Knights and Merchants: The Shattered Kingdom
Knights and Merchants recreates the era of the Middle Ages. Apart from the purely fictitious geography of our world, all game elements and scenes are based on the Anglo-Saxon period, 1200 A.D. And we haven't…
Knights and Merchants: The Shattered Kingdom is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Joymania Entertainment, released 18 September 1998 on Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Knights and Merchants: The Shattered Kingdom is
Knights and Merchants: The Shattered Kingdom is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Joymania Entertainment and released in 1998. It was published by Interactive Magic. It is available on Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Knights and Merchants recreates the era of the Middle Ages. Apart from the purely fictitious geography of our world, all game elements and scenes are based on the Anglo-Saxon period, 1200 A.D. And we haven't used imaginary elements like fabled creatures, either. The player takes on the role of an ordinary captain in the Palace Guard. A conspiracy against the king catapults the captain into a situation where he finds himself responsible for the defence of the last royal province. This is all that remains of the shattered kingdom, which has been split into numerous small principalities and fiefdoms. And now even the king himself, ensconced in his capital, is threatened by enemy armies. This…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel or AMD Singlecore CPU, 512 MB RAM and 3D graphics card with DirectX 9.0c support. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Knights and Merchants: The Shattered Kingdom launched on 18 September 1998, within three weeks of Metal Gear Solid, Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition, MediEvil I and Future Cop: LAPD.
Released around the same time: Metal Gear Solid, Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition, MediEvil I, Future Cop: LAPD.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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