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

Amiga Action	Amiga	Sep, 1991	87 out of 100	87
Compute!	Commodore 64	Nov, 1990		85
Games-X	Amiga	Jul 18, 1991		80
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	DOS	Jul, 1990	9.2 out of 12	77
Datormagazin	Amiga	Oct 10, 1991	76 out of 100	76
Power Play	Commodore 64	Sep, 1990	76 out of 100	76
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	DOS	Aug, 1990	650 out of 1000	65
Joker Verlag präsentiert: Sonderheft	DOS	1992	56 out of 100	56
Your Commodore	Commodore 64	Oct, 1990	46 out of 100	46
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	DOS	Oct, 1990	Unscored	Unscored

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Trivia

US Gold were so incensed at a negative review given to the game by Amiga Power magazine that they immediately cut off all contact with the magazine. For at least 2 years they never sent them preview information or review copies of their games, and never involved their journalists in promotional deals.