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Fun! FUN! FUN!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: August 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Not the deepest storyline yet it will keep you up all night slashing and zapping and laughing!

Simple and linear yet beautiful cartoonish RPG will keep you hacking and slashing..."just a little longer" into the early morning hours!

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Poor MP & Short SP, but Still Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 16
Date: June 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'm a huge fan of RP games, and review a ton of them... Atfirst glance, this game seems like a rip-off of many other games outthere. Diablo or Baldur's Gate, anyone?

What original ideas. You can be a warrior, conjurer or wizard. You come from Earth, you're sent into another dimension where you are the Only Hope. Even worse, you're a male from a Florida trailer park whose idea of fun is crushing beer cans against his forehead while rebuilding truck engines. Let's talk about the anti-good-gaming ideal.

However, when you start up the game, the graphics amaze you. The whole sparkling mouse, the smooth graphics on all the select screens, and then the game play graphics. Simply amazing. Barrels are not just background decoration, they are all discreet individual objects. Rocks, skulls, you name it - all individual objects that can be moved around.

The enemies all have personalities. The three factions all have distinct reasons for existing, and are in conflict with each other. The comments are humorous and the individuals have personality. I suppose at times the coders can overcome even the most inane marketers when it comes to game design.

The spells are great! The conjurer, my favorite character type, has a Pixie Swarm to help defend him, and can have various creatures hang out with him as sort of a roving company of friends. I like the wolves and spiders myself, but you can acquire just about any enemy out there to hang out with you and help protect you.

The training levels are easy to get the hang of. I dislike the cone-of-vision, because even if you were just in a room, you suddenly forget where everything is in it - even the walls - and have to visit again to make sure you didn't miss anything. If you swing by a room, it draws it as a complete room, so it's difficult to tell from maps where you have been and where you have just passed by.

Also, save games are limited and you can't describe them at all. They simply list the character name and actual time - making it quite difficult for a multi-gamer household like mine to keep characters separated!

There are other minor bugs - icons don't consistantly draw in, and multi-player bugs are slightly annoying. The game itself is WAY too short when played in single player mode. Multi-player gets old really quickly, as you run around trying to kill each other over and over again. How about cooperative quests, like in BG?

In general though, the graphics and gameplay on this game are quite better than I had expected from a game that touted male-only characters. If only they had put a bit of effort into thinking about the people playing this game, and what they would want to play! I would have rated this game extremely highly, instead of only reasonably high. Worth renting to play through, but not a keeper.

Fun game, worth the money...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: August 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Allright, I bought this fairly dated game a few weeks ago in a bundle package with Final Fantasy VII for an extra low price. I figured "Two games, they sound good, can't go wrong!" Well, I was righter than rain. Nox is one of those few and far between games that is tons of fun, without being too complicated or involved. The single player storyline is fairly decent, and being able to play the same game three different ways is a big plus. The magic system is a kick to use, although the re-sorting and sifting through spells to use them on the fly while being killed by a berzerk gnome is absolutely no fun. However, the game usually makes up for it by being easy enough to overlook the fussy magic system. The game also offers quite a few downloadables from the web site, including a Gauntlet-style "arcade" mode that one or more people can play. The multiplayer mode, which even though I haven't played it, sounds quite unappealing. The game is too "arcadey" to begin with to warrant frenetic runnning around and dying 47 times a minute. I foresee being very frustrated by it. Overall, the game delivers a lot of fun, rich colorful graphics, FAST gameplay, and certainly won't dent your wallet. A good buy for mainstream gamers everywhere.

Fast, funny, and heaps of fun!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: February 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

While sitting in his trailer in a Florida trailer park, Jack Mower (along with his TV!) is suddenly sucked through a vortex into the quasi-medieval world of Nox. There he finds he's the only person who can rid that world of the evil and malevolent sorceress, Hecubah, and he can't go home until he does. He can choose to follow the path of the warrior, conjurer or wizard, each with its own attributes, skills and challenges. Your character is always male, but if you have something against the name Jack, you can change it, along with other physical attributes.

I started out as a warrior, because that's usually the easiest character to play in these adventure/RPG hybrid games, since you have plenty of brawn to hack and slash your way through the foes, while toting about practically everything you come across. It soon became apparent that enough money to enable purchase of the really cool stuff is hard to come by, especially if you want to keep your weapons and armour in good shape. Even if you tote about all you can carry, it doesn't raise much when you get to a shop. Also, one of the areas is practically impossible to negotiate without ranged weapons, which are prohibitively expensive, and you don't find many on corpses or in chests. The warrior has no magic skills at all and is dependent on food and potions for healing and curing. You can only carry a limited amount at once and you always seem to run out at critical moments.

I left my warrior in the castle and started out again as a conjurer, as I'd read in some reviews that this is the most diverse and interesting character to play. Well, I haven't played as a wizard, and probably won't, but playing the conjurer is great fun. You visit the same places, but have quite different challenges and meet different people. A conjurer can use bows, crossbows and staves, can wear leather armour (some you find in the latter stages are pretty cool) and has heaps of offensive, defensive and healing magic at his disposal. The most interesting spell enables you to charm animals to assist you and later you can even summon them to help. Your great mid-game foe, the mimic, is a worthy ally when summoned, especially against the vampire lichs. In one of Nox's great ironies, monsters in the conjurer game drop heaps of ranged weapons that a warrior would kill for, but which are useless to the conjurer and raise hardly any cash. I'd advise not to buy arrows, as you find more than enough in the latter stages and you can use the cash for better purposes. And carry a few spare sets of armour into the final chapter, as you'll go through it quickly and any armour is better than none.

Nox has often been compared with Diablo, and while I can see why that comparison can be drawn, I would liken it more to Revenant. Like Revenant, it has a good story line, very impressive graphics, and a very simple control system. But it leaves both Diablo and Revenant floundering in its wake, since it has a pleasing amount of gameplay, acceptable voice acting, challenging (but not impossible) puzzles, and a satisfactory ending. I wasn't having much success in the final showdown, so I restored and tried a different approach (always take note of your latest find - it's often a clue to defeating your next foe). That time Hecubah could not withstand the concerted attack, and after a great little final cut scene, Jack (and the TV) were restored to Earth.

I'd read that Nox is very fast, and boy, was that an understatement. Battles in this game, particularly in the latter stages, needs amazing reflexes, something I'm not overly endowed with. However, I am blessed with cunning and persistence, and after my character died three or four (or even ten) times, I'd managed to figure out the puzzle, or a good strategy against the monster(s). Some of the later monsters move with lightning speed, often only needing one hit to splatter Jack and his gear all over the screen, so a well-positioned charmed or summoned ally makes an excellent distraction, allowing Jack the nanosecond needed to get off a good shot or spell (I didn't have much success with bombs).

I loved Nox, but since I've revised my personal scoring system, I can only give it 4 stars. I'm saving 5 for that really unforgettable game, and although Nox was great fun, it really was too similar to Diablo and Revenant to outscore them.

cool game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: April 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this is one of the neatest games I've played. OK there are no chick characters and you can only customize you char so much, BUT it's so funny. The sound effects, and the visual is just great. It's not very realistic looking and it's a little faster than what I was used to, but it's definitely way too much fun (extremely time consuming, as every time I play, I end up at my computer for hours!)

The best PC Game, ever played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Nox is an absolutely amazing game. The intrigue within the storyline and the capability to play three completely different adventures rocks! Defentitly worth the dough, if not more than that. This game truly blows Diablo out of the water with its excellent game play and convincing voice acting. Have fun with this game!

A decent game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

(...) Nox's opening sequence is rather fun to watch, as far as humor comes. Jack, an ordinary guy, is transported into a fantasy world with {of course} a great evil overbearing the land. That in itself is not unique, but not to worry. You get to choose what color of shoes he wears! Yes! I've waited so long for this!

There are 3 character classes. No, not Wizard, Thief, Warrior, but instead Wizard, Warrior, Conjurer. There are supposedly lots of weapons, but after beating it once of twice I found myself getting just about none of them. That's ok, really, you spend half the game looking for a more ideal weapon to fit your arsenal. And yes, of course, it is the only weapon you will probably ever use once you get it.

Online, if you don't have cable internet, get read yfor LAG. And this isn't just plain old lag, where things are kind of choppy, this means that you can't see ANY other players, or it is so choppy you will just scream in frustration, or both. Too many maps to download, too. Must admit, though, when you DO get to play, it is really fun. Better fights with more action than Diablo 2, or anything I have played so far.

It's easiest to win as a wizard, because once you get the invisibility spell the game's a snap. For the warrior, you must really be a master of your reflexes, because you have to master your skills to win. The conjurer is most fun to be, but I think also the hardest, because you can summon creatures to help you fight, but unfortunately, you don't get to summon things until the very end of the game. And here is the major drawback: The game is WAYY too short. Only 10 quests, and you can't play the game over again as the same character. You'll find yourself at the highest level, with lots of spells and weapons, and then suddenly, it's over, and you didnt get to use all your cool new stuff.

A bit of a dissapointment, but worth a shot.

Diablo meets Whack-a-mole

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: April 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When I first started playing the game, I thought I had purchased a classic. Something as simple as Diablo, but with a story, an immersive world, and a few unique twists (like the conjurer class). However, after a couple of hours I was quickly proven wrong. Combat eventually deginerated into what could best be described as a mideval whack-a-mole. The challenge of combat boils down to this: try to get your mouse to center over a rapidly moving target, while healing and/or trying not to get hammered. Some of the enemeies moved some damn fast, I literally spent an hour running around in a circle while trying to hit this equally fast thing with a few dozen spells. Eventually I figured out the trick then that makes all combat trivial (no spoiler here). Then I felt no desire to finish the game. Wait for Diablo 2. In the meantime play PlanetScape, Thief II, Unreal Tournament

An entertaining adventure

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: April 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I just finished playing the game for a third and final time, as a warrior. I must say yhat this has been the first game in a while to bring me all the way to the end, let alone three times!

The interface and graphics are reminicent of Diablo, as is the gameplay. I especially like the "true-vision" technology that only lets you see what your character would be able to see, although it does appear that your character is simply a light source and objects cast shadows everywhere. The sparkling particle effects wer a nice toutch, too. It really helped bring our the magical aspect of the game (which is very important).

I found the game to be sufficiently difficult, but too hard to be fun. I felt that the game was the easiest to beat as the Warrior, and hardest as the Wizard. The Conjourer was somewhere in between and my personal favorite.

This game was defintely not pushing any envelopes in terms of origonality, but it Nox's case, that's not really a bad thing. This game is great if you just can't wait for Diablo 2, or if you just want to have some fun. Plus, you don't have to be an expert to play, and win!

Nox is great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: September 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Nox for the PC is one of the best RPG's i've played for the PC.It has fun gameplay, sweet graphics and all aruond great play. If you like Diablo 2 you'll love Nox. it's top down 3rd person view is very helpful sometimes. I never get enough of it. Oops time to go I need to beat hamlet of brin any way Nox is a great buy well worth the money.

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