Initially, I found the idea of being limited to three skills to be interesting, but the game doesn’t fully commit to its own concept as you can actually jump between “action sets” at the press of a button, and thus, in reality, all skills are available to you. By default, this menu slows down time, but it can be tweaked to pause the game entirely if you feel like catching your breath, especially in the hectic RTS sections which we’ll come back to later. Combat here is largely in real-time with your group of up to four heroes having a maximum of three special skills mapped to their little sections of the screen at any given time, but you can also access these by holding a key while hovering over an enemy or friendly to bring up a contextual radial menu that will display defensive abilities or offensive ones based on what the cursor is above. The point is, aside from the clunky animations this is mostly a very pretty game bolstered by some great orchestral music which has a Skyrim vibe to it.īeing an action-RPG getting into scuffles is a common occurrence. To be fair, though, that’s because the space is needed for the real-time strategy shenanigans that you’ll be getting up to. There’s a lot of detail in this world, combined with some great lighting, that makes it a pleasure to look at and explore, although while the areas are reasonably large they are also mostly empty with only a few NPCs to chat to. It was enough to keep me engrossed for the 20-30 hours of playtime you can get out of the campaign.Īt first glance Spellforce 3 looks a bit like its using the Infinity engine that powered Divinity: Original Sin 2, it’s isometric view letting you get a birds-eye look at the beautiful landscapes. And while it may not win awards for originality I found myself caught up in the lore and storyline. However, the whole thing is supported by likable companion characters and surprisingly strong voice-acting across the main cast, though the side-characters struggle a bit more. In other words, the story isn’t all that exciting in its originality and some of the writing is weirdly inconsistent, with some characters awkwardly “swearing” using words like blazes and heck, and then later merrily throwing f-bombs around later. It’s like developers have a checklist or something these days.
I mean, that’s a lot of fantasy cliches in one place. Having been tossed out of the legendary Wolf Guard you find yourself caught up in a story that involves Elves, Orcs, Humans, religion, a mysterious plague, the coming of a God and an ancient race. The story is largely familiar fantasy tropes with your character being the chosen one who will save the world from a mysterious threat, although this time you do get to play as the son of a treacherous mage in a story that acts as a prequel to the previous two Spellforce games. It’s like a Frankenstein’s monster, all stitched together, a little rough around the edges, prone to getting in trouble with local villagers and yet has a heart of gold. However, sometimes it’s appropriate because Spellforce 3 is Baldur’s Gate meets Age of Mythology and in its mixture of RPG leveling and RTS base-building you can find mechanics taken from numerous games from across the years.
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This is a huge world worked out to the smallest detail, with heaps of settlements, cities, strange and unusual places, characters, each of which has its own unique story, and more.Review code supplied free of charge by the publisher.ĭescribing a game as a mash-up of other titles is often regarded as lazy writing, and I should know because I do it all the time. Now it is over, but in its place came chaos and devastation, refugees from all over the world, and even a terrible disease.Īs you progress through the game, you will find yourself in the vastness of the world of Eo.
The war, in which mages around the world were destroyed by the armies of the Crown, brought many troubles. SpellForce 3 Reforced - a mixture of real-time strategy and adventure fantasy RPG in which you will have to dive into the adventure and travel through the world of Eo, which has gone through difficult times. Video card: NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB, AMD Radeon 7850 2GB Processor: Intel Core i5 3570, AMD FX-6350
Interface language: Russian, English, Multi8
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