Knightshift

by MacPlay

Product Features

• Exciting RPG and RTS adventure in a mystic, fantasy world
• Take control over heroes and lead them to victory and honor
• Fully 3-D game environment; breathtaking graphics and effects
• 20+ varying and thrilling missions with hundreds of quests
• 80+ different characters and creatures; 500+ objects and structures

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00026S5HW
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: June 1, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #71,232 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #56 in Video Games > Mac Games > Role-Playing
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

KnightShift offers the best of conventional RPG and RTS games in a mystic world, full of fantasy and imagination. The player takes control over heroes, real or magic characters, and leads them to victory and honor.

Set in a living, fully three-dimensional game environment, KnightShift bewitches your PC with breathtaking graphics and effects. What this engine shows you today wasn't seen before in a game--only in some graphic benchmarks and demos.

The unique combination of RTS and RPG elements in the SP campaigns, the hardcore gamer dedicated RPG mode for Single and Multiplayer matches, and the unique humor of KnightShift brings real innovation into today's gaming world.

Features:

• Unique, living world of fantasy
• An exciting story with amazing characters
• Over 20 varying and thrilling missions with hundreds of quests
• Addictive RPG Mode for SP and MP challenge
• Development of character's skills, strength, and equipment
• Hundreds of unparalleled, surprising spells, weapons, and equipment
• Easy-to-learn intuitive user interface
• More than 80 different characters and creatures
• More than 500 objects and structures
• Fully three-dimensional animated environment
• Multiplayer RPG and RTS battles over EarthNet
• Game-world editor for own fantasy environments
• Full DirectXtm9 sound and graphics support
• 3D sound and Dolby 5.1 support

Gameplay:

Do you like real-time strategy? Or are role-playing games your preference. Why not try both genres in one--or even both separately? In one game: KnightShift!

The Single Player RTS part of the game consists of three addictive, story-driven campaigns. Each of them takes place in a different geographical area and bounds you every minute with new challenges like rescuing a kidnapped princess or fighting a ferocious dragon--or combat with nasty, ugly, smelly monsters and the bones of the walking dead.

During the campaigns players develop their characters and gain access to new weapons, special armor, and magic items. They also have the possibility of creating new characters or building new structures. All characters controlled by the player gain experience and go "level-up", increasing their combat potential and magical abilities. The characters may also find special items and weapons, armor, and magical amulets, helping them to increase and enhance their skills.

Additionally, an extensive RPG mode surprises with an even larger selection of maps, quests, weapons, and enemies, plus a highly improved character development. Skills selection, merchandise, the hiring of helpful characters, and character inventories. This RPG Mode for experienced gamers can be played alone or over the Internet in companion network matches.

For RTS fans and friends of massive multiplayer battles, several RTS skirmish and MP modes guarantee endless hours of exciting gameplay.

Multiplayer

Network games allow the participation of up to eight players per match and 65,000 players per server. Available connection types are: IPX, TCP/IP or EarthNet. Internet play is established using the EarthNet server system.

The servers support meeting and chatting with other gamers, viewing statistics data of other players, and setting up network games. Every player on the server has his/her own account protected by a password. With each server account up to eight self developed RPG characters with their own inventory, skills, and level ups can be managed. League and Companion MP matches are supported.

MP matches are possible in RTS Battle, RTS destroy structure, and RPG adventure mode with predefined or self-created maps and modes.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Major dissapintment, January 22, 2007

By 

Diana Lee (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Knightshift (CD-ROM)

Bad graphics, and slow interface turn this into a real plodder. I only played the RPG version and not the RTS, but I was board within minutes. When compared to Neverwinter Nights... well, it's not even worthy of the comparison. It doesn't even come close to the original Baldur's Gate, and that is three generations of RPG back.
I personally found it annoying that I couldn't choose the gender of my character, and that the character portraits were, lets face it, ugly. There is nothing to customize in character generation, and skills can only improve along one dimension. I could go on, but why bother?
Artamas