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Great game with a few caveots...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Like others have said, the best way to review a game like this is to compare it to Diablo II. So here we go...

-Graphics in TQ far surpass Diablo II. They are simply amazing. Be warned though, I have a GeForce 7800 and still see some slowdown in areas.

-Physics...When you walk though tall grass or reeds they ripple as you pass. You leave a wake when you walk through water. If you kill something on a hill thier items will roll down the hill. Dead monsters react like "ragdolls" and never land in the same pose twice, they aften end up slumped over part of the landscape. All this, combined with the great graphics makes for a great experience.

-Character Classes work a bit differenlty than in Diablo II. In TQ you start off simply choosing your gender. Once you hit level 2 you select one of eight masteries, at level 8 you choose another if you want. This allows for quite a few combinations. So far it's proved to be a good system, we'll see how balanced it is at the higher levels.

-Monster loot works nearly the same as Diablo II. You have items ranging from broken to legendary. You also have set items, relics and charms. All of which are color coded so you know it's rarity at a glance. One big difference is that in TQ if you see a monster wearing armor or wielding a huge magic weapon, you will see that armor and huge magic weapon drop to the ground as loot when the creature dies. Most of it is broken or worn but it's still pretty cool that the monster is using the magical items he drops.

-They've simplified things in TQ a little over Diablo, for better or worse. Items don't need to be repaired in TQ, they never wear out. You don't have to identify magic items, they are known as soon as you pick them up. Everyone has the ability to open a portal to town at any time, so town portal scolls are not needed. They basically got rid of the annoying little money sinks.

-TQ includes an editor for creating custom maps. This could extend the life of the game considerably if it gets garners a good following.

Now, the caveots...

-The music isn't as good in TQ. The music in Diablo II really set the mood, you just don't have that in TQ.

-No secure servers for multiplayer games. Without this, there's no way to know if a character and his items were all obtained honestly.

-There are a few bugs in TQ. The biggest being with multiplayer, it's basically unplayable. They are promising to fix it but until then TQ is really a single player game. No gaming company out there QAs thier games like Blizzard, so invariably you have to wait for a couple patches to come out before you can truely trust the stability. Sad but true.

All in all i'm really enjoying Titan Quest. I look forward to coming home from work and playing every day. What more can you ask for?

Just great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I keep playing the same levels again and again because I am afraid the game will end. My wife really hate this game. she says I spend more time with the game than with her, unfortunately she is right.

If you value your relationships or your hands and eyes don't buy this game, otherwise don't think of missing it.

Fun, but buggy

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game has ram problems. The longer you play, the slower it gets until any more than 2 enemies on the screen brings the game to a crawl. I have two gigs of DDR2, which should be plenty on an XP machine for this game (and no my computer isn't bogged down with spyware, viruses, etc.)

Also, spells linked to the right mouse key won't always cast or won't cast immediately.

The AI is pretty bad as well. You can often walk up to enemies before they even turn to attack you. That may be linked to the difficulty level however.

Despite all this, I enjoy the game when I have the chance to play.

wont even install on three different computers

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I purchased tis game without doing my homework first. this is the last time i trust this comany. i wanted to like this game as i played diablo, diablo2 and sacred and loved them. so as soon as this game came out i purchased it without researching issues on the internet. i could have saved myself 50 dollars had i have done that. the games comes on 5 cds and there seems to be a manufacturing defect on disk 2 that prevents the install process from completing. thus i cannot even install it. i tried on all three of my home computers with the exact same result. i then searched the web and found the issue i described. i attemted to contact thq 2 times now but have gotten teh standard reply about it being a driver / hardware / windows issue. if you look into the system event log, it even states a bad sector was encountered on the cd. i have searched all the websites associated with thq and ironlore, the developer, and cannot locate a phone number. this also should have been a dead giveaway that the company is not interested in your feedback or concerns onyl the money from the initial purchase.

AGAIN, I CANNOT STATE ENOUGHT TO NOT PURCHASE THIS GAME FOR FEAR OF GETTING THE MANUFACTURING DEFECT THAT PREVENTS THE GAME INSTALL AT ALL.

Not worth fifty dollars

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: October 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Here is what I know about this game:

1. Has very steep hardware requirements.

2. Good idea to patch the game, they are up to patch version 1.15 now.

3. You can not rotate the screen to obtain a different line of sight. You are stuck with the 2D isometric view. Yet monsters can see you even if they are off the screen, I consider this cheating.

4. Some of the terrain does not become transparent when you are on the other side of it, this prevents you from seeing it, many times you are then attacked by monsters, I consider this cheating.

5. The villians are uninteresting and one dimensional, they do not even talk.

6. Graphics are nice but they what else would you expect with these hardware requirements.

7. Quest lack imagination, basically go fetch or else its the apocalyse.

8. The story was unimaginative, see Jade Empire for a game with imagination.

9. The sound was okay but it was just there for mood not used for anything else.

10. You can not save the game where you want, only at designated points can you save, this is one of my pet peeves.

11. Game respawns the same monsters you just killed when you save, now you have to fight them all over again.

Go to gamefaq.com and read some of the review over there. If you want to buy this game make sure you have a cutting edge computer and the game is in the bargain bin.

Most bugs and crashes in a game I have ever experienced

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: August 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Well talk about rushed out the door. Today I have finally had it with what could have been a pretty good game. Every time I play I crash to the desktop or my comp restarts at least once every hour or two. This was a minor annoyance since the game "happens" to save my items I have collected, although my map progress is erased. It seems the developers used this as a quick fix to the repeated crashes. This was bearable since the game was pretty well paced and felt slightly better than diablo 2 in terms of reward to work ratio. But today my character's quest log was erased and now my time I have spent to get to the end of the egypt senario was flushed down the toilet (which is what I will do with the DVD after my request for help to Ironlore is ignored). How bad can programming get? This bad! This game has the worst programming. First..(actually second you already heard the first and worst) is the graphics programming. Sure they look pretty and the rag doll physics are nice to look at, but WTF my comp is sweet with a Geforce 7800 and the fps are a joke at times at 1280x1024. I have never seen such low quality (relatively speaking) graphics at such a low frame rate with such choppiness. Second is the insanely imbalanced classes. Play melee and get pwned. Play a magic class (nuker) and pwn. Why such a bias? My warfare char was underpowered in damage and the armor seemed not to do anything. My earth char was doing sick damage and still taking hits like the warfare with cloth armor??? Someone needs a shot of D&D's Ac system. Third is... well the experience. I hate when you can feel a sweet game but you just can't grasp it. Kind of like hanging from a cliff and your friend is reaching out to you. This game needed about 2-3 months more to be "tested"....but wait, that would leech funds from profit and the suits would not like that.........

Great game with a few flaws.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: February 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Titan quest is an over the head 3rd person hack and slash RPG that is really one of the first solid options since D2. This is not Diablo 3, it's not Diablo 2, or 2.5, or any other version....So why is the gameplay so similar? Diablo fans will notice a multitude of features and gameplay that scream "Diablo", but really, there aren't really any other ways of doing this kind of game right, you're bound to see the similarities.

Pros -
* Beautiful 3d engine _IF YOUR COMPUTER CAN HANDLE IT!_. Grass sways, immense amount of detail, but it looks fairly lackluster on slower machines, many non-gaming machines that are several years old won't really be able to handle it, take note of the min requirements.
* Long amount of gameplay, a friend and I have been at it quite a while and gotten through 1 chapter. (of I think a total of 3) Stack the upcoming expansion on, and you could have a game that takes you 50 hours just to get through on normal difficulty.
* Good enemies, solid gameplay. Overall it's just fun, if you like Diablo type games, and you're not expecting it to be exactly like Diablo, you'll enjoy this.
* Decent sound and music, not fantastic but I liked it enough to keep it on.
* Fun multiplayer, play with friends, it gets harder with more people, making things more challenging etc.
* It's cheap! Around $20 now, worth the investment if you like this type of game for sure.
* Different melee/caster trees allows excellent "pure" combinations i.e. caster/caster or melee/melee, but also makes for some interesting hybrid classes.

Cons-
* Lack of support/info. This game I think was fairly successful, but not like I'm used to, so there isn't an abundance of support or item databases etc.
* Fairly steep computer requirements.
* No character customization! You get to pick male or female, that's it. No features, sizes, nada.
* Quests are boring, not that I expected them to be otherwise.
* Odd graphical glitches if you turn the settings all the way down on certain video cards, honestly not too big of a deal.
* I haven't beaten the game yet, fairly low level (23) so I haven't seen all there is too offer, but the gameplay seems almost too simplistic. Bind a main attack spell/skill and use it forever... Cast support/heal spells occasionally.

Bottom line -
Titan Quest is a solid purchase for people who enjoy hack and slash rpgs, collecting cool gear, and learning a little mythology in the process ;). Worth the low price tag, and it will enjoy added content/replayability, not to mention a bigger online playerbase, when the expansion comes out first week of March, 2007.
3.5 Stars.

Awesome!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Some call it a Diablo clone..i am ok with that. The game is highly addictive and fun...tons of content and things to do.
It is a bit hard on older pc`s but i can live with it.

I am a FPS fan and i really hated RPG games because it was always about building tons of soldiers, gather resources and throw them at the ennemy and do that scenario until game over.And i was never playing RPG`S because of that because i got bored fast of that type of game.

I have finally found a game that is different and i love it!!!!

Buy it!!!!

Peace

might be a good game if it would install

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: July 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was looking for something new to play and after reading some early reviews on Titan Quest, I headed off my local store to buy a copy. It turns out I should have done some more research before I payed out 50 bucks. Simply put, even though my computer more than meets the minimum systems requirements and I have all the latest sound and video drivers, it won't install. The cd-rom version comes on 5 disks and every time I have tried to install it, it comes up with errors on disk 2 on the file creatures.arc. The manual says that the game was largely tested using nVidia GeForce series 6 and 7 graphics cards as well as the creative soundblaster x-fi series sound card, so if you have this hardware on your system, then you might experience fewer problems. From what I have read on the online support forums about this game, the dvd-rom version seems to be less buggy. That's the good news. The bad news is that even if you manage to get it to work, I understand there are a number of in-game bugs including frequent crashes, character deletion and graphics errors. In conclusion, if you buy this game you might have a great gaming experience. Some people have. You might also wind up spending 40 or 50 dollars for a game you can't play. Buyer beware on this one.

Do Not Waste Your Money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: July 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

We play alot of World of Warcraft, but thought this game looked like fun. We have two new computers that we bought with all the upgrades for gaming. That said - we couldn't even get this game to start on either computer - even after downloading every patch, a new directx file, and even writing a little code recommended by the IronLore designers on message boards. We kept getting a fatal error everytime we tried to get the game started on both computers. Take a look at the message boards for this game and pass on buying it. Even if you can get it started there are SERIOUS bugs and issues with it.

Try getting support from IronLore (the developers)? The online support page doesn't even recognize this game. The phone support number never lets you get to a live person and says there are technical difficulties so you need to call back (not surprised after seeing the masses of people having trouble with this game on the message boards and likely calling for help, they probably just turned the phones off).

We're filing with the Better Business Bureau on this company since they have no business releasing a $50 game that is so messed up noone can play it. This game is a SERIOUS ripoff!!

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