Betrayal at Krondor 1993
Dynamix released Betrayal at Krondor for IBM PC MS-DOS in 1993. Betrayal at Krondor is a well-written cRPG set in Raymond E. Feist's Midkemia of Riftwar. Betrayal at Krondor was designed by John Cutter, programmed by Nels Bruckner, composed by Jan Paul Moorhead and written by Neil Hallford and Raymond E. Feist.
Betrayal at Krondor is technically notable for its zoomable 3D map-view, 3D first-person exploration view and animated digitized graphics. Betrayal at Krondor also features a 3-layered inventory mode with drag and drop.
Betrayal at Krondor's turn-based combat features grid-based movement, ranged and melee to-hit and damage, initiative, spellcasting and weapon and armor modifiers.
Other Betrayal at Krondor Features
- Nine-chapter Campaign
- 4x interface screens: map, combat, inventory, travel
- 4x interface sub-screens: encamp, spellcasting, puzzle, stats
- Characters constituted by 4x stats and 12x skills
- Combat: Thrust & Swing in melee, fire crossbow and cast spell
- Traps & Locks: Moredhel Lockchest Puzzles
- 38x spells and 33x enemy-types
- Shops, Taverns, Inns & Temples
- 5x on-hit visual effects
- Tailor step size, turn size and text speed in 3 levels
- 4x levels of graphics detail
- Toggleable sound, music, combat music, CD music & intro
- Hardware mouse cursor
- Icon-driven interface
Even though its design is clumsy Betrayal at Krondor is an undeniable classic. Betrayal at Krondor is one of the few pre-Fallout cRPGs that I would recommend playing through in 2025.
Overall, 7½/10.
Betrayal at Krondor Chapters
- Into a Dark Night
- Shadow of the Nighthawks
- The Spyglass and the Spider
- Marked for Death
- When Rivers Run Blood
- Betrayal
- The Long Ride
- Of Lands Afar
- Mad God's Rage
Betrayal at Krondor Technical
Betrayal at Krondor displays in 256-color VGA 320x200. Some of the writing displays in 640x400. The 3D exploration and 2D battlefield drawspace sizes are 294x100px.
Betrayal at Krondor requires an i80386SX 16 MHz CPU, 604,160 bytes of free conventional memory and 1,048,576 bytes of EMS memory (2 megs of RAM). Betrayal at Krondor supports Microsoft's SMARTDRV.EXE for disk-caching.
Betrayal at Krondor was distributed by Sierra On-Line on 7x 3.5" 1.44 MB HD diskettes and extracts and installs to hard disk drive via Dynamix Inc. Install/Setup. The install size is 15 megs and consists of 19 files.
Betrayal at Krondor audio supports Roland MT-32, MT-100, LAPC-1, CM-32L or CM64; General MIDI Sound Driver; Sound Blaster card; Sound Blaster / AdLib card; IBM PC Internal Speaker.
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