Of course there’s also the hugely satisfying thunderous and loud booms, zaps and pows of your spells impacting on your victims, which never get tiring to listen to. Sound production is also a strong point too, with a musical score that continues to drive the action and top-notch voice acting from talent such as Jennifer Hale (Diablo III, Mass Effect, God of War: Assension) Troy Baker (Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes, Bioshock Infinite) and Cree Summer (The Boondocks, Young Justice). Arenas are nicely detailed with unusual architecture and geometry, highly detailed character models and impressive special effects, especially when magic spells are cast. Lichdom: Battlemage runs off the Cryengine 3 for it’s graphics and Xaviant Games have done a damn fine job of utilising this great engine to it’s full potential. The more you experiment the more rewarding the results and you’ll soon be building up an arsenal of destructive magical wonder to bring about some serious pain to anyone stupid enough to take you on. Using this interface for spell crafting becomes so addictive that you’ll find yourself mixing and matching components instinctively just to see what you can make next. You can also upgrade existing items by combining them with others to create even more useful Etherea and you can break down spells you’ve created into their original components to create something else. You’ll be able to create new spells such as summoning an icy hailstorm, a fiery grenade, a debilitating lighting strike and much more. These can be used with existing spells which combine the two and produces an entirely new spell with new attributes, making your arsenal even more deadly. As you progress and fight enemies you collect items called “Etherea” which contain bonuses such as increased damage, greater area of effect and passive bonuses for your shield. Fights are frantic, bloody, challenging and it never gets old to charge into the fray and raise hell even when you’re outnumbered.Īnother great highlight about this game is the excellent crafting system where you can craft and customise new spells to throw even more magical action into the mix. They’ll take cover, dive out of the way of your projectile spells and fight in great numbers. As for the enemies there’s quite a nice variety of them: from sword wielders to crossbow users, various magic users, the undead and other monstrosities and they actually put up a good fight too. It’s a lot of fun to watch these over-confident enemies charge at you with great ferocity, only to watch them disintegrate in a bloody mess when you zap them with your spells. The gameplay really shines through as you unleash a destructive manner of all kinds magical death on your enemies. You’ll get new sigils early on in the game and you’ll find yourself being able to pick and choose which sigils you’ll want to take with you to the fight. You’ll start out with a basic fire sigil and shield that you can upgrade and use to create new spells later. Once you go through a segment regarding your character’s past and quest, you’ll soon be in the possession of magic “sigils” granting your powers. You’ll start off by choosing either a male or a female character to become a Dragon. Roth, a powerful mage has chosen two individuals to become a Dragon and a Gryphon, both whose lives have been ruined by the cult, to take them down. The Cult of Malthus have unleashed their wrath and will not stop until they’ve taken the rest of the world. The city of Drivasser has fallen into anarchy. Developers Xaviant Games with their title Lidchdom: Battlemage hopes to let the players loose in a world where you’re given mighty, destructive powers to unleash hell against anyone who stands in your way. There is a plot to it somewhere but that’s soon forgotten when you start playing and seeing what’s on offer. In this fantasy game your objective here is to make many magical wonders and use them to turn bad guys into heaping piles of ash. You’re going on an epic quest, discovering breathtaking landscapes and fighting to defeat an impending evil to save the world. When it comes to fantasy games, the first thing that comes to mind is a wonderful, vast, epical open-world where the sky is the limit and you’re the centrepiece of it all.
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