I have recently been playing Lost Ark on the Russian servers with a (spotty but funny) English fantranslation and have been absolutely blown away by what this game does with it's isometric gameplay.
The game is simply GORGEOUS even if it "only" runs on Unreal Engine 3. The developers are extremely ambitious and expressive with the use of the isometric camera, freely moving it during gameplay, using it for cutscenes (all cutscenes I have come across in 30hours so far are completely in-engine and seamlessly go back to gameplay) and generally setting the mood. It's even used for puzzles where the camera will shift and rotate to give you an easier time of for example evading traps on the floor.
It will zoom in tight or zoom out so far that your character is almost a tiny speck in the giant setpieces that you then actively play in.
Below some examples I quickly found on Youtube of times I could not believe what they were suddenly pulling off and apparently the game gets even crazier as I keep playing:
SPOILERS AHEAD
Here you have a siege against a huge castle city that you actively play and fight your way into the palace. And afterwards this becomes one of the main hub cities of the game!
Later on, in the same country, you defend a Helm's Deep style fortress from an insane demon invasion and when all hope seems lost they basically send in fucking Gandalf!
Oh and did I mention how they have tons of different looking areas in the game? Like for example a village of tiny people that you enter by drinking a shrinking potion!?
I absolutely can't wait till this (rumors say this year finally) releases in the west so my friends can check it out too.
The game has been an absolute blast. it's basically a singleplayer isometric ARPG but you also have other players in the world and eventually get to huge dungeons and raid bosses. Just completely nuts.
I hope ERA doesn't sleep on this game when it comes out. I fully believe that a single player playthrough of this is 100% worth the time of anyone who like isometric ARPGS.
I could gush on and on about how amazing the different classes play too but you know, just look at this video:
The game is simply GORGEOUS even if it "only" runs on Unreal Engine 3. The developers are extremely ambitious and expressive with the use of the isometric camera, freely moving it during gameplay, using it for cutscenes (all cutscenes I have come across in 30hours so far are completely in-engine and seamlessly go back to gameplay) and generally setting the mood. It's even used for puzzles where the camera will shift and rotate to give you an easier time of for example evading traps on the floor.
It will zoom in tight or zoom out so far that your character is almost a tiny speck in the giant setpieces that you then actively play in.
Below some examples I quickly found on Youtube of times I could not believe what they were suddenly pulling off and apparently the game gets even crazier as I keep playing:
SPOILERS AHEAD
Here you have a siege against a huge castle city that you actively play and fight your way into the palace. And afterwards this becomes one of the main hub cities of the game!
Later on, in the same country, you defend a Helm's Deep style fortress from an insane demon invasion and when all hope seems lost they basically send in fucking Gandalf!
Oh and did I mention how they have tons of different looking areas in the game? Like for example a village of tiny people that you enter by drinking a shrinking potion!?
I absolutely can't wait till this (rumors say this year finally) releases in the west so my friends can check it out too.
The game has been an absolute blast. it's basically a singleplayer isometric ARPG but you also have other players in the world and eventually get to huge dungeons and raid bosses. Just completely nuts.
I hope ERA doesn't sleep on this game when it comes out. I fully believe that a single player playthrough of this is 100% worth the time of anyone who like isometric ARPGS.
I could gush on and on about how amazing the different classes play too but you know, just look at this video:
