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Game News Prelude to Darkness demo out

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<a href="http://www.gamershell.com/">Gamer's Hell</a> has a <a href="http://www.gamershell.com/news/bPreludetoDarknessbDemo.shtml">demo</a> available for <A href="http://www.zero-sum.com/">Prelude to Darkness</a>, the 3D, fantasy, turn based CRPG done in the spirit of the old <i>Ultima</i> series of CRPGs. The demo is <b>70MB</b>. Here's a bit on the game taken from the <a href="http://www.zero-sum.com/faq.html">FAQ</a>:
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<blockquote><b>How will I create them?</b>
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Character creation will involve distributing points for each of the three members of the player's party in order to increase skills, bloodlines, and attributes.
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<b>What kind of classes and races are available?</b>
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Class is not appropriate for this system, the player may or may not choose a background for the character, but the character is defined by his skills and attributes, not a class.
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There are three races available, all of which are human: Flame, River and Mixed. The racial composition of the player's party can have a huge affect on gameplay, influencing the magics available to a character, the items and skills he can learn and the people he can interact with. Gender will have an effect on NPC interactions as well.</blockquote>
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Spotted this over at <a href="http://www.bluesnews.com">Blue's</a>.
 

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Wow. I just finished perusing Prelude's web page, and...wow! This game looks really cool: turn-based, seemingly non-Tolkien, dark ambiance, and beautiful art. Why haven't I heard of it till now?
 

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It's an idependent made game. As such, they don't get a lot of coverage from the Big Boys. I know I'm interested in this game though.

It's turn based, which I like.
It's got a speech skill, which I like.
It's 3/4 isometric view, which I like.
It's not class based, which I like.

About the only thing I see that I really don't like is having full control of NPCs in combat.
 
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Interesting.
Very.
If I wasnt so tired I would download it and most likely play it into oblivion. However, to much Impossible Creatures for one day, I think.
It is nice to see a truly old school indie RPG go 3D though. Yeah, it is not very good looking, but still nice to see people trying.
 

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I haven't had a crash out of it yet. However, I did restart once I sat down to figure out how the character system worked. That's why I wrote that article on the Backgrounds in the game - to make it more accessable for others.
 

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