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Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance (Windows)
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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 Detailed map view of your holdings
Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance Windows Dungeon battle!
Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance Windows Your advisors
Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance Windows The chess-like class of the armies (note the interface in the lower right)
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Alternate Titles

  • "Birthright: Le Pacte des Ténèbres" -- French Title
  • "Birthright: Die Dunkle Allianz" -- German title
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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) 3.6 Stars3.6 Stars3.6 Stars3.6 Stars3.6 Stars
An ambitious effort that attempts to be a lot of everything but ends up being much of nothing. Zen Gamer (72) 2 Stars2 Stars2 Stars2 Stars2 Stars
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The Press Says

Electric Games 1997 89 out of 100 89
PC Joker Oct, 1997 81 out of 100 81
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault) Aug 23, 1997 4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars 80
GameSpot Sep 05, 1997 7.7 out of 10 77
Computer Games Magazine 1997 3.5 Stars3.5 Stars3.5 Stars3.5 Stars3.5 Stars 70
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
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Trouble downloading on a Windows 7 computer 4 Indra is here (19812)
May 20, 2011
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Zhentarim7 (182) added Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance (Windows) on May 04, 2000
Other platforms contributed by *Katakis* (37849)

Credits

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