For years I’ve played Diablo & Diablo 2. By far the best hack and slash game around. Its 3rd person view and ever changing (random) layouts kept the game fresh and fun to play. The game play was not designed around finishing the game on different levels of difficulty. You could complete the game in normal mode but you would never find the kick ass equipment you’d fine on hard or hell mode.
(I’ll get the Titan Quest in just a second)
However, after spending hours creating your character and completing normal mode, you soon discovered on hard mode, your character was a pussy and you died all the time. So, now you had to think about and research how to create a character build that would last through those hard levels up to hell mode. After a while it all just got old.
Enter Titan Quest. Now, it’s not a Diablo replacement or Diablo killer, however, it does have its place among the hack and slash.
You still build character classes and you still have to manage inventory. However, Titan Quest comes with a level builder tool that allows you create your own levels and have friends or family play them. This keeps the burn out of always pressing the left mouse button to a minimum.
I really like Titan Quest. It’s set in the mythical age of titans and gods and where you have to make your way to stop a titan from being released. Along the way you find weapons and equipment to help you develop your character.
Like Diablo you get a skill tree that allows you create a class of warrior. Be it an archer, mage, fighter, they all have different names but do the same function. However, unlike Diablo; for the right about of money you can move skill points from one skill to another if you don’t like how your character is turning out.
This allows you some forgiveness if you pump a lot of points into a skill that turns out to suck.
Now, the game has the difficultly level normal, hard, and super hard (not the right names but you get my drift). And like always if you want to play the game past normal you better put some research in to building your character. I’ve made it with several builds to the super hard difficulty level but just can’t complete it.
The graphics are far superior to most other hack and lashers I’ve played. You can zoom way out or all the way in. However, you will tend to play all the way out since you can see monsters a long ways before they see you.
There is alot more I’d like to talk about. I’ll write a few more articals on this game that will deal with character builds and relics and such. Over all, the game is great and I suggest anyone should try it.
