Also on CVG today is a preview of Reflexive's/Black Isle's alternate timeline RPG Lionheart.
Here's a little about the game's background:The game dredges up a spoonful of history beginning just after the 12th century, throws it into a centrifuge, and spins up a bizarre and warped look at the World-of-What-If. What if, in the year 1192, Richard the Lionheart, King of all England, crusaded across Europe, eventually breaking the walls of the Middle Eastern city of Acre while the occupants starved? Oh. He did. So, what if these events precipitated the slaughter of some 3,000 Muslims? Uh, yeah, that too. But what if this slaughter precipitated a ritual known as the Disjunction, which introduced magic to the formerly boring Mediterranean? Aha! At last, fantasy. This event released spirits that eventually spread, invoking hordes of dark creatures and causing large-scale disorder. |