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Games List Archive. Die by the Sword is a third-person action game set a medieval fantasy world. The player controls Enric, a knight whose sweetheart Maya was kidnapped by kobolds and who swears to bring her back. The game's distinguishing feature is its sword-fighting system, which allows detailed and precise control of the player character's moves, giving it a fighting game flavor. The combat system in the game is extremely developed, and therefore the hand is directly controlled by a special technique, inflicting cutting and stabbing blows.

Also, you can deflect the opponent's blows by placing the blade in a certain position. Over time, previously unseen opponents will appear, including strange fish-men, insect-like monsters, and lava creatures. Each of them needs a special approach, finding vulnerabilities, and attacking on the sly.

In addition to the training mode and the main story campaign, a specialized Arena is available in "Die by the Sword" that dilutes the gameplay. In it, the gamer is given a choice of one of eight available characters. The story goes little further than that during the game. Further information on Maya's fate ahead of Enric is given between areas in short movies, and in one or two in-game cut-scenes, eventually revealing some of the reason behind her abduction although more is given in the background featured in the game manual.

Of course, the story is to little degree the focus of the game. Rather, this is a game of combat, cunning and observation, of weapons clashing, traps evaded and secret passages. It is in combat that Die by the Sword specializes, appropriately enough. Another game might keep the player's interest with myriad types of monster, or swarms of foes, or a variety of weapons and spells with which to customize one's play. Die By the Sword, on the other hand, offers fairly few types of monster, and usually in groups of about one to four.

Enric's only weapon is his sword unless you count the severed limbs of your foes, which can be picked up and used to beat the enemy, the limbs' erstwhile owners included, should they still be alive. There are precious few power-ups to be found, aside from a variety of health-restoratives.

Instead it is through the fighting itself that Die by the Sword offers its main challenge. The creatures faced may approach only cautiously, or attempt to move around the player, and may have more than one attack animation. Some may even turn and run for a time if disarmed a phrase which in this game, as has been suggested, takes on quite a literal meaning The player's movement is handled simply. The 'w' and 's' keys move Enric forward and backwards, while the 'q' and 'e' keys have him step to the left and right, and the 'a' and 'd' keys turn him left and right.

There is a jump key and a crouch key the former of which holds him in a crouch until release of the key has him leap up , and a key which instructs Enric to attempt to climb onto an object.

When his sword is sheathed by yet another key, there is one more to instruct him to interact with the world, such as in picking up an item, opening a door or pulling a lever. This, however, should not sound terribly unfamiliar to action gamers.

It is the combat controls that can be another story. There are two modes of control for combat. Firstly, for those who wish to use a perhaps simpler-to-use system, there is also the "arcade" mode, which makes use of a simplified set of combat controls, in which three keys map to three predefined swings a high, middle and and overhead slash , while three others define three blocking moves. Under this system the player is given more direct control over Enric's sword-arm than in the arcade mode.

Instead of a single button being responsible for an entire sword stroke, the controls one can choose to use the numeric keypad, mouse, or a joystick command the position of the sword arm. For instance, when using the keypad, pressing the '9' key has Enric move his sword to a high position, with his shoulder turned to his right the sword ending up behind him.

While the game was well received by critics, the PC releases of Eidos's popular Tomb Raider franchise overshadowed and crippled Treyarch's sales figures. In large part, this was due to what are widely viewed as very difficult controls, challenging gameplay and a steep learning curve for novice players. Die by the Sword also offered deathmatch and cooperative multiplayer play in its arena mode, where players could stage fights with up to three other players.

The official expansion pack Limb from Limb was released on December 31, and added another main quest for the single-player campaign, enhanced multiplayer through a selection of significantly more creative arenas, and introduced new playable characters such as the Minotaur. Die by the Sword Free Download. The game allows the player to fully control their sword arm, removing the need for pre-recorded animations and statistically based gameplay.

Instead, a physically correct model is used for each avatar and each weapon, and both movement and damage are calculated through forces. The sword arm can be controlled by using a joystick, the numeric keypad, or a mouse. For example, with the keyboard, to perform a slashing attack with the default key combination, a player would press the '4' and '6' keys on the numeric keypad in succession.