Soldato
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Just been playing the demo and have to say this game is awesome. The first thing to strike me was the atmosphere, and I don't think the acting is bad either, the dialog is solid.
The graphics are on par with Oblivion I think, but the actual gameplay is light years ahead of it. The combat for example is great, whether your using a mace a bow or a magic staff!
I have only touched the surface too. The creation of spells looks simple yet the spells you can create are awesome. The books I've picked up so far, haven't got tiny text written in an irritating font so it becomes a chore to read them, I've actually read every book I've found so far, which I can't remember doing in any other rpg, online or otherwise(esp not Dragon Age).
Character creation I also find a joy to use, it is perhaps not as in depth as some games, but you can still create different looking avatars, and I didn't mess about for 5 hours doing so.
The story seems interesting so far, with a twist already.
Things like building your own village and doing quests from it, as well as allowing other people online to walk around sounds a bit special too.
I started doing a tutorial quest and followed all the instructions, it was on a path on an island. I saw one of the bad guys looking out to the sea and got behind him and assassinated him. I was curious and looked at the view he was looking at too. It looked pretty special. I thought "hmm I wonder if I could swim across there in this tutorial?" I ran down to the beach. jumped into the sea started swimming towards an island in the distance, while pretty detailed and colourful fish followed, and I was actually getting closer to the island, I wasn't told to turn back or something, like you usually are.
I did turn back, got back to the beach, walked up to path, and my character was very slow moving, it was because his clothes were wet!
This sort of attention to detail I love. I didn't have high hopes for this title, but I'm ordering it after I've finished this post as it looks like it could be a sleeper hit of 2011, completely taken by surprise by this.
This game deserves to be massive, the combat alone is by far better then any rpg I've played, it make Oblivion seems like a spectrum game, and the Witcher like a Commodore 64!
A respected German mag give it 92%, while in the past it give Oblivion for example 91% (bare in mind Oblivion came out years ago), Gamespot I've noticed give it 75%, methinks bank handers to review sites happen, because I'm with the German's on this one so far
Anyone else tried the demo? Anyone on here buying it?
edit: I'm using a 360 pad with it
The graphics are on par with Oblivion I think, but the actual gameplay is light years ahead of it. The combat for example is great, whether your using a mace a bow or a magic staff!
I have only touched the surface too. The creation of spells looks simple yet the spells you can create are awesome. The books I've picked up so far, haven't got tiny text written in an irritating font so it becomes a chore to read them, I've actually read every book I've found so far, which I can't remember doing in any other rpg, online or otherwise(esp not Dragon Age).
Character creation I also find a joy to use, it is perhaps not as in depth as some games, but you can still create different looking avatars, and I didn't mess about for 5 hours doing so.
The story seems interesting so far, with a twist already.
Things like building your own village and doing quests from it, as well as allowing other people online to walk around sounds a bit special too.
I started doing a tutorial quest and followed all the instructions, it was on a path on an island. I saw one of the bad guys looking out to the sea and got behind him and assassinated him. I was curious and looked at the view he was looking at too. It looked pretty special. I thought "hmm I wonder if I could swim across there in this tutorial?" I ran down to the beach. jumped into the sea started swimming towards an island in the distance, while pretty detailed and colourful fish followed, and I was actually getting closer to the island, I wasn't told to turn back or something, like you usually are.
I did turn back, got back to the beach, walked up to path, and my character was very slow moving, it was because his clothes were wet!
This sort of attention to detail I love. I didn't have high hopes for this title, but I'm ordering it after I've finished this post as it looks like it could be a sleeper hit of 2011, completely taken by surprise by this.
This game deserves to be massive, the combat alone is by far better then any rpg I've played, it make Oblivion seems like a spectrum game, and the Witcher like a Commodore 64!
A respected German mag give it 92%, while in the past it give Oblivion for example 91% (bare in mind Oblivion came out years ago), Gamespot I've noticed give it 75%, methinks bank handers to review sites happen, because I'm with the German's on this one so far
Anyone else tried the demo? Anyone on here buying it?
edit: I'm using a 360 pad with it
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