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NOT HAPPY

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 23
Date: March 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Wish I could write a review on Return to Krondor.But thats not what you sent me. The book Krondor the Betrayal that you sent me is green in color and looks good on my shelf. The video game in the back of the book says it has Return to Krondor and Betrayal at Krondor on it.But it doesn't. You have my money and I have your JUNK.
Thank You
Jim

SLLLOOOOOOWWWWW

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: February 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I got this game from a freind for free awhile back. The graphics are pritty good but the character movements are EXTREMELY slow. The characters walk all the time. The battles are pritty lame too because all of the movements are slow. In my opinion its not even worth getting for free, which is how I got it.

Thick on Graphics, Thin on Plot

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 11 / 16
Date: November 28, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I was expecting a lot more from Return to Krondor when I bought it. While the graphics and sound effects are excellent, I was disappointed with the short running time of the game. When I opened the CD case and saw that it was a 2 CD game, I thought, "Wow! This is going to take me forever to beat! Great!" Unfortunately, it did not. All the space, it seems, is taken up by the graphics, and the plot got left out. There are only 4 characters you get to play with, and maybe 2 or 3 towns you get to explore. I remember 2 side quests, but there may have been another one I'm forgetting about.

While the concept of the mage and/or the healer making their own potions is interesting, the player ends up wasting a lot of time fooling with the equipment, trying to find ingredients for the potions, and waiting . . . and waiting . . . and waiting for them to brew.

Betrayal at Krondor, its predecessor, while pretty weak graphically (but consider when it was made) had and EXCELLENT plot, with many side quests, multiple characters to play with, many game characters to interact with, and a lot of locations to visit.

If you're simply looking to sit in front of the PC for hours on end looking at the pretty colors on the screen, this is the game to get. If you'd like a game that is engrossing that you'll be fighting family members to get on the computer to play, I recommend getting its granddad, Betrayal at Krondor.

There's Better Out There

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 22, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I was expecting so much more from this game. I Betrayal at Antara was so much better. I bought RTK anticipating an even better experience. At first, I was pleased. The Gfx and Sfx are good. Moving about gets frustrating though since the controls are not intuitive and you quickly find yourself moving back and forth between screens. There are some instances where you simply can't see all of a screen at all. My biggest complaint though was that just as I was beginning to really get into the plot, the game ended! I was completely shocked. It was as if the developers simply reached a deadline and just ended the game. There were many loose ends regarding the plot. I wondered whether or not this meant another sequel is forthcoming. I won't buy it!

The books are better

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: April 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Having read the books and enjoyed them thoroughly, I bought the game.

At 25 I'm an avid gamer (I've been gaming since games were invented for the 386). I was disappointed. The graphics are ok but the game play is not the greatest. Fight scenes are awkward and there are too many items to use, that are not very useful.

There were just too many little things that annoyed me about this game, one of them being that there's no save-anywhere feature, you have to start at the beginning of the chapter.

The story is good, but it's like Return to Krondor for Dummies. Stick with reading the books, you'll probably be disappointed with the game.

Poorly executed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

To start, I had to be on line w/ Sierra tech support for about an hour before giving up in desperation and sending them an e-mail before this game would work. Sierra tech support is the most evil thing in the universe. But I digress. This game was awkward. The plot seemed weird and random, so that if you did one wrong thing you lost all your stuff and got in near-impossible fights. Also, the graphics were stiff and weird. For example, in combat, if you miss someone, your sword still plunges straight through the enemy. Overall, it lacks stability and quality.

Anticlimactic.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This has to be the most horribly produced game from Sierra I've ever played. The storyboard artists and creators must have been off their rocker. The graphics were pretty, the battles were somewhat exciting, but the delivery fell completely short. The combat and stats were horribly unbalanced, to the point where when I played the game the first time, I found it extremely difficult, and the second time I played it, it was a breeze just because I spent time levelling my characters up. The voice acting was mediocre. The story sounds promising in the beginning, especially with this series' reputation, but it finds itself to be completely anticlimactic in the end. So if you like pretty graphics and good music only in a game, pick this one up perhaps. But I'd rather just throw Lord of the Rings in my DVD player, because this is a sore excuse for a game or a story.

Fun, but also disappointing.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have been a fan of this genre since my first brainwahing, which happened to be by 'Betrayal at Krondor', nearly seven years ago. The game was enveloping for several reasons. First, the graphics were state of the art for the time. Second, the story allowed some divergence from the plot without negative consequences. Third, the plot was well developed and engendered emotional ties to the characters. Finally, it was plain fun and challenging.

Return to Krondor had big shoes to fill, no doubt. However, while I found the game enjoyable, I did not find it enveloping. It was missing several components which made the first so great. The plot was very static, with very few and very minor diversions made available. Explorers don't seem welcome. Second, the plot and character development seemed very thin. At the end, I didn't care much about the folks in the story. Finally, it was too short, which is probably a function of the lack of divergences. When you have no fun side paths, you head great guns toward the finish line.

Nevertheless, perhaps the notion that I thought it was too short is a mark in its favor. I wanted more.

Great play, Disappointing Plot

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I played Betrayal At Krondor and I played it twice more, just for the plot. It was like reading your favourite book over and over again. But Return to Krondor was disappointing. The graphics and the sound were great, but where is that sense of adventure that was present in Betrayal? RTK is extremely thin on the plot, though the introduction led me to expect more out of the plot, with the mysterious Tear of Ishap etc. And favourite characters like Jimmy the Hand became much like a string puppet, walking only where the game wants you to. I didn't like that. The character upgrades were faster than Betrayal but for an avid fan of the Raymond E. Feist's books on Krondor, it was a great disappointment. It almost felt like the author was withholding much of the plot so that he had something to write in his new book, which left the gamers with little. If the plot was better developed, it would have been a longer game but well worth it.

You need to play it more than once to appreciate it

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: July 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I played the game three times and only on the third time found it in me to deviate from the path the plot was forcing on me and explore around a bit. The reward was unexpected: the game has a lot more plot than originally appears, you just need to poke around Krondor a little bit in the first three chapters. Although mildly frustrating, I found it also somehow appealing that all the little sub-plots were so deeply hidden that you had to really abandon the compelling main storyline and search around. The game is by itself one big puzzle. That's what I liked about it, and that's what I think many people don't know. My advice: for maximum enjoyment, don't race to finish the game. The first time I played it, I was done in four days (playing two or three hours a day). The third time around, it took me two weeks (playing up to four hours a day). It's worth it.

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