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Dark Souls by Namco Bandai on PS3
If your idea of an engaging fantasy role-play game is to spend several hours in an open-world environment gradually increasing your skills and armour in a leisurely fashion by picking off moderately threatening monsters, then you’ll find Dark Souls a chilling shock to the system – this is no Skyrim. The spiritual successor to FromSoftware’s…
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim by Bethesda on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3
For once, one of the most eagerly anticipated games of the year is not centred around a gung-ho marine and his squad blasting urban landscapes into mounds of rubble, but instead focuses on a condemned prisoner who holds the key to the survival of a fantasy land facing its direst threat. When The Elder Scrolls…
Choosing the best role-playing games (RPGs) and adventure games: ITReviews.com Buyer’s Guide
Traditional adventure games involve exploration, puzzle solving and logic skills. The adventure was one of the first genres of computer game invented, after the basic arcade stuff such as Pong, simply because at their simplest, they didn’t require any fancy graphics – just plain text. Today’s adventure and role-playing titles are a bit more sophisticated,…
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings by Namco Bandai
When the first Witcher game was released in 2007 it was an overnight sensation. Based on a series of Polish folk fantasy novels, it centred on the scarred, semi-mythical hero Geralt of Rivia, a monster slayer for hire who was feared and mistrusted by most humans who viewed him as useful but a dangerous freak…
Two Worlds II by TopWare
In many ways, Two Worlds was always on a hiding to nothing. The original RPG was released in the shadow of the mighty Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, which is still generally acknowledged to be the finest ever game in the genre. Although it had a huge map and tons of engaging side quests, there was too…