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

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by Ice Cream Jonsey 02/10/2003, 9:40pm PST

The first of the fags wrote:

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.

Yeah, when I saw that gestures were included over on some preview sitting around on the web, I didn't seem to be quite as thrilled as the previewer. I'm going to guess that your character's vision is dependent upon the mouse, as in every other first person game ever made. So either you're flailing the camera about during a gesture in a game like this or you need to hold down a key to stop from doing so, in which case you haven't really gained anything.

Also, the range of spells pretty much covers fireball, magic missle, incinerate and a whole bunch of useless crap.

FUCK.

Enemy AI is non existent.

FUCK. With there being little of it in Morrowind (well, except for the cliff racers, which I am convinced were plugged into Skynet) I was hoping for an advance.

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.)

Well, that'll do it for me. I hear what you're saying in terms of how you summed it up, though. It looks like it'll be a fun one for a couple nights after it hits the bargain bin but not a whole lot more than that.