Titan Quest Preview

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E3 Preview 2005

Steeped in a time when myth and reality collided and the line between the two not just blurred, it was wiped clean, there comes a time when heroes must step up and be counted.

Welcome to the world of Titan Quest, a PC title slated for release in 2006 from Iron Lore and THQ. The title was among several shown in a pre-E3 event held in San Francisco recently, and Titan Quest was one of the feature players, revealing terrific graphical elements and solid gameplay mechanics.

The game is a role-playing adventure from Age of Empires co-creator Brian Sullivan and takes place in the time period when the Titans escaped from their eternal prison and unleashed their wrath upon the world. The journey will take players through lush realistic environments from the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to the Great Pyramids of Egypt and to the maze of Knossos and the Parthenon. The gameplay is story driven and the class system allows for customization of skills, monsters that drop loot as well as the opportunity for co-op play.

Player will have the opportunity to change the world around them, and the combat does employ rag-doll physics.

Players with mage skills can summon elementals to help fight with them (the elemental does have an independent AI), and should a player drop points into skills they would rather not use, the player interface allows them to reverse place those points and reallocate them in other areas with just a mouse click or two.

There will be 25 different character classes, both male and female, and players can combine classes. The AI is also purported to be smart, with monsters having the ability to heal each other.

Multiple campaigns, multiple quests and co-op play are other features of this title.

With the release better than seven months out, the look was an abbreviated one, but still managed to captivate with dynamic graphics and gameplay. This title looked a little like a level/dungeon crawl, with plenty of monsters to face and loot to find, all against a backdrop of mythological and ancient splendors.