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Number of posts : 2133 Age : 32 Job/hobbies : sending souls to hell Favorite word : Go to Hell Awards : Currenty playing : Dirge of Cerberus Registration date : 2007-12-15
| Subject: Dawn of Magic Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:37 am | |
| Metachronos overall score = 3.5 / 10 Positive - Great magical variety - Can play as evil Negative - Buggy to the point of being unplayable - Derivative plot, quests, and map structure - Limited and bizarre character choices - Can remind you of runescape All of the extra hocus-pocus in Dawn of Magic should have made it a cut above the typical Diablo clone. While the standard action role-playing game contents itself with nonstop hacking and slashing, this one from developer Sky Fallen Entertainment gives you all of that twitchy-fingered goodness along with a dozen magical schools that let you raise the dead, launch fireballs, and even suck the blood out of enemies. But all of this Harry Potter stuff is worthless in the end because horrific bugs make the game virtually unplayable and the lackluster game design will have you groaning or yawning before you've cut down a dozen monsters. Lastly, there are the bugs. Crashes to the desktop come so fast and furiously that the game can be all but unplayable. We tried all sorts of different video drivers and went so far as to pull out the installed audio card in the test system to go back to onboard sound to try stabilizing the game but had no luck with any approaches. Making the situation even worse, the save system only allows you to store your progress when exiting the game or at rare checkpoints. So you can't even try to compensate for the random crashes by hitting a quick-save button every couple of minutes. The only saving grace here is that not everybody seems to be having serious technical problems with the game. Judging by forum posts, it's hit and miss as to whether or not you'll encounter problems. But when you do, these issues seem to be severe enough to cause crashes or prevent you from loading the game at all. So, caveat emptor and all that. Dawn of Magic also features a multiplayer mode that we haven't gotten into, but really, haven't you endured enough suffering already? If you happen to see this game on a store shelf, just back away slowly. | |
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Tymon Admin
Number of posts : 2411 Age : 30 Job/hobbies : Organizer of where people go when they enter hell Favorite word : WTF! Awards : None Currenty playing : Urban terror Registration date : 2007-12-09
| Subject: Re: Dawn of Magic Sat Jan 26, 2008 4:26 am | |
| Can remind you of runescape
lol!!! | |
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