King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human

The story: In this game you played not as Sir/King Graham (the protagonist of the first 2 in the series) but as Gwydion, the slave of the evil wizard Mannanan. To cut a long story short, Gwydion is in fact none other than Prince Alexander, son of King Graham and Queen Valanice (the later rescued by Graham in King's Quest 2 which I haven't played), who must somehow return to Daventry and free the royal family from the clutches of a dragon. To this end you had to master powerful magic that allowed you to do all sorts of magical things such as transform into animals, cause storms, understand creatures and become invisible.

King's Quest 3 was better than the previous 2 games for a number of reasons. For starters it was a much bigger game. The graphics improved a notch and supposedly it was one of the first games to have a cutscene (of sorts). The story was also more involving than the get-the-treasure (King's Quest 1) or get-the-damsel (King's Quest 2) storylines. You began as a young man, not knowing who you were and through the course of the game discovered your identity.

The game retained the standard text command system of the series (it wasn't until King's Quest 5 that this was dropped in favour of the mouse) and the type of graphics used (though this was improved a bit over the previous 2 games as mentioned earlier). The game was also much harder than previously seen in the series, with a time limit being used in the earlier part of the game as Gwydion tried to run around the countryside collecting items to aid him in the use of magic whilst Mannanan was away (items that could be used in spells were marked with an '*' in your inventory and you could potentially lose the game if Mannanan caught you with anything remotely magical). Of course like all the King's Quest games of this time there was a heavy reliance on puzzles inspired by classic fairy tales (check out The 3 Bears from Goldilocks). You were also able to cast spells whenever you felt like it (once you had the right ingredients), sometimes with amusing results - try casting a storm whilst on the pirate ship!

In the end it was a highly entertaining game, and probably ranks as my second-favourite King's Quest game (after King's Quest 5). Worth a good look.

The third installment in the King's Quest series of computer games is undoubtably the best. Although the graphics is crude in comparison to today's mind-blowing 3D adventures, and the game is mercylessly difficult at some points, the writing and interesting characters is more than enough to keep you coming back for more.

The story is simple: You play Graham, The crown prince of Daventry. Unfortunately he was kidnapped by the evil wizard Manhanan when he was an infant. Since then he was forced to work against his will for the evil wizard, cooking, cleaning or whatever. Now, a long time later, you decide to escape, and claim your kingdom. There's just one little problem. It's not that easy.

Now you have to travel across the land searching for items to use in your quest for freedom. Your travels lead to an unneccesary copyright protection issue, a few spells that you have to brew up. The only bad thing about it is that not even a full stop may be out of place, or else you turn into a cat or something.

But not even this can contradict the fact that this is without a doubt the best "King's Quest" ever made. Check it out! Just make sure you've got a copy of a walkthrough for it.

"King's Quest III" is better than both "King's Quest I" and "King's Quest II", although I did like the previous ones. You play a slave called Gwydion who has been captured by an evil wizard.You must escape his home which is perched high up in the mountains,and explore the land.Once escaped from the wizard's home,you come across the three bears,evil Medusa,a spider and lots more. A good adventure game with tons of fun. The graphics are very poor,but nevertheless it remains a good game. A good game! That's all that needs to be said.