Just in time to fill your holiday vacation with enough adventure to keep those visiting relatives at bay, free-to-play giant Acclaim has recently introduced their newest offering: Knight’s Blood.

A new free-to-play browser based MMORPG where player’s battle for honor and coinage, Knight’s Blood is yet another offering in Acclaim commitment to browser based fun for all.  Players swear their oath of knighthood and alla ‘choose your own adventure’ style, these new knights develop their own storylines based upon the choices they make in game.

Character creation starts with an overview page, complete with important information and more interesting – your own personal link.  According to Acclaim, you can convert knaves to knights online by ‘placing the link appropriately’.  The way I’m reading this is ‘recruit your friends and others to Knight’s Blood via viral messaging and/or other media, and win some in game currency’.  Maybe I’m wrong.  Players may also challenge other knights to duels, but no word of an official PvP system.  As with all Acclaim games, Acclaim coins (their native form of in game currency) can be purchased (microtransaction) via the Acclaim site.  This currency may then be spent on in game character upgrades.  Upgrades include hundreds of weapons, suits of armor, shields, amulets and rings, all designed to improve fighting abilities.  Players also have the option to customize their avatar and even create their own coat of arms.

Again along the lines of a ‘choose your own adventure’ theme, Knight’s Blood will allow players to choose the good or evil aspects of missions that they choose to accept; either via the Knight of Light path, or the Horde of Darkness.

While at the time of writing this, www.knightsblood.com appears to be down.  Either a ‘d’oh!’ on Acclaims end, or perhaps an overwhelming response?  From the concept and premise of the game, I’m not sure it’s going to pull me away from the three other MMO’s I’m playing right now, but I certainly could see it as a nice ‘lunch break’ at the office kind of game.  At least until Quake Live arrives.