Review Avernum 5 Reviewed at RPG Watch

[Jason]

Tags: Avernum 5; Spiderweb Software

<a href="http://www.rpgwatch.com/">RPG Watch's</a> Dhruin took at crack at <b><a href="http://www.avernum.com/avernum5/index.html">Avernum V</a></b>, finding it worthy of 4 out of 5 stars. One of the improvements noted over past Avernums is the reduction of pointless crap combat.
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<blockquote>Speaking of encounters, Jeff Vogel spoke in interviews prior to release about trying to remove the “trash” combats – those generic fights that serve only to fill out the content. The Avernum series has always leaned towards lots of combat – and Avernum V is no exception – but it's obvious that a lot of effort has been put into reducing random encounters and beefing up quest-related sequences and boss fights. And boy, are some of them memorable – the Soultaker's Pit, for example, is one of the most insidious dungeons I've played in a long time; equal parts frustratingly difficult but satisfying to finish.</blockquote>
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Read the full review <a href="http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/article?articleid=87&ref=0&id=268">here.</a>

 

[Trash]

Spot on review. Avernum V is great fun. It would be very nice to see Vogel use a new setting though. Both the Geneforge and Avernum series are great, but some fresh breath would be nice.

 

[xantrius]

Sounds interesting, I'll give the demo a whirl after two weeks time; when I'm done drowning in deadlines. Fascinating eh.

 

[Lemunde]

I actually like the trash combat in the earlier games... Oh well.