Platforms
- PlayStation 3Feb 22, 20116.0playscore5.012 Critics6.7181 Players
- Xbox 360Feb 22, 20116.1playscore5.311 Critics6.5173 Players
17 critic reviews · 0 community reviews across all platforms
Critic Reviews
- Knights Contract almost redeems itself with an interesting story line, and an unexpected ending, but the total lack of fun throughout the game means you’ll need to torture yourself to experience it. Magic spells have a stylish flair which genuinely looks fantastic, but as I’ll always say, beauty isn’t everything, and the lack of real substance underneath ruins it.
Tyler Minarik · May 13, 2011 Reviewed on PS3Read full review - Knights Contract could have been so much more than it is now. The story truly is imaginative and the combat system makes destroying your foes loads of fun. But it’s in the details where the experience falls apart. Unforgiving quick-time events, unintelligent AI, frustrating cheap deaths, and confusing level design are just a few problems
Jason Jasicki · Mar 23, 2011 Reviewed on X360 - Knights Contract is far too rough around the edges to be worth its asking price. The needlessly frequent cutscenes interrupt the game's flow, combat against the majority of enemies requires little thought, and you'll be constantly fighting either the camera or the level design
Game Trailers · Mar 22, 2011 Reviewed on X360 - Judging from this and the similar recent release Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom, Game Republic seems to have a thing for stretched-out escort missions-as-games. But if it's going to convince us that that particular trope is truly a worthy of a full game, it's going to have to do much better than this.
Mike Schiller · Mar 01, 2011 Reviewed on X360 - With erratic pacing and often-aggravating boss fights, Knights Contract doesn't always feel like a worthwhile adventure. Yet though the flashy combat isn't very complex, it's fun to wield your deadly weapon and powerful magic spells in brutal tandem. The problematic gameplay elements can dampen this fun, but the stylish artistic design and interesting story help counterbalance these issues
Chris Watters · Feb 28, 2011 Reviewed on PS3, X360Read full review - It completely blows up a cool premise with maddeningly stupid AI (a death sentence in a game that’s a glorified escort mission), a terrible camera that enables its unfair (and un-fun) instant kills, and a boss battle formula that should have never made past the first month of development
Levi Buchanan · Feb 24, 2011 Reviewed on PS3Read full review - Even when the game seems to be working against me at every inopportune time, the drive to see the fate of Heinrich and Gretchen made me push forward. I’m glad I did. I didn’t see the ending coming. It's a satisfying reward at the end of a punishing journey
Andrew Reiner · Feb 22, 2011 Reviewed on PS3, X360 - It has fast, intuitive combat, cool, creepy environments, splashy visual effects, good music, solid voice acting, and a story that's fairly fresh, as far as action games go. The sad thing is that all that is undermined by bumbling AI, absurdly difficult and frustrating bosses, and a maze-like approach to level design
Neilie Johnson · Feb 22, 2011 Reviewed on PS3, X360Read full review - Knights Contract does very few new things, but it does a handful of old things quite well. The combat, for the most part, is satisfying and visceral, and the story, at times, is genuinely compelling. A mostly entertaining experience, it’s marred by some terrible flaws and a handful of moments of unadulterated rage; much, we’d expect, like actually selling one’s soul
Alan Bradley · Feb 22, 2011 Reviewed on PS3, X360Read full review - Knights Contract is essentially one, giant escort mission plagued by a myriad of gripes including horrendous AI. and repetitive combat. Despite its interesting concept, there is not enough on offer to salvage the game from the sheer magnitude of problems encountered throughout
Adam Dolge · Mar 03, 2011 Reviewed on PS3Read full review
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In a time of swordsmen and magic, Knights Contract follows the twisted tale of Heinrich, an immortal executioner, and Gretchen, a resurrected witch. Once the victim of Heinrich's blade by the order of the game's antagonist, Dr. Faust, Gretchen now has him under her control as the two must work together to rid the land of the supernatural foes who are cursing its people with the black spell of death.
Developer: Game Republic