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Very good, with a few complaints

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I must say this game is very good, and makes me want to play again each time I finish. Also, very few crashes or bugs.
I agree with what was said by Mark Butler in his last paragraph. The story line was intriguing, but not well developed. There were times when I was given a new objective and would've had no idea that's my next step without being told. For example, after chasing a ghoul across rooftops, suddenly the ghoul vanished. I was informed my next objective was infiltrating a warehouse. Come to find out, the ghoul had taken the crystal into the warehouse and it was being used in the tunnels below it. I deduced that when I got down there and saw what they were doing. They spend the game spoon feeding objectives and clues, but don't give the player enough opportunity to feel part of a story by tying things together. Especially the ending! I defeated the villain and got the skull of shadows back, then wondered what to do with it. It turned out that the good ending was achieved by putting it right back down where it was before I picked it up! What compelling drama...not...and I found that out by trial and error and guessing.
I very much hope they do a sequel because it's very immersive and fun action. And I hope they improve the narrative exposition. If they do that, I'll say it's almost a perfect game.

lacked in longetivity

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

For an action rpg, this game is extremely linear and short, it is a blast while you are playing it but ends like the 2nd day! I would recommend elder scrolls oblivion over this game, although very very fun, it seems like it leaves you wanting so much more, there is a huge empty feeling this game leaves you with, thats the only way I can explain it.

Be Yourself!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: November 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

In short words be the assassin, be the warrior, be the magician and yet be the three of them, chose your path and change your fate, all in a fantastic and epic environment. suspense, action, full package quest.

slow loading time

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: May 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

even with my intel core 2 duo @2.00Ghz processor, the loading time for this game is definitely the longest among all of my games.
--the story is average.
--graphic is realistic.

This is not Might and Magic

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: June 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is what happens when a company (Ubisoft) buys the rights to call whatever they produce by the same name as a successful franchise (3DO's Might and Magic series) in order to fool people into buying their software.

If you were expecting a continuation of the great Might and Magic series, don't waste your money, this isn't it. I haven't gotten far enough to tell you what you will get, but so far it seems like little more than a narrated movie with you being pulled along by your nose. Hopefully it will improve...

So far I am very disappointed.

Why does the game always freeze up?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 17
Date: November 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i have a very high end computer and this game just refused to play smooth. Dont you love it when youre on your horse and it freezes up every 5 seconds? Never had this problem with Oblivion. Save your money people unless you have a super fast million dollar computer!

Superb, one of a kind!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Good by Elder Scrolls, Might n' Magic is back! Once I installed and started playing this game, I couldn't stop. Its one of those games that you just can't wait to get off work or school to go home and play some more. It has the most advanced and best midevil action combat I have ever seen in a game to date. The realism and brutality of this first person action game was defenitely top notch. The graphics, sound, story, and overall gameplay was one of the funest games I have ever played!

Dark Messiah - RPG/FPS combined.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: October 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Dark Messiah attemtps to merge semi RPG with FPS-style gameplay and successfully creates an new type of game.

You may think that games like Oblivion and Battlefield 2 (and games of it's ilk) have nothing in common, and until now that may have been true. Let me introduce you to Dark Messiah - part of the Might and Magic series.

The game is in First Person perspective, it's not really a first person shooter, more of a first person melee or combat game. It's set in a fantasy world, where their advertising blurb tells you don't play as a warrior, or a wizard or an assassin - play as them all! As you follow the exploits of Sareth in the single player storyline you will learn new skills and get new items/weapons which will enable you to become proficient in a specific area or jack-of-all-trades. It's a skill 'tree' if you like, where if you choose one particular branch, you may be weaker on another.

The storyline itself gives you the role playing aspect, and what holds this up apart from other similar games is that it uses Valve's Source engine. For those of you who have played Halflife 2 will know how good that is - infact it's even better because it's an 'enhanced' version to boot. What this means is that the whole 'world' you play in will be very interactive, pick up barrels and throw them at enemies, move boxes around to get at hidden items and so on.

The online multiplayer aspect for up to 32 players is where it becomes more like an FPS game similar to BF2. There are 5 classes to choose from: Warrior which is your basic soldier, fastest on the field and most powerful when it comes to dealing direct damage as well as taking it; Priestess can be considered the medic of the group with her healing and protective skills; Assassin with his ability to cloak (looks like the Predator!) and stealth attributes can be considered your covert ops specialist; Ranger can also use stealth and ranged attacks (sniper maybe?); and the wizard has been compared to artillery with area of effect attacks etc.

Apart from deathmatch and team deathmatch, DM introduces the Crusader mode, where you start off in the middle map of five and depending on whether you win or lose, you will go either forwards or backwards onto the next map until you hopefully reach the enemies stronghold and conquer it to win. Another aspect of gameplay that is similar to BF2 is the use of various spawnpoints and the map on which to select them as well as change you class.

During the campaigns you will earn new skills and become more powerful with better weapons etc, and these will be saved over all the maps until the campaign has finished, when it will be reset - sort of an xp save type of thing. Should you switch to another class mid-battle, you will start that class from scratch but will keep any skills learnt on subsequent changes. Skills that can be gained vary depending on the class but include things like better stealth, zoom attack when using a bow, shield blocking and so on.

So, if you fancy a bit of swordplay (and be honest, which of you guys didn't have a sword and shield when they were kids!?) in an FPS setting, then this may be right up your street.

Full of bugs

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: October 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Do not purchase this game. It has many many bugs. THe game will not load past the first chapter causing frequent freezes and lockups.

Half Life 2 with swords and magic

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: January 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

- great game build on the HL2 engine
- could have more character development

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