Tag Archives for fantasy
Trine 2
Until 2009, 2D platform games generally followed a tried and tested format (i.e. very predictable). This was all with a method of gameplay whereby the hero got from A to B, by jumping on or over objects, attacking villains and collecting objects along the way. This was until Trine arrived to present a new way…
Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine by THQ
Fancy playing as a steroid-enhanced muscle mountain of a hardass soldier that makes Arnie look like a wimp and use some state-of-the-art firepower to take on hordes of monstrous aliens? Well, maybe you haven’t got hold of your copy of Gears of War 3 yet – so why not indulge yourself instead with the gore-fest…
Runespell: Overture by Mystic Box
Imagine you’re playing a video poker machine in a Las Vegas casino, with a chap playing the machine next to you. And then imagine that a glowing wraith type creature tears forth from your coin-op, and hurls a lightning bolt at the beastly hobgoblin that has just smashed its way out of the top of…
Dungeon Siege III by Square Enix
Life is not happy in the kingdom of Ehb. The famed 10th legion, which maintained the stability of the realm, was blamed when the monarch was murdered, and its members hunted down and killed by the angry citizens, inflamed by the vengeful warrior Jeyne Kassynder. Thirty years on, the reputedly last surviving legionnaire, the Venerable…
Paradox Interactive – Magicka
From Spellforce to World of Warcraft to Lord of the Rings, fantasy adventure RPGs have thoroughly immersed us in spooky realms populated by wizards, orcs, elves and dwarves to the point where anything new is hard to imagine. Arrowhead Studios has used this as the starting point for Magicka, which is a Nordic tongue-in-cheek poke…