But like the best games of the genre Champions of Norrath is addicting in the very best of ways.
Snowblind has not gone and re-invented the wheel. Obviously, it's a hack-'n-slash collect-a-thon. Video Review: Read first, then watch this!Ĭompared to several games in this style of game, there are several little things that make this refreshing.The most drastic change is the ability for four people to play in an online game. Every time I started to get tired of fighting one creature or in an area, the game moved on in a different direction. The developers went ballistic with the number of items to discover (with more than 10,000 of them randomly generating), 45 levels to explore and 50 areas.
What makes all the difference is the increased level of detail in, well, everything. The basic gameplay has not changed very much here from Dark Alliance and sticks in the same vein of killing all the monsters and looting their corpses for better items. Without a doubt, this is a big fetch-quest. While there are a couple of interesting moments in the game, that I don't want to ruin by writing here, for the most part this is a haphazard tale that provides an excuse to fight through several different areas and kill plenty of different beasts and that's where Champions of Norrath excels. A demon is causing tons of havoc in Norrath and to stop him it will require fighting goblins, orcs, vampires, giant ants and the demon himself. Gameplay The story is simple and barely needs going over. Beyond just being a solid title in its own right, it's also moved to the online world with some mixed results. With new developments to keep pushing the genre along, it's clear that we have a new champion. The best of the bunch is not the sequel, Dark Alliance II, or the futuristic Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, but the next game by Snowblind, Champions of Norrath: Realms of Everquest.
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