The game was first announced as a Kickstarter title back in 2014 and generated almost $2 million dollars (AUD) in pledges. Modern hardware has allowed developers to embrace their creativity and craft worlds and stories that capture a gamer’s imagination, and one of the first games this year hoping to captivate the hearts and minds of gamers is Kingdom Come: Deliverance, a realistic open-world role-playing game set during the Kingdom of Bohemia in 1403 and the debut game from Czech development team Warhorse Studios.

Titles such as Grand Theft Auto V, The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt and Skyrim are all recent examples of games with incredible staying power due to the integrity of the worlds they feature. But thanks to the advanced technology found in today’s consoles and PCs it is a format that has become ubiquitous with modern game development, and talented developers the world over have crafted complete worlds for the hapless gamer to inhabit. In the salad days of gaming, only a modicum of developers were ambitious enough to try their hand at the open-world format, due to the restrictions of either budgets or hardware.

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