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

Perspective

1st-Person Perspective, Top-Down

Theme

Fantasy

Misc

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3.5

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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 Main map screen that you spend most of your time

Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance Windows Your advisors

Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance Windows Cutscene of the big battle

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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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The Press Says

PC Jeux	Jun, 1997	82 out of 100	82
Game.EXE	Aug, 1997	80 out of 100	80
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	Aug 23, 1997		80
GameSpot	Sep 05, 1997	7.7 out of 10	77
Jeuxvideo.com	May 07, 2010	14 out of 20	70
Gamezilla	1996	68 out of 100	68
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Dec, 1997		60
Svenska PC Gamer	Dec, 1997	58 out of 100	58
Power Play	Sep, 1997	57 out of 100	57
PC Player (Denmark)	1998	4 out of 10	40