.

The title is easy to control, the story is good for what it is. I really like the settings and the historical sites. The gameplay is easy action-third person hack and slash with some easy skill-three and nice side-quests with some bonus. Combat is decent, responsive. Presentation is average, graphics decent and voice acting and music its average. I give it 6/10 its GOOD christian themed, templar themed adventure with good gameplay and easy to understand mechanics. I recommend this.

Positives: - cool templar swashbuckling - variety of environmental sets to explore - interesting & surprisingly fluid character swapping mechanic - fairly surprising attention to environmental detail Neither good or bad: - storyline, has some neat moments, but utterly predictable - character leveling & powerups are straightforward, just about right to max things out by end of the game - somewhat dated graphics by 2011 standards Negatives: - dialogue writing is uninteresting, repetitive, obvious, and in some parts repulsive (It's a women thing!"). MC is a boring gary sue, sidekick girl is totally-not-lara-croft-stereotypical-dagger-rogue-with-sexy-makeup that feels utterly out of place with the themes & setting the game takes place in, in almost every way possible. All the villains are cartoonish, Roland is the most intriguing character and even his motivations are... mediocre at best - for some reason most of the XP in the game isn't from the most difficult part of the game, the combat, and has to be gotten from finding chests - speaking of the combat, it's frustratingly clunky & janky, most of the mechanics don't work well at all, best strategy winds up being default attack spam and blocking/kiting enemies because nothing else works right, ever, and half the enemies have unavoidable attacks (it would help if the dodging worked at all) - the game tries to learn hard on the combat encounters by constantly spamming them, and because the system isn't good, it sours the whole experience - the game settings are lacking customization options, there's no mouse bindings displayed at all, which contributes to the janky combat problem by being unable to make that smoother and more intuitive - in stark contrast to some fluid combat animations, dialogue scenes are laughably bad - it's obvious the studio chose to cut a lot of corners, the game concept deserves higher quality production