Review Avernum 5 Review by Scorpia

[JarlFrank]

Tags: Avernum 5; Sam Brown; Spiderweb Software

Scorpia, a woman who has been a gaming journalist for quite some time, has written a pretty good and in-depth review about Spiderweb's new game, <A HREF="http://www.avernum.com/avernum5/index.html">Avernum 5</A>.
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<blockquote>Further tinkering can be done by choosing one or two (no more) traits for your characters. These can be beneficial ones, which carry experience penalties, or negative ones, which carry experience bonuses. The negatives are so terrible, I don’t recommend them. Most increase the damage taken, which is a very bad thing.
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AV5 has some “special” skills, not available at the start (except Gymnastics for Nephils) which can be obtained in several ways: raising certain stats or skills, equipping an item, or learned from a trainer.</blockquote>
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It's pretty good, but for my tastes it delves a bit too deeply into game mechanics, talking about numbers and statistics. Things like that should rather be left to the user manual than to a review, and it confuses a bit.
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<A HREF="http://www.scorpia.com/?p=932#more-932">Read the full review here.</A>
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Spotted at: <A HREF="http://www.scorpia.com/">Scorpia</A>

 

[Mefi]

Anyone played Avernum 5 yet? I'm in the mood for a new game but am not sure I like what I've read about it so far.

 

[Vault Dweller]

It's pretty good. One of the best Avernum games, I think.

 

[The Dude]

Anyone played Avernum 5 yet? I'm in the mood for a new game but am not sure I like what I've read about it so far.

It's Avernum, what more can you say. Basic graphics, decent combat... I kinda like the new fighter skills makes fighters have a somewhat wider tactical use. Just play the large-ish demo, buy and continue the game if you like it, ditch it if you don't.

 

[Mefi]

Cheers. Worth a try then.