Secret of the Silver Blades

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Description

The heroes from Pool of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds return once again. This time, they arrive naked via a magical well inside a frozen town wishing for heroes to help them. The party once again attempts to save a town under siege (once re-equipped) and struggles to learn the secret of the Silver Blades...

The gameplay is quite similar to that of the previous Gold Box games. Following the AD&D rules of role-playing, the player creates a party of characters (up to the maximum of six). Exploration takes place in pseudo-3D environments, from first-person view. Battles (random as well as pre-set) take the player-controlled and enemy party to a top-down battle screen. Commands are issued in turn-based fashion, and the player-controlled characters can freely navigate the battle field. Unlike the previous games, there is no "world map" traveling in Secret of the Silver Blades. All the exploration takes place in the 3D world.

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Alternate Titles

• "Secret of the Silver Blades - A Forgotten Realms™ Fantasy Role-Playing Epic, Vol. III" -- Tag-lined title

Part of the Following Groups

• Dungeons & Dragons Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms
• Dungeons & Dragons (D&D / AD&D) licensees
• Fantasy Creatures: Dragons
• Fantasy Creatures: Dwarves
• Fantasy Creatures: Elves
• Gameplay feature: Character development - Automatic leveling
• Gameplay feature: Importable characters
• Gold Box series
• Pool of Radiance series
• Protagonist: Female

User Reviews

The Gold Box series has rusted.	DOS	woods01 (163)
My favorite of the Gold Box series	DOS	Paul Kostrzewa (15)

Critic Reviews

Games-X	Amiga	Jul 18, 1991		80
Dragon	DOS	Nov, 1990		80
Power Play	DOS	Aug, 1990	79 out of 100	79
Power Play	Amiga	Nov, 1991	78 out of 100	78
Amiga Joker	Amiga	Sep, 1991	65 out of 100	65
Joker Verlag präsentiert: Sonderheft	DOS	1992	56 out of 100	56
Joker Verlag präsentiert: Sonderheft	Amiga	1992	56 out of 100	56
Amiga Power	Amiga	Oct, 1991	8 out of 100	8
Australian Commodore and Amiga Review	Commodore 64	Sep, 1990	Unscored	Unscored
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	DOS	Oct, 1990	Unscored	Unscored

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Trivia

The box artwork is adapted from a 1988 painting by fantasy painter Larry Elmore entitled "Bloodstone Lands".