RPG Vault

Jolt.co.uk ???????�?�?�???????�?? ???�?�?�???�?�?? ???� Hard to be a God (?�?�?�???? ?�???�?? ?�????????). ?�?�?�?�???�?�?? ???� ???�?� ???�?�?????? ?�?�?� ?? ?�?�?�?????? ?????�???�???????�:
“In Hard to be a God, based on the book of the same name, two planets have taken divergent paths. One is essentially medieval in nature, while the other is much more recognisable as a modern Earth. As an agent from the second planet, you??�re sent to investigate the other, and understand what makes it the way it is.
The very prospect of placing a contemporary-style character in a fantasy setting is pretty intriguing to us, but much more so than its brethren, HtbaG is an action RPG with consequences.”

Gameplanet, ???????????�?????????�?????? Mass Effect ?�?� ???�?????� ?????�???�??, ???????�?�?????? ?? ???????�?? ???�?�?�???�?�?� ???�?�?????? 4.5/5.
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“STAR WARS, STAR TREK, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate, The Matrix??� If any of these names have any appeal to you then Mass Effect is the game for you. And if none of these appeal to you, keep reading anyway; because Mass Effect is still an experience no one should miss! To say this game is epic in design is an understatement. This very well may be the first real step we've seen towards an interactive movie. This feature production is brought to you by Bioware, a developer than seems unable make a bad game; especially when they are Role Playing Games (RPGs). Before we get into all the details and goodies of the game let us quickly get the negatives out of the way.”

???� Adrenaline Vault ?�`???????�?�???? ???�?�?�???�?�?? ???� Hellgate London. ???�?�?????� - 3\5.
” …Speaking of randomly generated, Hellgate, the pseudo successor to Diablo and its sequel carries on the lineage of randomly generated loot, monsters, and (as I already said) zones. This can be a double edged sword, though, as you might enter a location and be face to face with a legendary boss right off the bat, or worse yet be forced to backtrack endlessly to locate a dropped quest item you missed. Locales range from side tunnel networks, fire-blasted city thoroughfares, and store rooms with more boxes than you can shake a copy of Doom II at. As the story progresses you??�ll also become familiar with hellgates themselves which offer a glimpse into how the other half lives. Beware though, some of the minions you encounter in there may require a little more than the few hundred rounds you pumped into them to fall.”

???�???�?? ???�?�?�?�?? The Witcher ???�?�?�???�?�?�?? ???� ?????? ???� ???�?????�?�???????? ?�?�?�?????? ?�?�???�?�????. ?????? ?� Play.tm ???� ?�?�?�?�??????????. ???�?�?????� 80%.
?????�?????� ???�???�?? ???�?�??: “Pleasingly, the game can be played for the top-down, no doubt homage to traditional role-playing games like Buldar's Gate and Diablo“, ?? ?� ???� ???�?�?? ???????�?????�?? ?�???????? ???�??????????.
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“You might think, once you've taken into account that opening volley, that I'm not the best person to review The Witcher. I'm probably not. I wouldn't go near this game if I had to buy it. But every now and then reviewing games for the good of gaming does offer a few unexpected pearls in return (besides the free game and kudos, but forget that, we do this for the love of the culture - sort of). While certainly without being forced to play The Witcher I would never have bothered; what an experience I'd have missed out on. Indeed this review should have been in ages ago, but I couldn't bring myself to put a finger to key - there was so much to do and experience, I didn't want to utter a word with so much left to uncover and so I didn't, I waited, experienced and played.”

???� Worthplaying ?�`???????�?????? ???�?�?�???�?�?? ???� NWN2: Mask of the Betrayer. ???�?�?????� 8.1/10.
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“It wasn't far from the end of the first chapter that I became completely overwhelmed: Enemies had gained the ability to slay my level 19 Barbarian/Weapons Master in one hit, and dumping every spell Safiya had in her inventory didn't seem to be helping matters any. Even with other characters doing support duty during the epic fight at the end of Act I, things often came to a bloody and brutal end. I ascribe a lot of this to my inexperience with high-level characters and monsters. Based on this, I really have to suggest that players interested in Mask finish NWN2 first, simply so they have a smooth grasp on the intricacies of the game…

…The manual takes great pains to point out the interface changes, optimizations and overall improvements to the engine, but to be very honest, I didn't see much of it, aside from a few new color and lighting effects. Mask still has one of the most severe problems I noted with the original package: In many ways, the graphics are just a notch above average, but even with a relatively powerful machine (more substantial than when I reviewed NWN2 last year), frame rates are rather low, the characters look strictly okay, and there is a lot of stuttering and slowdown when things get hectic. Again, I have to question an engine that has this many issues running adequately on a dual-core system with a strong video card…

The module itself, as with the original campaign, helps to move focus past the technical foibles and back to the game itself. Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer is every bit as tightly written as the original, though it moves much faster and is a fair sight shorter. I do, however, like the characters, and it's pretty awesome that your lead character can, in theory, be something completely horrific that you can embrace, if you feel the need. I've always been fond of wide-open forks in the plot, where a decision really does seem to have some impact on how the story unfolds. Mask of the Betrayer, as an extension of the original Neverwinter Nights 2 campaign, is a strong RPG and something any D&D fan should check out. “

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Strategy Informer ???????�?�?????? ???????? ???�?�?????? XBox 360-???�?????�?� ???????????? ?�?�?�?� ???�?? Bioware - Mass Effect. ?�?� ?�???????????? ?�???�?????�?�?�?? ???�?�?????� 9/10:
“In the end Mass Effect does carry some imperfections like bugs, glitches, texturing popping, some sound volume quirks and often laborious exploration in the MAKO but even after all that BioWare still has one mega-fantastic (yes, it??�s a word) game here. The depth of the story, the quality of the cinematic styled dialogue and events, the brilliant scores of music that litter throughout ??� all build up an unforgettable immersion and by the end I was near grief-stricken that this tale had come to an end… Mass Effect is a landmark game for its charismatic storytelling power, BioWare show they are still easily at the frontlines when it comes to forging new, exciting and epic-level adventures.”

The Witcher ???�???�?????�?????? ?�???????? ?????� ???? ???�?�???�?�?�. ?�?�?�?�???�?�?????? ???� ?????????? ???�?� ???�?????�?�???�??????:

RPG Codex ???? ?�?????�?�?????? ???� ???????�?�?????�?� ???�?�??????, ?�?�?� ?�?�???�?�?????� ?�?????�?�?????�???�?? ???�?�?�???�?�?� ?????�???�???????�:
“You know by now that you can't choose your character's class, race, or even gender: you are Geralt of Rivia. Frankly, I don't have a lot of sympathy for people who can't get past that; if you think a game can't be a great RPG without letting you choose such details, then I implore you to try such masterpieces as Planescape: Torment and Ultima VII. What might be more of a problem, though, is that there's a level at which you can't choose your character's personality, and that might legitimately bother people. Often your character will speak to people without your guidance, and many of the more inconsequential dialogue choices from a Bioware (or even a Troika) RPG have been stripped out. Dialogues very rarely have two functionally equivalent ways of saying the same thing, so you're limited to dialogue responses that fit Geralt's hard-boiled, somewhat sarcastic, occasionally suave badass persona. You will, from time to time, insult people without having any choice in the matter, for example. Basically, you're taking on the role of an established character and are constrained to work within that role. You can make real, meaningful choices in the game, and you can decide Geralt's deepest values, allegiances, and even lovers; but you can't deviate too far from the character as established in the books, and you can't make him talk like either a Nancy-boy diplomat or a dumb brute.”

GameShark ???�?�???�?�?� The Witcher ?�???????�?�?????? “?????�?�???? CRPG ?� ?�?�???�?? Baldur's Gate II” ?� ???????�?�?????�?� “A-”:
“This is hardly the first game that asks you to make choices. Bioware and others have been doing that for eons. But even games that did very well at it, most choices you make are obvious in terms of their good or evilness. The Witcher gives you far more to think about when answering most questions. Will you risk condemning an innocent man in a plot against you if you??�re not completely positive of his guilt? Will you bargain with a cannibal because he has information that??�s of use to you? One quest, early in the game, forces you to decide the fate of a witch. Both choices have consequences and it??�s not entirely clear, even after the choice is made, which was about the greater good. One certainly feels like the right thing to do, but the body count that ensues??� well, even that choice doesn??�t feel good when all the ramifications of it are made clear. Not since Fallout has a game so skillfully made the choices a player makes both vague and important.”

DLA ?�???? ?�?�?�???? ???�???????�??????, ?�?�?� ?????�?� ?�?�???? ???????�?�?????? 4.5/5:
“Well I have finished the game now. There are some issues which surface as the game moves on I would like to draw attention to.

This is compounded by a sub quest design in Act II that is so large that the main plotline is lost for a lot of players for a looooong time. Not a big deal - but worth mentioning.”

???�???� 2404.org ???????�?�?????? 9/10 ?? ???????�?? ???�?�?�???�?�?� ???� The Witcher:
“Like many RPGs, you have the main quests and several side quests that are available. You are, however, confined to certain regions; you cannot roam around to different areas whenever you wish. The regions are fairly large, but if you??�re really set on a free-roaming RPG, then you might suffer from some slight feelings of claustrophobia with this game. The areas you are confined to are fairly large, so I never really had a cramped feeling. For the most part, areas are fairly open but there are some areas where there are obstructions. Being able to walk off the sides of stairways, docks, etc. would have been better, in my opinion, and there were some areas in the swamp where you can only walk along a set path.

When the game advertises nonlinear gameplay, I don??�t think it??�s necessarily focusing on the order of the main quest, because that does follow a fairly straight order. There are, of course, side quests, but it seems to me that the nonlinearity term is focusing on Geralt??�s decisions along the journey. You have to make small decisions all the time, such as whether to help someone or not, to be friendly or not, to do a quest or not, etc., and these decisions seem to take on a ripple effect in that they change many things. “

?????�???�?�???????? ?�?�???�?�????, IncGamers ?????�???????�?????????�?�?� Hellgate London ?�?� ?????�?� ???�?�?????? ???�?�?????�???�?? ?�?�???�??. ???�?�?????� 7.5/10.
“…You play Hellgate as a character who uses weapons and/or spell casting to fight off countless waves of bad guys. Each monster you kill has a random chance at dropping something. The something dropped could be currency, weapons, armor or various other potentially useful items. You can then pick up the items and use or sell them. That, in a nut shell, is what you will spend most of your time actively doing in Hellgate. Sound boring? Just see if you can stop. I mean, at 2 am , when your eyes are drying from staring at the computer screen you swore 3 hours ago you would only spend 5 more minutes staring at, just try to go to sleep. If you are like me (and I do not say this with pride) you will dream of the game when you finally do stop…

…I must painfully point out that, while Diablo (I and II) is my favorite game series of all time, it was not met with universal acclaim when it hit store shelves (in some cases receiving 7 or 8 out of 10). Hellgate seems to be receiving similarly (although a bit lower) rating thus far. I understand that it is frustrating to have games released that are not perfect (but what game ever really is?). If stability is the main factor in rating a game, I would agree that Hellgate deserves some low marks. However, if the true mark of a game is the ability to entertain and keep you drawn in, Hellgate is a semi-flawed gem that, once polished and patched, will be played by some for a very long time.”