King Arthur Gets Character Focused Fallen Champions

Neocore Games, as the developer, and Paradox Interactive, as the publisher, have announced that they are working on yet another installment in the King Arthur franchise, called Fallen Champions, which is set to bridge the historic gap between the first game in the series and King Arthur II.

The game will be delivered on the PC and will be standalone, meaning that players will not have to already be fans of the King Arthur series to get and play it.

It is set to cost 9.99 dollars when it launches and will arrive at some point during the third quarter of this year.

King Arthur: Fallen Champions is built around three main characters, a knight, an enchantress and a prophet who are set to travel to the mysterious lands that lie just beyond the Forest of Bedegraine in order to fulfill their individual quests and also change the make up of the world.

The knight is Sir Lionel, a fighter coming from Britannia, who is looking to save the archetypical damsel in distress.

Lady Corrigan of the Sidhe is an enchantress that seeks a way to get home while Drest the Chosen is a prophet of the North who is drawn by voices towards exploration.

Each of the characters will fight battles and enter adventures, each designed specifically for them, in order to advance in the game and to push the story forward and all of them will take part in a huge final battle which the developers say happens “under extraordinary circumstances”.

King Arthur II is set to be launched later during 2011 and will be an evolution of the concepts seen in the first game in the series.

All the battlemaps are bigger and more varied and there's a deeper and darker story which focuses more on the fantasy element of Britannia, with King Arthur wounded and the world around him assaulted by darkness.