Arx review at Khabal
Arx review at Khabal
Review - posted by Saint_Proverbius on Fri 14 February 2003, 22:09:47
Tags: Arx FatalisKhabal Gaming has posted their review of Arx Fatalis, giving it a 7/10. Here's a snippet:
Forever in a funny box
As always, perfection is an impossible task. To make things worse, this game imparts a feeling of claustrophobia, such that you constantly feel trapped in a box that varies in distance and height.
Also, since everything is underground, and all paths are linear, there is not much lateral exploration. But then, that is actually a good thing, because the game has a tricky and clumsy jump mechanism: It?s hard to be a sword-wielding do-gooder Mario. There are also some path finding and collision detection glitches that enable you to get stuck when climbing a slope or some steps and this is prevalent even with the 1.15 patch.
Jump puzzles should stay in platform games, where they're actually fun.
Spotted this at Blue's News.
Forever in a funny box
As always, perfection is an impossible task. To make things worse, this game imparts a feeling of claustrophobia, such that you constantly feel trapped in a box that varies in distance and height.
Also, since everything is underground, and all paths are linear, there is not much lateral exploration. But then, that is actually a good thing, because the game has a tricky and clumsy jump mechanism: It?s hard to be a sword-wielding do-gooder Mario. There are also some path finding and collision detection glitches that enable you to get stuck when climbing a slope or some steps and this is prevalent even with the 1.15 patch.
Jump puzzles should stay in platform games, where they're actually fun.
Spotted this at Blue's News.
