Maybe that is because the individual levels never felt repetitive. The story mode is also relatively meaty clocking in at around 10-12 hours, and really, it felt longer to me. Things of note happen, and there are twists and turns aplenty, but by the end of the game I was just anxious to get past all the talking so I could get back to carving up more knights, archers, French soldiers, Hashishin, Muslim Crusaders, mercenaries, inquisitors, dogs, and the occasional troll-human hybrid (apparently the Dominican Inquisition was sitting on some major genetic discoveries that they didn’t tell anyone about and only used to make monsters - par for the course in stories like this one). I’m sure the aforementioned dull voice acting didn’t help.
Overall this story of the Holy Grail and men who seek to find and/or protect it is acceptable in the way it’s told through cut-scenes and in-game dialogue, however it lacks a certain spark. Along the way they fight a lot of dudes and uncover a few shocking secrets that explain the game’s odd title in more detail. However, that doesn’t mean The First Templar is a bad game you just need to understand that it can’t compete with the big-budget titles of the world, and was probably never meant to.ĭeveloped by Bulgaria’s largest game developer, Haemimont Games, The First Templar follows the exploits of Templars Celian d’Arestide, Roland (who is so badass, he doesn’t even get a last name), and accused heretic and witch Marie d’Ibelin as they chase the Holy Grail across Europe and the Middle East. Every second you’re playing it you’re reminded, whether by the goofy animations, dull voice acting, or the excruciatingly average graphics, that it’s a title that just never had the chance that other, better games get when they have more money thrown at them. If you were to find yourself playing The First Templar, aside from an absolutely gorgeous title screen, you’d hold no grand illusions that you were playing a triple-A game either. The First Templar is not a triple-A game, and it holds no grand illusions otherwise.
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