Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance (Windows)
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Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance DOS Front Cover

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Published by

Sierra On-Line, Inc.

Developed by

Synergistic Software, Inc.

Released

1996

Also For

DOS | Combined View

ESRB Rating

Teen

Genre

Role-Playing (RPG), Strategy/Tactics

Perspective

1st-person, Top-down

Setting

Fantasy

Misc

Licensed

Critic Score

100 point score based on reviews from various critics.

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3.6

User Score

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Description

Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance is a strategy role-playing game based on TSR's Birthright world of Anuire. It combines first person dungeon and castle quests, tactical real-time graphical battles, and complex economic and diplomatic strategy. Play against challenging computer opponents or other cunning human players.

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Screenshots

Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance Windows Dungeon battle!

Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance Windows Detailed map view of your holdings

Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance Windows The chess-like class of the armies (note the interface in the lower right)

Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance Windows Your advisors

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Promo Images

Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance Screenshot

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Alternate Titles

"Birthright: Le Pacte des Ténèbres" -- French Title
"Birthright: Die Dunkle Allianz" -- German title

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Part of the Following Group

Dungeons & Dragons (D&D / AD&D) licensees

User Reviews

An amazing, powerful game combining a strategy level and first-person roleplaying quests, unfortunately ahead of its time and crippled by bugs.	weregamer (157)
An ambitious effort that attempts to be a lot of everything but ends up being much of nothing.	Zen Gamer (72)

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Critic Reviews

Electric Games	1997	89 out of 100	89
Gameplay (Benelux)	Nov, 1997	84 out of 100	84
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	Aug 23, 1997		80
GameSpot	Sep 05, 1997	7.7 out of 10	77
Gamezilla	1996	68 out of 100	68
PC Games (Germany)	Oct, 1997	62 out of 100	62
Svenska PC Gamer	Dec, 1997	58 out of 100	58
Power Play	Sep, 1997	57 out of 100	57
PC Player (Germany)	Jan, 1998	46 out of 100	46
PC Player (Denmark)	1998	4 out of 10	40