Posts Tagged ‘rpg’
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Shadowflare is one of the famous role playing games. It is a hack-and-slash action RPG. This game is some what similar to Blizzard’s original Diablo from 1996. Gamers can play this game either as female or male character and they have to hack their way through hordes of monsters to complete simple quests like defeating a certain monster or retrieving a specific item.
The combat in the game consists of simply left-clicking repeatedly on the enemies as we had seen in the original Diablo. But, here the game does not allow gamers to click and hold their mouse button on a specific enemy as there was in Diablo II. It even does not have anything like auto-attack feature from Gas Powered Games’ Dungeon Siege. Hence, in the game one should be prepared to do plenty of clicking.
Similar to Diablo, it has a paper-doll equipment system and an inventory of limited size.
Tags: diablo, diablor ii, role playing games, rpg, rpg games, shadowflare
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Monday, May 25th, 2009
If we remember, BioWare, Canadian studio, was first recognized with PC role-playing games, which let gamers create parties of stout warriors and wizards to combat with many types of evil goblins and dragons. Since then, the developer has expanded its horizons beyond the PC.
BioWare made the martial-arts-themed Jade Empire for the Xbox console, their second venture in role playing games. It was an entirely different direction than the studio’s traditional games that had heated battles and were generally decided by role-playing hack-and-slash systems.
Jade Empire was an action role playing game, which let gamers roam the countryside as a fledgling martial artist and by using several combination attacks and of course several fighting styles to pummel bandits, warlords, and also otherworldly demons.
This game of BioWare is now headed for the PC as Jade Empire: Special Edition.
Tags: bio ware, bioware, empire, jade, jade empire, jade empire special edition, pc role playing games, rpg, stout warriors, xbox console
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
XYZ is the developer of 3rd World. The characters in this role playing game are a little more dynamic in the sense that a ship or a space station becomes an extension of the gamers character. The character advancement in the game is based around skills. Different races have different modifiers for specific skills, but there are no specific classes for characters.
There are different methods for the advancement of certain skills. Sometimes gamers has no idea what action increased the character’s skill. They just did something, and the screen blinks, and gamers receive skill points.
Space stations are the main centers for player-to-player direct interactions. Inside it gamers will be able to chat with other players, make business arrangements, rent a room, and also relax in a local bar. They can trade with the station or with other players.
Tags: 3rd world, review, role playing games, rpg, third world
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Friday, May 1st, 2009
Sacred is a good looking and a good action role-playing game, which offers couple of interesting gameplay innovations. It provides an open-ended gaming world for exploring decent cooperative and also a good competitive multiplayer option. It also offers a good mix of goal-oriented questing and fast-paced battles. The fight system of the game is finicky and unrewarding that is a significant problem for what’s fundamentally a hack-and-slash role playing games.
It may be very artificial to describe this game without at least a cursory comparison to the Diablo games because it was clearly heavily inspired by that series. In Diablo games, each of the 6 character types in Sacred has a predetermined gender and also they have a distinct selection of skills that gamers can choose to develop.
Most of the enemies only take a few mouse clicks to dispatch, but gamers will be able to encounter hundreds of foes, including types that will spawn more of their kin if gamers do not take them out.
The monsters of the game are all classic fantasy stereotypes like undead, dragons, and ogres. Gamers can use the Alt key to highlight and even immediately locate the seemingly endless bounties of loot they hoard.
Tags: diablo, gameplay, multiplayer, rpg, rpg games, sacred, sacred review
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
It is a fact that all role-playing games and adventures are about story, and this game titled Quest for Glory especially is about plot, characters, and of course of humor. Quest for Glory V has all that.
Humor and style of previous Quest for Glory games is fully intact in this final version. This game has always had a juvenile sense of humor accompanied with corny jokes and heavy sexual innuendo.
Hence, gamers can now flirt with all the women in the game, and they can even give and receive a number of groaners. This feature is really something that all the fans of this game have come to expect from the series.
In the game the basic plot requires gamers to answer a summons for help from the kingdom of Silmaria, which is nestled in the island area of Marete. Many many years before Atlantis resided around these waters, but the Dragon of Doom crippled this place by sending it to the ocean floor.
Silmaria is suffering with several events in series which will destroy the kingdom and at the same time will also unleash the dragon to finish the obliteration of Atlantis.
Tags: atlantis, Dragon Fire, dragon of doom, gamers, island, kingdom, marete, ocean floor, Quest for Glory, Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire, rpg, silmaria
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Saturday, April 4th, 2009
Just like Daggerfall and of course of its predecessor, Arena, Battlespire is set in the Elder Scrolls world of Tamriel. It has been set during the same time period as the events in Arena, the plot of Battlespire fits perfectly into Elder Scrolls lore.
In the beginning of the game your character enters the Battlespire, a testing facility for the Emperor’s personal Battlemage guards. It is only to discover that it has been overrun by malevolent forces.
A traitor, that is working with the archvillain from Arena named Jagar Tharn, has allowed the legions of the Daedra Lord, Mehrunes Dagon, to get into the Battlespire and slaughter the resident Battlemages.
All daggerfall-nostalgic gamers keep hope for another opportunity to explore the vast wilderness of Tamriel by smooth interacting with guilds and participating in a variety of role-playing lifestyles. They have to wait for Morrowind, the next Elder Scrolls version tentatively scheduled to be released.
This game has a much more limited scope, specially being a big dungeon crawl along the lines of the Ultima
Tags: battlespire, role playing games, rpg, rpg games
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Role playing game Atriarch is an extremely unusual game. It is of World Fusion’s. it is a massively multiplayer RPG, but it has a number of unorthodox features as well such as it happens on a completely alien planet that is populated by strange alien creatures. You get no humans there or elves or dwarves in the world of Atriarch. Gamers has to create their character from one of five alien races. Each of the races has its own unique look, its own strengths and weaknesses, and also at the same time its own culture.
The role playing game Atriarch takes place on the alien world of Atriana. Atriana is an enormous planet that is circled by 3 moons, which regularly change the planet’s climate, depending on their location within their respective orbits. In the game a Torpor Storm sweeps the land on each full cycle of the planet. The storm also induces a regenerative hibernation in all creatures. Yes, to both the creatures, one that is controlled by players and the other those that aren’t.
Atriana itself teems with life. Atriana is inhabited not only by player races but it is also inhabited by many other species of non-player creatures, which are collectively referred to as “natives.”
Gamers will be able to create a player character from the 5 distinctive races. They are Cavolon, the Eshlar, the Tyrusin, the Lokai, and the Unarra and none of the races on this alien planet is human; however, four of them are roughly humanoid. The one race that isn’t is the Cavolon, a tall, gangly race of creatures that slither about on tentacles and can also transport themselves by means of a “tentacle tongue” – an exceptionally long appendage they can use both to swing from branches and to attack their enemies. They can also use four of their appendages to wield weapons in combat, though the Cavolon tend to keep to themselves in their swampy habitats, preferring careful study of Atriana’s plant life over combat and interaction with the planet’s other races.
Tags: atriana, atriarch, dwarves, eshiar, lokai, multiplayer rpg, role playing games, rpg, rpg games, tyrusin, unarra, vavolon
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Saturday, March 28th, 2009
This game in 2008 was a highly anticipated game because of its then-unique sci-fi setting. Though it has impressive graphics, but unfortunately, the game was launched with many technical problems that drove many gamers away from the game. After that the game has now become much more technically stable, but still sometimes the problems persists with lag, especially when there are lots of players and objects in the one single area.
This game is especially true of Notum Wars’ new tower battles that are an important part of the booster pack’s new land control feature. In this game, players who belong to a player organization can claim to deposits of the energy-rich resource notum in the way by building notum controllers to mine the stuff from beneath and then to erect powerful and expensive defense towers on the perimeter.
Again a poor luck for the game. The control is rather problematic. The world of Anarchy Online is not a very populated game and it is not uncommon to run about for hours without seeing other players.
The land control was intended to be an exciting new feature. This feature let the teams of players to engage in large-scale battles to seize or defend notum controllers.
Tags: anarchy online, anarchy online: the notum wars, notum wars, online games, rpg, rpg games, rpg online games, the notum wars
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
Mutable Realms is showing off Wish. Wish is a massively multiplayer game. It is so large that it has spawned a new class of online role-playing games. It is in fact the ultra massively multiplayer game.
In fact most of the online RPGs actually consist of a number of different servers and each of them hosting a few thousand players at a time. Wish has promised of one gigantic virtual world that can support more than 50,000 players on it at once.
Yes, the question arises why the huge number? Mutable Realms in fact wants to get away from the focus on level grinding that is found in most of the online RPGs to focus on the social aspects of the game. Wish here allows for tens of thousands of players to potentially interact with each other and at the same time also the game’s designers want to create a dynamic and evolving world.
Tags: multiplayer game, mutable realms, role playing game, role playing games, rpg, rpgs, Wish, wish game, wish rpg
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
When this role playing game, Titan Quest, was released in the beginning of this year, it allowed all the gamers to plunge into the mythological past. Gamers in this role playing game creates a warrior of the ancient world and traveled all over the Mediterranean and the Far East to battle all sorts of mystical enemies.
The action of this game is very similar to that of Diablo. Gamers are required in Titan Quest to hack-and-slash across a detailed and beautiful virtual world by using magic and also by using weapons to slay the enemies.
The developer of Titan Quest is Iron Lore Entertainment. They are busy working on Titan Quest: Immortal Throne, which is an expansion that will continue the adventures in the past by introducing a series of new locales and features. Immortal Throne will be launching early next year.
Tags: diablo, immortal throne, role playing games, rpg, rpgs, titan quest, Titan Quest: Immortal Throne, warrior of ancient world
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