AvClub: Knights Contract Review

AvClub: Game Republic’s Knights Contract fails on every level a game can fail. Its brawler play is broken; its grim fantasy version of 15th-century Germany is a jumble of drab, confusing corridors. Its characters are ugly, empty vessels for exposition; its story lumbers and lurches with little logic to hold together its continuity. The list goes on and on. If not for the fact that it’s possible to play the game start to finish, it would join the ranks of videogames’ most reviled titles. Knights Contract is just shy of being 2011’s Superman 64.