In demo proven, a letter invites us to explore a mysterious mansion in search of a portal that seems to have been opened inside it and, responding to the request, we can choose whether to undertake the mission as “Agentis” or as “Special Agent” and this choice changes considerably the development of the action: in the first case we simply have to locate and close the portal, with the second option, on the other hand, various secondary objectives are activated, such as finding and returning the documents relating to the ownership of the building and avoiding civilian losses.Ī Kingdom of the Dead image with the standard creatures attacking in the first level The nine levels that make up the game don’t seem like many, but they can be covered in different ways offering a certain freedom of exploration and also allowing you to modify part of the missions according to different objectives set at the beginning. elements but always in a very elementary way (opening locks, freeing hostages or something like that). In fact, all we have to do is move within the three-dimensional environments and take out everything that comes at us in a threatening way, collecting weapons and ammunition from killed enemies and crates arranged in the scenarios or occasionally interacting in various ways with others. Kingdom of the Dead is a first person shooter in the most classic sense of the term, proudly returning, and just as the concept behind the project, in the most traditional stylistic features of the gameplay of the kind of belonging.
The sword, visible in the image, is a sentient weapon that characterizes Kingdom of the Dead The protagonist of Kingdom of the Dead is one of these: the agent Chamberlain is a professor who became general of the army and immediately recalled to service after the end of hostilities to take part in another even more demanding war, this time against the armies of Death. section that must remain top secret, for obvious reasons. To cope with the invasion of strange and disturbing presences that occurred in various areas of the country, the United States government created a secret program called Gatekeeper, also hiring various ex-soldiers who distinguished themselves during the war to act as an armed wing for this. Are in 1867 in America, just shortly after the end of the Civil War and in a country still devastated and to be rebuilt and re-assembled we find ourselves also having to face a metaphysical threat which, in some areas of the east coast in particular, seems to have also become decidedly physical. The threat we are dealing with in Kingdom of the Dead is Death himself, in a somewhat peculiar context. Story of a strange government agent Kingdom of the Dead, an outdoor game scene The game action is fast and relatively simple, recovering the stylistic features of Classic FPS, but what characterizes the whole is certainly the strange atmosphere that you breathe, able to transport us into what seems a sort of interactive graphic novel, with very little narration and a lot of action, but presented in an extremely stylish way, able to make new a gaming experience that, in fact, is perhaps among the oldest at this point, while still remaining perfectly valid.Įverything is inserted within a rather small production that leads to a limited number of contents, which however lend themselves to being replayed several times following different paths. The Kingdom of the Dead gameplay experience lies at the meeting of these two antithetical sensations, making it particularly interesting. Original, to the point of representing a truly bizarre sight to behold, there is instead its appearance, which was built to look like hand drawn, ink and black and white, with a very peculiar effect. Extremely traditional is its gameplay, which deliberately recalls the roots of historical first person shooters, Doom, Hexen or Painkiller, to stay on the horror theme. It is not easy to find something that is very classic and also totally original at the same time, but the Kingdom of the Dead tried gave us this strange feeling from the very first minutes.