New Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an interesting twist on both the classic tale and classic resource management game (think Royal Envoy, Roads of Rome, and My Kingdom for the Princess). A bolt of lightning sends your character back to King Arthur's time, and you quickly go from a peaceful farmer to a knight with the mission of finding the fountain of youth.
In this game, you will command your workers to complete the usual challenges of finding resources, building necessary structures, and attaining stated goals. However, for once, your character has a job to do also. Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to chase off bad guys, rescue kidnapped workers, and perform spells to allow your workers to complete their tasks.
Alawar Entertainment, who has just released this game, describes New Yankee in King Arthur's Court as a tower defense game; but personally I find this game as much, much more and better. I'm not a huge fan of tower defense, and while it is eventually necessary to build towers to defend your settlement, this is just another twist to the game.
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In any case, New Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a fantastic game. When I started, I simply could not stop long enough to write the review; I had to play straight through. While it isn't a difficult game to play, you definitely need to use strategy to complete the levels within gold time.
Now, I love this type of game anyway, but the addition of making the main character do some unique work also really adds another layer of complexity. The threat of losing your workers to kidnapping also requires you to plan your work in a different way.
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I simply loved New Yankee in King Arthur's Court. There is absolutely nothing for me to complain about; even the fact that I couldn't instantly get gold on every level makes it a better game in my eyes. Of course, it could always be longer, but at 40 levels, you certainly aren’t being short-changed at all! It's just good enough that I get a bit greedy and want more!
