That being said, Blood Knights are arguably superior to Kavalos Deathriders, having a better profile, way more damage on the charge, they have the same Battleshock immunity your guys do and they have a better save against rend - weapons. If you're not going into Petrifex Elite and you don't have something to buff up a lone squad of Deathriders. The Blood Knights are an army of revolutionaries that played a significant role in the events of Digimon World 2. Most of the time it is in fact the Blood Knights that the player must fight against and win in order to progress.

Deck13 Interactive GmbH is a German video game developer and publisher based in Frankfurt. The company was founded in July 2001 by the team behind Artex Software, a studio that primarily developed video games for RISC OS, such as Ankh: The Tales of Mystery. Originally bearing the name TriggerLab, the company was renamed to Deck13 after the release of its first game, Stealth Combat, in 2002. Deck13 is best known for developing the action role-playing gamesLords of the Fallen and The Surge. Deck13 also operates a Hamburg-based subsidiary studio, Deck13 Hamburg.

History[edit]

Deck13 is the successor to Artex Software, a development team that created the game Ankh for RISC OS.^[2] The company was founded as TriggerLab in 2001 by Jan Klose and Florian Stadlbauer.^[3] TriggerLab developed Stealth Combat, which was first released in Germany on 25 February 2002; shortly thereafter, on 2 April 2002, the company was renamed as Deck13 Interactive.^[4] The name 'Deck13' was derived from 'DM-Deck16', a game map from Unreal Tournament (1999).^{[citation needed]}

In 2005, the humorous adventure gameAnkh was released, which was a remake of the 1997 game Ankh: The Tales of Mystery by Artex Software. As the product sold very well and won several awards (especially in Germany), the sequel Ankh: Heart of Osiris was produced and released almost exactly one year later, reusing elements of the previous title. In August 2007, the adventure game Jack Keane was released which was similar to the Ankh series in terms of graphics and gameplay but which was set in England and colonial India. The third part of the Ankh series, The Battle of the Gods, was released in Germany on 19 November 2007. One of their latest games, the role-playing game called Venetica was released in September 2009 and was the first RPG to be published by the company. Afterwards, Deck13 Interactive was working on Blood Knights, a comic hack-and-slash for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, which was released in 2013.^[5]

In 2015, Deck13 released Lords of the Fallen in co-operation CI Games. While a sequel was announced by the publisher, Deck13 was not named as the developer.^[6] Instead, the studio was announced to be working with Focus Home Interactive on the then-upcoming The Surge.^[7] In September 2016, managing director Florian Stadlbauer announced that he had left the company and had since replaced by Mathias Reichert.^[8] As of July 2018, the company employs 70 people.^[9]

Games developed[edit]

Cancelled[edit]

• The Mystery of the Seven Symbols
• Jade Rousseau: Die Geheimen Evangelien – Episode 2: Die Bruderschaft
• Jade Rousseau: Die Geheimen Evangelien – Episode 3: Das geheime Dossier
• Jade Rousseau: Die Geheimen Evangelien – Episode 4: Der Weg in die Finsternis
• Jade Rousseau: Die Geheimen Evangelien – Episode 5: Die Geister der Vergangenheit
• Jade Rousseau: Die Geheimen Evangelien – Episode 6: Der Zorn Gottes

Games published[edit]

See also[edit]

• Daedalic Entertainment – German adventure game developer
• House of Tales – German adventure game developer
• King Art Games – German adventure game developer

References[edit]

1. ^Fröhlich, Petra (10 January 2020). 'Die größten Spiele-Entwickler in Deutschland 2020' [The largest game developers in Germany 2020]. GamesWirtschaft (in German).
2. ^Böke, Ingmar (12 March 2018). 'Adventures in Germany and Beyond round table (Part 1) – Page 2'. Adventure Gamers.
3. ^''Das nächste große Ding' im Visier' [Aiming for 'the next big thing']. Frankfurter Neue Presse (in German). 20 August 2016.
4. ^'News'. TriggerLab (in German). 2002. Archived from the original on 8 October 2002. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
5. ^Sauer, Tom (1 November 2013). 'Blood Knights: Launch-Trailer mit Alysa zum heutigen Xbox 360-Release' [Blood Knights: Launch trailer with Alyse for today's Xbox 360 release]. PC Games (in German). Retrieved 23 September 2016.
6. ^Purchese, Robert (29 May 2015). 'Lords of the Fallen 2 to launch in 2017'. Eurogamer. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
7. ^'Latest Deck13 game officially announced as The Surge'. Focus Home Interactive. 7 August 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
8. ^'Deck 13-Crew segelt künftig ohne Florian Stadlbauer' [Deck 13 crew to sail without Florian Stadlbauer going forward]. GamesWirtschaft (in German). 1 September 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
9. ^'Deutschlands größte Spielehersteller 2018'. GamesWirtschaft (in German). 2 July 2018.

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Undead Knights (アンデッドナイツ) is a video game for the PlayStation Portable, developed by Team Tachyon, based on a medieval setting where the player is basically a zombie-creating overlord. There is an option to play as three characters, all who were brutally murdered by the order of the king and want revenge on him.

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Plot[edit]

The story follows a trio of knights: Romulus Blood (Keith Ferguson), a human knight and former head of the House of Blood who made a Faustian bargain with an unseen demon known as The Beast (Steve Blum), along with his younger brother Remus (Andrew Kashino) and Remus' wife and princess of Cavalier named Sylvia Gradis (Megan Hollingshead) while they are at the end of their lives after the entire House of Blood is slaughtered under the orders of the king Kirk Gladys (Also voiced by Steve Blum) and his charismatic, tyrannical wife Fatima (Wendy Braun). Over the course of the game, The Beast grants each of the three characters a second chance at life as necromancers with the ability to turn their still living enemies into undead soldiers.

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The trio first go after Duke Gloucester, a former war hero who became a corrupt glutton and fight against him. Gollaster attempted to send a demon out to kill them in a desperate attempt, but he was soon killed by the knights. The trio soon discover that as a result of the bargain with the Beast, they have started to become more demonic as they go on their path of revenge.

As the story progresses, each one of the three knights goes after several individuals responsible for taking part in their deaths and soon discover a fruit known as the Fruit of the Holy Tree, a demonic fruit that turns its user into a demon. Captain Gerrard, a leader of a trio of knights who praise Fatima as a saint, uses the Fruit of the Holy Tree after finding out his daughter was killed in a battle with the Undead Knights and becomes a giant demon known as the Nephilim. In his dying words, Gerard reveals that Fatima also controls a portion of undead servants of her own, having long since forsaken the land of Cavalier for her own selfish goals.

Later, the undead knights encounter various genetically engineered soldiers called Ouroboros created by the mad, egocentric wizard Lord Follis (Liam O'Brien), who attempted to convince the knights to join them, only to be told off. A battle ensues in which Follis uses the Fruit of the Holy Tree to mutate into a demon known as Venom Angel and is killed by the knights.

After the battle, Fatima's younger brother the Jester (Thomas Brownhead) reveals that Romulus was the one who was inadvertently responsible for the deaths of Sylvia and Remus. During the attack on the House of Blood, Romulus was one of the knights participating in the attack and was searching for the two of them in the midst of the chaos. When Kirk's knights captured them, Romulus summoned up all of his rage induced bloodlust and slaughtered everyone in his path, but accidentally killed Sylvia and Remus during his rampage. Having earned the forgiveness of Sylvia and Remus, the three knights go to finally confront The Jester, who reveals himself to be a product of Fatima's experiments with the occult. Another battle ensues and the knights succeed in killing the jester. They soon find a trio of knights whom they had killed earlier also revived into undead, defeating them in the process and ultimately kill Kirk Gradis, who had lost everything and became horrified by the uncontrollable powers Fatima had given him, but regretted ever betraying the House of Blood.

In the finale, the truth of Fatima's rise to power and the dark powers she gave to her subordinates is finally revealed: Fatima herself was once a human who made a pact with The Beast in a demonic realm called The Void (eventually learning to control the blood's power to the point where she retained her current human appearance and intellect) and that the demonic power The Beast gave them was not really magic as Lord Follis had said, but it was an infection created from the Beast's blood. Fatima also reveals that she created the Holy Tree from the Beast's blood in order to get rid of humanity's fear of death and creating her own ideal world where humans are immortal and will no longer bear the burden of life. When the knights oppose her goal of creating a world of undead demons, Fatima fuses herself with the tree and becomes a demon called Yggdrasil, only to be killed by the knights.

In her last breath, Fatima offers a crystallized stone made of demon blood to protect the knights from The Beast's influence, fearing that they will be hunted for what they have done in the name of vengeance. The trio soon realizes that The Beast had been using them as assassins right from the start while The Beast tells them that they are beyond redemption after all they have done. This leads them to destroy the crystal Fatima had given them in an act of defiance towards The Beast's wish of keeping them as slaves. Furious with their rebuke, The Beast warns the knights that they will die again and that they will go to hell after their deaths with the Beast saying he will 'keep a spot nice and warm for (them).' In the game's epilogue, the trio admits that they will serve the punishment for their sins in vengeance as 'undead knights'.

Release[edit]

On October 1, 2009, the Undead Knights demo was mistakenly replaced with the full game on the PlayStation Store, giving consumers an opportunity to download the full game for free.^[1]

Reception[edit]

The reception was very mixed: the reviewers expressed extreme opinions with regards to the most controversial elements of the game.^[2] Some of them scorned the inconsistencies with the decorum of the genre and condemned the mixture of the underground death/black metal soundtrack^[3] and explicitly vulgar language not necessarily suited to the dark fantasy/medieval entourage.^[4] The others in turn praised the game and its story for the potency to evoke cathartic experiences.^[5][6]

Trivia[edit]

The narrative layer of the game is abundant in references to the Jewish and Christian creation accounts present in the Bible, early Rabbinic literature and apocrypha and pseudepigrapha. The game utilizes such motifs as the fall of angels, the tree of knowledge of good and evil and the secret of immortality.^[7]

References[edit]

1. ^Polybren (October 1, 2009). 'Free Undead Knights 'demo' contained full game'. GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Retrieved January 27, 2012.
2. ^'Undead Knights'. Metacritic. Retrieved 2016-07-29.
3. ^'Undead Knights (PSP). Dark Zero'. 2010-03-14. Retrieved 2016-07-29.
4. ^'Undead Knights'. GameSpot. Retrieved 2016-07-29.
5. ^'Review: Undead Knights'. Destructoid. Retrieved 2016-07-29.
6. ^'Undead Knights review (Games Radar)'. Retrieved 2016-07-29.
7. ^Kosior, Wojciech (2015). 'Undead Knights, Fallen Giants and Poisoned Fruit of Life. A Digital Retelling of the Judeo-Christian Creation Motifs'. pp. 35–52. Retrieved 2016-07-29.

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