There's a co-op mode that allows a human to take control of your sidekick, which is a much more fun way to play, especially as some moves can only really be pulled off when two people are pulling together to achieve it.Īlthough it's potentially entering spoiler territory to say this, you obtain another partner, a female one, later on and her combat style is definitely different to the two lantern-jawed brutes you control initially.

After doing the hero stuff with your brother, Angry Stubble Templar Man, you set off on a quest to find a woman you might know more about the Grail, so beginning a mythical quest across the continent and into the war zone that is the Holy Land.Įach of the two brothers has a reasonably distinctive combat style and can be swapped between when playing on your own. Popping over to Cyprus to have a chat with the Grandmaster, you discover some bandits are terrorising the place. As Fashionable Beard Templar Man, you're desperate to uncover the secrets of the lost Holy Grail and after years of research, you've finally got a lead. Silly rewards aside, First Templar (FT) sees you, a warrior of the Lord, battling your way across Europe with a variety of companions along for the ride. 'You just HAD to stop for that hair-cut, didn't you.' How else can you find 500 XP in an otherwise empty chest? It doesn't show you what it actually looks like, but a tangible entity it must be. If you learn one thing from playing The First Templar, the new action-adventure medieval romp from Haemimont Games, it's that you can find experience points hiding in chests that just happen to be lying around the place.

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