Metareview - Mage Knight Apocalypse
With the release of Mage Knight Apocalypse, Namco Bandai may have been hoping to steal a few precious hours from RPG gamers before Neverwinter Nights 2 and Gothic 3 hit the shelves. Unfortunately, a few hours is all it takes to realize Mage Knight is one for the bargain bins. You might be better off getting your hack-and-slash kicks from Titan Quest, or even Dungeon Siege II: Broken World.
- IGN (54/100) was displeased with the game's production quality: "The storyline isn't executed very well. The frequent cut scenes never deliver any kind of engaging dialogue and are further hampered by voice acting that sways from average to terrible."
- GameSpot (44/100) didn't appreciate the innovative combat system: "Since the save points are all over the place, you'll usually only have to take a few steps to pick up the fight right where you left off. You'll quickly fall into a very repetitive and annoying cycle of death where you resurrect, fight, and die over and over again...slowly picking away at the mob of monsters until finally they're all dead. It removes any sort of challenge or sense of attrition from the game."
- GamePro (40/100) thinks Mage Knight sets new lows in pathfinding: "Allies constantly become stuck behind walls and pillars, enemies lose track of you when you walk out of their line of sight, and glitches allow you to hurl spells at blissfully unaware boss mobs. On occasion, we were forced to complete an entire level solo when our two computerized comrades became stuck in a maze somewhere."
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Hokage @ Oct 14th 2006 2:31PM
This is so true. I played it for about ten minutes and then cut it off. I really couldn't stand it.
darko82 @ Oct 14th 2006 3:25PM
It's too bad, really. Some of the screen shots and preview vids looked pretty good, and this could have been a good action-rpg alternative to the epic RPGs that require weeks of your time.
Polishman28 @ Dec 30th 2006 10:46PM
Unfortunately for me I bought the game from looking at direct2drives promo. Of course they made it seem really good just for a sale. I bought a new computer and bought the game before i could play it. Now I really regret buying it. Fortunately I bought it from Best Buy and got it for $20.00.