"What you, as you can! We do not make a clone of Diablo! »- Have vowed to the audience of developers Iron Lore in each interview. "On the contrary, we are trying to move away from the annoying stereotypes!" The audience also shrugged her shoulders and wondered - why are these guys so vehemently deny the obvious? Maybe they do not like the famous "mysheubiytsu?
It is true that the closer the release date, the less often heard such statements. When Titan Quest finally came out, it turned out, it's pretty neat sketched a copy of Diablo. Developers embarrassingly silent, and the players .... Players happily lined up to the counter. After all, what could be more time-tested classics?
 | DIY Conan the Barbarian |
For beginners, it may be worthwhile to specialize in military and thieving skills. This combination is very easy to play, extremely tenacious and causes great damage to enemies, combining military bonuses to attack and evasiveness with critical blows the thief. Special techniques and magic tricks such a character does not possess, it is simple and unpretentious throw right and left enemies beyond the monitor.
 | |  | Snow people and would be happy to throw a hero in the gulf, but only the engine will not allow it. | | What kind of an Egyptian tomb with no mummies? |
Upon closer examination If you look at Titan Quest over his shoulder to play, really, the similarities with the onetime hit Blizzard just one hundred percent. A tiny man in isometric projection, still runs on static fields, forests and mountains, and regularly went down into the dark dungeon. All the same to him at every step upon by hordes of monsters, and he heroically throw right and left them with weapons, magic, and the left mouse button. From the carcasses of defeated monsters regularly pours gold, experience points, and (actually, for what and play!) Various magical items. Classics are classics, and no matter what man, monsters and dungeons are now fully three-dimensional.
But if you sit down for the game itself, then after a few minutes it becomes clear that this is not a simple "Diablo", and expand and improve. In a familiar gameplay every now and then emerge pleasant things about which you think: "Oh, how we lived without it before?" By any sword or ax available statistics, including the value of DPS (damage per second, damage per second damage, the most important parameter). It is necessary to move your mouse over an unfamiliar amuletik or shield, the game helpfully compares it with the fact that currently uses a hero, and tells you whether to change the flea. Therapeutic Drug conveniently added in a separate bag and not clog up the inventory. All done with the mind.
Also pleased to note that Titan Quest boasts a logical system of generation of treasures.No matter how often kill boars in their carcasses will be no single gold coin. With the corpse of an archer is able to remove the onion, not a two-handed sword and a magic book. Approach is certainly sensible, but it has a negative side - very fast player knows of any monsters that falls, and begins to purposefully prey on the most "rich" individuals. However, it can be seen as conceived by designers "chip".
 | |  | At the cemetery and can not even step, so from the ground is not dead climbed ... | | Centaur ram horns - an interesting look at the classical myths ... |
Continuing your way through ancient Greece, we find a more global innovation. It turns out that the inability to start the game choose a class hero - not forgetting the developers, and a cunning plan. With the increase in the levels of our character will specialize, and later - and second. Total number of majors - eight, four "military" and four "magical", and each is markedly different from the rest. Warrior stupidly hit on the head with an ax, a thief cut the throats poisoned dagger, the hunter set a trap and archery. The magic of the earth can turn into a stone golem and spit sprays of lava, and necromancy raised from the land of the dead and sucks the life energy.
Each specialization - your tree skills carried over virtually unchanged from the same Diablo II. Skill points, as always, is not enough, so on their investment should seriously think about. Want - you can thoroughly examine a single school, do not want to - you have the right to pick up on tops in two. 8 professions - it's exactly 36 unique combinations, on any whimsical taste.
If you fail invested in a useless skill, a special coach for some money to let you reallocate skill again. Unfortunately, once by choosing a specialization, it is impossible to abandon it - the coach only change the skills within the selected schools.
| In anticipation of the patch |
Health Ministry warns - playing unpatched Titan Quest, you risk suddenly left without the pumped hero. In rare cases the game irreparably corrupts the data file of the character. Therefore, we recommend that you postpone the game on the shelf at least until mid-July - to this date, the developers promise to release a patch that eliminates the problems with the save file.
 | |  | Dungeons are very tiny, almost the entire game takes place outdoors. | | It is a pity that the monsters of different species should not fight among themselves - would be a nice battle! |
Plot question Could be an interesting story in Clone Diablo? The correct answer is - not "yes" or "no", and "what's the difference." Not for the sake of the plot because the game. Play in order to pump the hero to the maximum level and cover up the legendary artifacts.First, the hero is pumped in the green hills of ancient Greece, then moved to the Egyptian sands, also visits with a trip Babylonian hanging gardens, and finally arrives at no less than ancient China, where he successfully completes the game to immediately begin anew on a higher difficulty.
Of course, in all these areas are teeming with a variety of lousy murderous monsters. And, of course, all this diverse (no joke, as many as 85 unique species!) Povylazila evil into the world with some kind of sinister purpose. Of course, in the case involving the titans that clear from the title game. Angry Titans want to avenge a good Olympic gods for past wrongs, and the good Olympian gods such an eventuality was not happy. The plot unfolds languidly, the player receives its tiny portions, through poorly dubbed dialogue with local residents. Fortunately, dialogue is easy to dissipate, and we can again run into battle with monsters. The main thing - do not forget to look in the log if there are any new job there.
Tasks and quests are found here in abundance, sometimes even with a rather amusing wording - for example, to transfer the caravan across the mountains. But unfortunately, in practice, all missions will inevitably be reduced to carving stock monsters in a certain section of the map. Nevertheless, to perform side quests worth it - for them give the money, good things and most importantly, the invaluable points for buying skills.
| All the colors of the rainbow |
Multi-colored magical items - the main source of joy and success in Titan Quest. Having mastered the adopted color-coded in the game, you can easily determine for how the subject is not worth a bend, but for what you can give six months of life.
- White color names - ordinary object, what the game thousands
- Yellow - magic item, with weak magical properties, slightly better than the ordinary white
- Green - a rare magic item
- Blue - an epic subject, very rare
- Purple - the legendary artifact of antiquity. Do not even expect to see him on the complexity of Normal.
 | |  | The Egyptian people, alligators involuntarily reminded of the cartoon Cheburashka ... | | Man with an exclamation mark above his head - not at all nervous, because he simply is a matter to us. |
Beauty of the ancient world Designers have tried to glory - Titan Quest turned out wonderfully beautiful. Humans and monsters look and move naturally, the water glistens in the sun, the flame torch throws light on the metal, the grass swaying under his feet the day gradually gives way to night. The physics engine also contributes to - the water running mathematically correct wave, hefty boars press down bushes, and enemies from the blows of the hero fly off on a half-screen and a pleasant crunch are imprinted in the cliffs.
Sound part is also pretty bad. Clang of weapons, sounds, blows the whistle of arrows - all as it should, though without any frills Dolby 5.1. But the music is worse - it is primitive and intrusive than an hour playing the hand she pulls the slider to "volume of the music" to its left. An hour later the same operation is repeated with the slider, "loudness of speech" - voice conversations in the game awful, the actors shamelessly and stupidly overplayed grimace. But overall, this is petty squabbles - in fact, not for pleasure actors' intonations we play these games, not at all.
| Useful advice to soldiers |
If you went by the warrior, at the earliest opportunity Flush Skill War Horn (Battle Horn). This capability, which allows for a few seconds to stun all the monsters around, absolutely indispensable, not only at low levels, but almost to the end of the game. Especially effective in combination with a circular attack War Wind.
Nice detail - in the Greek ports are ancient triremes, and Egyptian - Nile Court. The designers were not too lazy to check with the historical reference. Multiplayer Multiplayer mode in a computer game - the thing is extremely important, and depends on it very much. Good multiplayer is able to give long life serednyachki expressionless, and conversely, poor implementation of it can turn a potential hit in a one-time crafts.
Multiplayer portion of Titan Quest, you guessed it, all cloned from Diablo. Anyone can create their online gaming server, register a new gaming session and invite a couple-six friends go for a run to the nearest boss. Solution is very sensible and proven over the years.
But for some strange reason, Iron Lore have departed from the classical formula and decided to make no distinction between single-player game and multiplayer. This means that both modes use the same characters, and files with their data stored on the user's computer. This, in turn, means that you can easily hack into the data file of your character, change its settings, and then withdraw his supervoina a million lives on the Internet. Perhaps the developers should consider some kind of hidden protection from hackers, but at the moment the situation with the multiplayer mode is just astonishing.
Another stone in the garden of multiplayer (and to a lesser extent, single-player game) - in Titan Quest does not provide for the generation of random levels. How many times may begin anew, always hard-coded map of the dungeon in advance, and all the monsters are placed in the right place. Partly offset this negative presence of a convenient and flexible level editor, but really, really expected of us that we are each time before the game we manually redraw all levels?
| Useful tips to magicians |
At school, Storm (Storm) hides discreet ability Storm Nimbus, which adds to your melee attacks a bit of magic damage. If you play a mixed military-magic class and suddenly faced with the monster, resistant to your weapon, - Storm Nimbus easily decide the outcome of battle in your favor.
 | |  | At times, the game allows you to take part in the massacres "against an army of monsters." But for some reason only on the side of the army. | | Designers have tried to glory - Titan Quest turned out wonderfully beautiful. |
Play or not play? If you have a word with Diablo on her face beatific smile appears - immediately run to the store for a box of Titan Quest. After playing in your favorite genre out every year.
If you've played Diablo II and Dungeon Siege, and they seemed amusing to you, but monotonous - yet to try. Titan Quest got rid of many of the shortcomings of his ancestors, and certainly will give you beauty.
If such a game cause you just yawn - alas, Titan Quest is not for you. Despite all the decorations and improvements, in fact, it remains a wholly owned, carefully make a clone of Diablo.
| Do not miss! |
In the Greek part of the campaign on the road to Delphi, in a small grove inhabited by a hermit, he's part-time trader. How to find it: before reaching the bridge leading to Delphi, turn off the road to the north and carefully comb the forest. By hermit-businessman makes sense to come back regularly - in his shop often have very good products.
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