I've been playing Titan Quest on LAN with Siriuz and Sai. It's pretty sweet actually. The game feels and plays a lot like Diablo II without feeling like a B-grade copycat game. Set in Greece during the time of Hercules (Heracles) , the game brings back reminiscence of movies like Clash Of The Titans , Jason and the Arogonauts and such.
The story is that suddenly Greece is ovverrun by fey creatures and undeads and the Spartans are having trouble handling it. You are given to task of finding out about the cause of this 'invasion' and off you go adventuring.
With the standard point and click style of play of Diablo II the game is pretty fun and fast paced. There are no character classes as in Diablo II but instead you get to choose a mastery from a choice of 8 masteries , each masteries have their own skill trees and are quite different from each other. At a later point in the game you get to choose a second mastery to either focus on one mastery or diversify a bit.
As interesting as the game is , there seems to be something lacking so far. There isn't anything that scary in the game. Where are the multi tiered dungeons going deeper and deeper and getting darker with every level you go down until you have to use your torch to see anything ? Where is the sudden shock of a guy running at you shouting " Fresh meat !" ? Ah, you can try your best but it's still tough to beat the classics.
Still, it's a very good game. If you loved Diablo II you'll definitely enjoy this.
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Minimum System Requirements:
•Windows® 2000 or XP
•1.8 Ghz Intel Pentium IV or equivalent or AMD Athlon XP or equivalent
•512 MB RAM
•5 GB free hard drive space
•64 MB NVIDIA GeForce 3 or equivalent or ATI Radeon 8500 series with Pixel Shader 1.1 support or equivalent
•DirectX® 9.0c compatible 16-bit sound card
•8x or faster CD-ROM drive
•Keyboard, Mouse
Recommended System Requirements:
•Windows XP
•3.0 Ghz Intel Pentium IV or equivalent
•1 GB RAM
•5.0 GB or more free hard drive space
•128 MB NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series or ATI Radeon X800 series or equivalent
•DirectX® 9.0c compatible or Soundblaster X-Fi series sound card
•8x or faster CD-ROM/DVD drive
•Keyboard, Mouse
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At 6:42 PM,
WHAT!!?? You mean this is NOT a Diablo expansion? You guys LIED to me!
But... this is sooo... much like Diablo 2...