I can't comment whether it's like any other game as I've not played many like this.
You have different styles of magic you can mix together, pull combo's for different types of spells, it's all done through aiming your mouse and remembering specific sequences.
best thing to do is watch youtube video's, I found it a little bit daunting as I'm not good at remembering combo's anymore. I'ma ctually redownloading it now, but it's very well made so I can recommend it.