Quick summary - It's the shortest Story based RPG you'll have ever played, and it'll be the nicest looking RPG on your iDevice
Long - It's an action based RPG using the Quake engine, now before you get all excited bare in mind while it uses the Quake engine it really only uses it as far as I can see for cut-scene's and the stationary combat. The premise of the story is that your father has been killed by an evil man and you grow up to avenge his death, you do this by having between 7 and 9 (could be 8) close combat fights with various enemies during which you can slash, parry, dodge and block your way to success, ending with hopefully a fight against the big bad boss. I did this in maybe 30 minutes on my first play and died to the boss and then the "RPG" part really dawned upon me.
You do get character progression in that when you die your son gets all your items and your abilities, so when he appears in 'x' years time to fight the good fight he has everything you had, this is called Bloodlines, and I guess there is an infinate number of bloodlines as people say the game is infinate but in all honesty having had almost three full playthroughts now I can't see me playing it once the big boss is dead (I'd guess for me that's 2 more bloodlines judging on my progression).
The RPG elements involve you buying new weapons/armour and leveling up your base skills, Health, Attack, Block, Magic. Not really very deep at all, it's all based on the action.
Design of the UI is I'd say a little sloppy, no option to customise controls and the dodge buttons on the iPad at least are right out the way and you should have been allowed to move them around.
Movement with the game though is my biggest gripe, a tech demo of the Quake engine allowed me to look around, walk around a large castle and down to a river and so on, in this it's all point and click and only on set items, be it a door, a potion, a bag of money or an enemy. Any old style book you would have read with
If you go East, goto option 352
If you investigate the rug, goto option 172
If you balance on one foot on the edge of the cliff, goto option 14
You would have had 50 times more options than you get in this
Overall - I do enjoy it, but think it could have been SO much more, I just hope the buckets of money they made on this means we'll get a much better RPG from them soon, this is mindless fun but far too short, and feels rushed
Get it if you like the action elements, if you want an actual RPG it's one to totally avoid though
Long - It's an action based RPG using the Quake engine, now before you get all excited bare in mind while it uses the Quake engine it really only uses it as far as I can see for cut-scene's and the stationary combat. The premise of the story is that your father has been killed by an evil man and you grow up to avenge his death, you do this by having between 7 and 9 (could be 8) close combat fights with various enemies during which you can slash, parry, dodge and block your way to success, ending with hopefully a fight against the big bad boss. I did this in maybe 30 minutes on my first play and died to the boss and then the "RPG" part really dawned upon me.
You do get character progression in that when you die your son gets all your items and your abilities, so when he appears in 'x' years time to fight the good fight he has everything you had, this is called Bloodlines, and I guess there is an infinate number of bloodlines as people say the game is infinate but in all honesty having had almost three full playthroughts now I can't see me playing it once the big boss is dead (I'd guess for me that's 2 more bloodlines judging on my progression).
The RPG elements involve you buying new weapons/armour and leveling up your base skills, Health, Attack, Block, Magic. Not really very deep at all, it's all based on the action.
Design of the UI is I'd say a little sloppy, no option to customise controls and the dodge buttons on the iPad at least are right out the way and you should have been allowed to move them around.
Movement with the game though is my biggest gripe, a tech demo of the Quake engine allowed me to look around, walk around a large castle and down to a river and so on, in this it's all point and click and only on set items, be it a door, a potion, a bag of money or an enemy. Any old style book you would have read with
If you go East, goto option 352
If you investigate the rug, goto option 172
If you balance on one foot on the edge of the cliff, goto option 14
You would have had 50 times more options than you get in this
Overall - I do enjoy it, but think it could have been SO much more, I just hope the buckets of money they made on this means we'll get a much better RPG from them soon, this is mindless fun but far too short, and feels rushed
Get it if you like the action elements, if you want an actual RPG it's one to totally avoid though
