There are many retellings of Arthurian legend, though most of them are, I think, completely derivative. He's degenerated in the public consciousness into nothing more than the most boring archetype of a king. One that I think is a great antidote to this is John Boorman's Excalibur, a film that embodies the bizarre nature of Arthur. The mysticism, the mysterious world of otherworldly mists and unknowable magic. A man who will be seen as a great hero, but in reality did no more and no less than he was always fated to do. This game and its predecessor take that to another level. There is NOTHING normal and familiar about this telling of Arthur, yet it is more deeply routed in the best aspects of the myth than almost any other modern adaptation. Arthur's knights are beset by foreign invaders like the saxons. They stand in the ruins of imperial Rome. They battle ghosts and fairies and monsters and foul sorcerers. They are plagued by internal conflicts, and Arthur is forced to mediate between Christians and Pagans, and between good men and evil. The gameplay itself goes from good, to serviceable, to basically unplayable depending on the day. Don't be afraid to use cheats to skip the bad and get to the incredible.
