There's a new Game of Thrones video game coming down the pike: Game of Thrones: Kingsroad, developed by Netmarble. This open world game is set during the fourth season of the TV show. Players will take on the role of the heir to House Tyre, a small house in the North. You will play out an original story, meet characters from the series, choose from a variety of different classes and engage in combat.
The main game seems to mostly be about this single-player story. There's also a multiplayer mode called "Alter of Memories," where players can team up with other people to take on a multitude on monsters. Check out a new trailer focused on these deadly beasties below!
Some of these monsters we hear about or meet in Game of Thrones and some we don't. They include:
- Ice Spiders: Although we never actually saw any on the show, legend was that the White Walkers used to ride "ice spiders big as hounds." In Game of Thrones: Kingsroad, they're as big as a bus.
- Stormhorn Unicorn: In George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, we actually do hear about unicorns living on the island of Skagos, although we have yet to meet one.
- Ironbeak Griffin: So far as I know, there are no griffins — a creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle — in the Game of Thrones universe. But House Connington has a griffin for its sigil, so maybe there are a few running around somewhere.
- Red Cockatrice: Now we're really going nuts. A cockatrice is a creature with the body of a dragon or wyvern and the head of a rooster. A cockatrice appears on the sigil of House Gargalen from Dorne, but that's about the only evidence of them existing in the World of Ice and Fire.
- Field Boss Drogon: The final boss of this mode is Drogon, Daenerys Targaryen's fierce dragon.
I could quibble about whether some of these creatures really exist in the world of Game of Thrones, but it seems like this mode is just an excuse for players to wreck some havoc together and doesn't relate to the main single-player campaign, so I'll let it go. Still, they didn't think to include direwolves or something?
There's no release date set for Game of Thrones: Kingsroad as of yet, but the plan is to launch it on mobile devices and PC sometime this year.
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