It’s not all about the chat though and across on the combat side you find yourself sorted with a sword – at least to begin with – but that soon goes out of the window and you are left to gather up your own weapons.

These are vital too, as, for example, when you meet other characters your charisma and speech levels will help you persuade or trick a person into getting exactly what you want. You will however need to decide on what attributes you wish your character to focus on, with all the usual strength, charisma and more in place. This is where the quest markers and side quests of Kingdom Come: Deliverance begin to open up, and it’s up to you to decide exactly what you what you do first. Then there is a terrible event that shakes the resolve of your hero and turns his world upside down… You have to get some coal from your father, throw some manure at a neighbour’s house and take back an axe from a drunkard.

In this gentle opening, you walk around in a delightful first person viewpoint, exploring the world at your leisure. Set in Skalitz, Bohemia in 1403, when the countryside erupted with violence due to the imprisonment of the rightful King Wenceslas IV by his power-hungry brother Sigismund, you find yourself playing as the son of a blacksmith whose main worries in life are surviving a hangover from the night before and getting jiggy with Bianca, the local barmaid.

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