Kingdom Come: Deliverance Review - 5 Ups & 5 Downs

4. Up: Attention To Detail Is Staggering

What writer/director David Vavra and on-hand history expert Joanna Nowak have created can occasionally pull off a stupendous amount of detail.

Yes, we've had Bethesda's various medium-expanding efforts and CD Projekt RED bringing Andrzej Sapkowski's novels to life, but both were fictional landscapes from moment one. The nearest comparison is Assassin's Creed, but that series' gameplay tends to speed past the overwhelming amount of period-accurate iconography, whereas Kingdom Come: Deliverance encourages indulgence.

From specific clothing weaves to sword hilts, fighting stances to the way people talk and interact with one another, the Kingdom of Bohemia has been recreated, patch by patch, village by village - literally to a geographically accurate degree - and it's something else to take in.