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Summary: An entertaining adventure
Review: I just finished playing the game for a third and final time, as a warrior. I must say yhat this has been the first game in a while to bring me all the way to the end, let alone three times!The interface and graphics are reminicent of Diablo, as is the gameplay. I especially like the "true-vision" technology that only lets you see what your character would be able to see, although it does appear that your character is simply a light source and objects cast shadows everywhere. The sparkling particle effects wer a nice toutch, too. It really helped bring our the magical aspect of the game (which is very important). I found the game to be sufficiently difficult, but too hard to be fun. I felt that the game was the easiest to beat as the Warrior, and hardest as the Wizard. The Conjourer was somewhere in between and my personal favorite. This game was defintely not pushing any envelopes in terms of origonality, but it Nox's case, that's not really a bad thing. This game is great if you just can't wait for Diablo 2, or if you just want to have some fun. Plus, you don't have to be an expert to play, and win!
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Summary: Engaging and difficult.
Review: I must admit, I don't get the chance to play many software games, so I have a limited history to compare against. None the less I think this game includes all the essential characterisics that make a software game worth playing. The story line is relatively original and involves at least some degree of logical decision making. Like most RPGs you must build up an inventory of weapons, armor, food, spells, etc. All the while you gain experience points as you fend off various beasts and enemies and complete various missions. The action is also pretty fast paced. It's not a first person shooter by any means, but it's also not a strategy simulation game. Knowing quick and evasive actions and making quick decisions becomes more essential as you move on to new "Chapters" or missions. I still have not completed the game but look forward to plugging away at it until, one day, I may finish it. In the meantime i'll continue slashing away at zombies, wolves and various other assailants 3 hours at a time.
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Summary: Could be the surprise of the year. . .
Review: I would characterize this surprisingly playable game as the first person shooter (yes, meaning the UT, Q3 genre). In juxtaposition against the original Diablo, Nox has a lot fuller content and a more coherent story line consistent with a role-playing type game. Though I would admitt that the story, while just fine, is not awe-inspiring like Torment. In juxtaposition against Baldur's Gate, Nox is a lot more fast pace, requiring infinitely more mouseclicks and less thought in combat. Agility of fingers--not strategy--rules the day here. In that respect the game is similar to Diablo, but with the added dimension of more player movement option like jumping (ie a first person shooter). In multiplayer the game gives you UTisque options like...uhu...capture the flag? That is a very creative concept for a game like this and it adds to the replayability. The graphics and sound are very good but certainly not revolutionary. The bottomline, though, is that Nox is extremely fun to play. In the end, isn't that the ultimate purpose of a game?
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Summary: Poor MP & Short SP, but Still Fun
Review: I'm a huge fan of RP games, and review a ton of them... Atfirst glance, this game seems like a rip-off of many other games outthere. Diablo or Baldur's Gate, anyone? What original ideas. You can be a warrior, conjurer or wizard. You come from Earth, you're sent into another dimension where you are the Only Hope. Even worse, you're a male from a Florida trailer park whose idea of fun is crushing beer cans against his forehead while rebuilding truck engines. Let's talk about the anti-good-gaming ideal. However, when you start up the game, the graphics amaze you. The whole sparkling mouse, the smooth graphics on all the select screens, and then the game play graphics. Simply amazing. Barrels are not just background decoration, they are all discreet individual objects. Rocks, skulls, you name it - all individual objects that can be moved around. The enemies all have personalities. The three factions all have distinct reasons for existing, and are in conflict with each other. The comments are humorous and the individuals have personality. I suppose at times the coders can overcome even the most inane marketers when it comes to game design. The spells are great! The conjurer, my favorite character type, has a Pixie Swarm to help defend him, and can have various creatures hang out with him as sort of a roving company of friends. I like the wolves and spiders myself, but you can acquire just about any enemy out there to hang out with you and help protect you. The training levels are easy to get the hang of. I dislike the cone-of-vision, because even if you were just in a room, you suddenly forget where everything is in it - even the walls - and have to visit again to make sure you didn't miss anything. If you swing by a room, it draws it as a complete room, so it's difficult to tell from maps where you have been and where you have just passed by. Also, save games are limited and you can't describe them at all. They simply list the character name and actual time - making it quite difficult for a multi-gamer household like mine to keep characters separated! There are other minor bugs - icons don't consistantly draw in, and multi-player bugs are slightly annoying. The game itself is WAY too short when played in single player mode. Multi-player gets old really quickly, as you run around trying to kill each other over and over again. How about cooperative quests, like in BG? In general though, the graphics and gameplay on this game are quite better than I had expected from a game that touted male-only characters. If only they had put a bit of effort into thinking about the people playing this game, and what they would want to play! I would have rated this game extremely highly, instead of only reasonably high. Worth renting to play through, but not a keeper.
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Summary: Diablo (solo or co-op play) fans, wait for Diablo2
Review: If you enjoy multiplayer Player vs. Player, BUY THIS GAME! However, if you're a fan of solo or cooperative play, keep reading. The crisp graphics and ability to interact with almost everything around you as you play this game is incredible. There is so much attention to detail in your surroundings and you can talk with just about any NPC you encounter, which is how you get most of your quests. The gameplay is slick and fast, and a lot of fun once you get used to using both buttons on the mouse (left-click to attack, right-click to move). And if you enjoy multiplayer PvP games (on a LAN or over the Internet), then this is definitely your game. But it's not all positive. I'll admit that I was looking for something to not a PvP fan, and that is what this game was originally designed for - solo play was an (obvious) afterthought. There is no cooperative play in Nox at all, and as far as I can tell, there won't be anytime soon. Solo play is engaging, but the game is rather short and you can't play again as the same character class and make it a truly different game (i.e. focus on different skills or choose a harder level of play) since everything else stays the same. The game comes with 2 CDs which made me think it was an expansive game, but solo play never touches the 2nd CD. Diablo2 is going to have around 5 CDs, so you KNOW it's a much larger game than this one. And with random generation of dungeons, quasi-random assigment of quests, and the ability to play the same character through multiple games of increasing difficulty, D2 is a "longer-playing" game than Nox. From the screenshots and gameplay reviews I've read about Diablo2, and the actual playing I've done with Nox, I think that Diablo2 will be a better solo-player game and well worth the money spent on it. Nox is a good game, but having spent $40 on it, I expected more.
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Summary: Who Came up with NOX
Review: If you still aren;t sure whether or not to click that "add to cart" button, let this review change your mind. I am actually only about halfway through the game, and already it is awesome.
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Summary: Nox is great
Review: Nox for the PC is one of the best RPG's i've played for the PC.It has fun gameplay, sweet graphics and all aruond great play. If you like Diablo 2 you'll love Nox. it's top down 3rd person view is very helpful sometimes. I never get enough of it. Oops time to go I need to beat hamlet of brin any way Nox is a great buy well worth the money.
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Summary: An Excellent RPG!
Review: Nox has generated obvious comparisons to Diablo, but it is great in it's own unique way. The background animation is fantastic, and the on-line Player v. Player mode is a lot of fun. (allowing each player to "talk" to the other and "whisper" things to team-mates allows for great possibilites). I liked the First-person view of the character, and not being able to see things outside of his line of view proves realistic. While the Warrior's powers could have been modified somewhat, he and the Conjurer are the best to play. True, there are only three clasess, unlike Diablo II, which will have something like 5, but each character is interesting enough. Some of the dungeon levels get repetitive after awhile, but the villages and forests are great fun.
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Summary: Fun game, good value
Review: Nox is a fun little game. What it lacks in originality, it more than makes up for with excellent gameplay and performance. Considering how low the price is for this game now, it is definitely worth buying. The storyline for this game is linear, but each of the levels are large and have a lot of areas to explore. The theme of the game is kind of light-hearted and cartoonish. You walk around the levels, hacking or shooting or zapping monsters, finding keys, and breaking open stuff for goodies. In between levels, you can usually visit merchants to buy new stuff and get your equipment repaired. There's nothing really original there. Where Nox excels is in some other areas in which other games often fail: 1. The graphics, animation, and sound for this game are excellent. Each room has a bunch of small objects to interact with, although most of them are things that you don't need. Still, if you want to, you can smash wine barrels for the heck of it and push rocks around. 2. The interface is easy to use and fits the fast-paced gameplay very well. There are hotkeys for three potions, five spells, and two weapons.
3. The game is short, but it is genuinely replayable. At the beginning of the game, you choose one of three distinct character classes. The beginning missions for each class are totally different. The later missions are the same, but each class has such distinct abilities that you have to play them somewhat differently.
4. The inventory system was refreshingly un-tedious. Maybe it's not realistic, but it's a nice break from the routine of constantly rearranging your inventory.
5. The game actually has good gold balance. What I mean by this is that you don't end up the game with a ton of gold and nothing good to spend it on. You get progressively more useful items at each level, but they cost more. Each time you spend gold, you can usually buy one or two things that you want, but you have to spend your money wisely. NOX is a fun game to play. Its short length and shallow, linear plot are the reason that it gets four stars instead of five.
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Summary: Fun game, good value
Review: Nox is a fun little game. What it lacks in originality, it more than makes up for with excellent gameplay and performance. Considering how low the price is for this game now, it is definitely worth buying. The storyline for this game is linear, but each of the levels are large and have a lot of areas to explore. The theme of the game is kind of light-hearted and cartoonish. You walk around the levels, hacking or shooting or zapping monsters, finding keys, and breaking open stuff for goodies. In between levels, you can usually visit merchants to buy new stuff and get your equipment repaired. There's nothing really original there. Where Nox excels is in some other areas in which other games often fail: 1. The graphics, animation, and sound for this game are excellent. Each room has a bunch of small objects to interact with, although most of them are things that you don't need. Still, if you want to, you can smash wine barrels for the heck of it and push rocks around. 2. The interface is easy to use and fits the fast-paced gameplay very well. There are hotkeys for three potions, five spells, and two weapons.
3. The game is short, but it is genuinely replayable. At the beginning of the game, you choose one of three distinct character classes. The beginning missions for each class are totally different. The later missions are the same, but each class has such distinct abilities that you have to play them somewhat differently.
4. The inventory system was refreshingly un-tedious. Maybe it's not realistic, but it's a nice break from the routine of constantly rearranging your inventory.
5. The game actually has good gold balance. What I mean by this is that you don't end up the game with a ton of gold and nothing good to spend it on. You get progressively more useful items at each level, but they cost more. Each time you spend gold, you can usually buy one or two things that you want, but you have to spend your money wisely. NOX is a fun game to play. Its short length and shallow, linear plot are the reason that it gets four stars instead of five.
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