Undead Knights

PlayStation exclusive

Playing as the anti-hero, you rage through the wrath of fearless enemies and build the nastiest and most profane army you can think of in this new-style invasion action game. Prepare to wash the mouth of your army with soap as they can't help but engage in zombie bashing dialog over a raging metal soundtrack that helps your channel your inner anger. If you can deal with the gut-wrenching, Smack-talking, fluid-spitting, and limb amputating ways of your army, you can embark on your journey of vengeance to defeat the king.

Released: 29 September 2009
Platforms: PlayStation Portable
Genres: Action-adventure Fighting Zombie
Developers: —
Publishers: Koei Tecmo Holdings
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Themes: Action
Country: Japan
Age ratings: GRAC 19+PEGI 16 CERO C ESRB M
Languages: English, Japanese

About

Undead Knights (アンデッドナイツ, Andeddo Naitsu) is an action-adventure video game developed by Team Tachyon and Now Production and published by Tecmo for the PlayStation Portable. It was released in North America and Japan in 2009 and in the PAL region in 2010.

Keywords

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Media

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Gameplay

Undead Knights is an action-adventure game similar to God of War. The player's goal is to eliminate all enemies. The player can perform melee attacks, chain multiple attacks to make combos, and dispatch enemies in quick time events.

Story

The story follows three knights—Romulus Blood (Keith Ferguson), his younger brother Remus (Andrew Kashino), and Remus's wife Sylvia Gradis (Megan Hollingshead), princess of Cavalier—as they seek revenge against King Kirk Gladys (Steve Blum) and his wife Fatima (Wendy Braun) for slaughtering the House of Blood. Romulus is a human knight and former head of the House of Blood who made a Faustian bargain with an invisible demon known as The Beast (Steve Blum). The knights are revived as necromancers who can turn their enemies into undead soldiers.

The trio fights Duke Gloucester, a former war hero who became a corrupt glutton. He attempts to kill them with a demon but fails. The group discovers they have become more demonic as they bargain with The Beast.

Reception

The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, however, Famitsu gave it a score of three eights and one seven for a total of 31 out of 40.

Reviewers expressed extreme opinions about the most controversial elements of the game. Some scorned the inconsistencies with the decorum of the genre and condemned the mixture of its heavy metal soundtrack as well as its vulgar language incongruous with the game's fantasy medieval environment. Others praised the game and its story for evoking cathartic experiences.