Caltrops - Gamerasutra - Re: Arx Fatalis -- any good?

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by The first of the fags 02/10/2003, 8:50pm PST

Managed to last all the way until the middle of second chapter before i got seriously bored with the whole thing.
I mean, all things considered, the human femur was probably the most interestign weapon there is, everything from there on out was a sword or an axe and their magical variants, so SCORE!!!! on originality points for weapons.

Spells, it's cool how to cast it, it's sko BLack and White, mouse movements andit looks pretty while doing it, but in the heat of combat, you'l probably get hacked to death before you even manage to get the first rune out. So the fun been pretty much strangled out of that area. Yeah, sure, you can have up to 3 pre cast spell but that don' do much to alleviate the problem. Also, the range of spells pretty much covers fireball, magic missle, incinerate and a whole bunch of useless crap.

Enemy AI is non existent.

NPC interaction has no dialogue tree. YAY!! right? Basically, you don;t do much, you just watch a bunch of characters pantomine out a overly cliched fantasy plot. (dark cult plans to raise Evil God. You are saviour sent from above, blah blah blah, rebels, blah blah blah, traitors, blah blah yawn.)

The only good thing i can say for this game is that if you bother, it can be very immersing for a while. After which, real life kicks you in the balls and you realize you weren't really enjoying the game, it was all just a daydream.