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William I's fortress has presided over the Thames for ten centuries

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So I don't really go out much cos depression's a bitch, but one time me and an IRL friend went to Goodwill and we found this:

I've never heard of this game or the series it's apparantly from. So it's the sequel to an agressively mid late-90s adventure game called Traitors Gate. From what I can tell, Traitors Gate 2 is a lot worse than its predecessor, but I can't find much else. The PC Gaming Wiki doesn't have anything for either game, and 2's Wikipedia article is about 4 paragraphs long, and has an empty plot section.

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Tuesday, August 24: Traitors Gate, “Shoot to Kill”

Like many NWOBHM acts, Traitors Gate managed to release one single before disappearing for the better part of 30 years. And much like their New Wave of British Heavy Metal counterparts, Devil Takes the High Road was an amateurish but energetic and entertaining 3-track record that charged the gates and didn’t let up. “Shoot to Kill” closed the affair as it began, with a marauding riff and frenetic drums that completely overwhelmed the somewhat lax vocals. Like most early ‘80s British metal, this didn’t really have any reason to exist other than to rock out, and that is exactly what it did.

These days we pay twenty five quid and walk through the Byward Tower, but 500 years ago they got a boat ride up the Thames and got in for free. How great would it be to float up to Traitors Gate and walk up those stone steps. Of course, I don’t fancy the bit that came after (locked up with your head chopped off) but what an entrance!

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