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Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

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Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
Description
An Industrial Revolution in a World of Magick Imagine a place of wonder, where magick and technology coexist in an uneasy balance, and an adventurer might just as easily wield a flintlock pistol as a flaming sword. A place where great industrial cities house castle keeps and factories, home to Dwa...
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4.6

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Product details
2001, Troika Games, ESRB Rating: Mature 17+...
System requirements
Windows 10, 1.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c...
Time to beat
31 hMain
44.5 h Main + Sides
84 h Completionist
45 h All Styles
Description

An Industrial Revolution in a World of Magick


Imagine a place of wonder, where magick and technology coexist in an uneasy balance, and an adventurer might just as easily wield a flintlock pistol as a flaming sword. A place where great industrial cities house castle keeps and factories, home to Dwarves, Humans, Orcs and Elves alike. A place of Ancient runes and steamworks, of magick and machines, of sorcery and science. Welcome to the land of Arcanum.

 

Character Design allows you to customize your character any way you choose

  • Whether you choose magick or technology, the Arcanum world adapts and responds to your character's development 
  • Classless, point-based attribute system allows for limitless creativity in guiding your character's development 
  • 8 basic stats, such as Strength and Charisma 
  • More than a dozen derived stats, from Poison Resistance to Character Speed 
  • 16 Primary skills, including Gambling and Healing 
  • 80 Spells with 16 Colleges of Magick 
  • 56 technological degrees within 8 disciplines

 

Extraordinary Adventure Features
 

  • Explore a world as vast as it is mysterious-it would take over 30 real-time hours to traverse the land of Arcanum 
  • Meet more than 300 unique characters and monster types across this huge land 
  • Many means exist to solve the myriad quests, from dueling to discourse to thievery 
  • Take on a band of ogres in real-time, or plan your strategy through turn-based combat - you decide 
  • Accurate day and night cycles affect the gameplay, from combat to thieving skills 
  • Automatic character management lets action-oriented players delve into the quest at hand 
  • Create your own worlds or play the included multiplayer scenario online cooperatively or competively

© 2001 Activision Publishing, Inc. Arcanum and Activision are registered trademarks of Activision Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. All other trademarks and trade names are the properties of their respective owners.

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Time to beat
31 hMain
44.5 h Main + Sides
84 h Completionist
45 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (10, 11)
Release date:
{{'2001-08-22T00:00:00+03:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0300 ' }}
Size:
1.1 GB
Rating:
ESRB Rating: Mature 17+ (Violence, Blood, Mature Sexual Themes)

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Posted on: April 9, 2012

Jackal.716

Games: 382 Reviews: 2

True gem

When I first saw this game, was little confused by it. Not only music was not fitting to any cRPG I ever played (dramatic strings with melancholy of lost times) but as well point your story take you, without usual pack of friends to help and mix of orcs and aeroplanes was very Warcraft-type, unusual. The choices for your character creation were very Falloutish, if you choose one, then you cannot add this fine other one. Race matters. Attributes matters. Fine blend of magic skills and technical skills allowing you to play many time same story just to unlock them and made this nice-looking spell or big gin for elephants that requires a lot elelments to combine. I personally was very into magic this time, but it was a first time I got difficult choice because it was so tempting to add items into mechanismus, produce every needed item to survive and keep things going. Very nice world, especially much to visit in towns, great atmosphere. And did I mentioned music? Marvelous, one of many game great soundtracks I heard. Fine addition to your shelf. Story is interesting, tough you can be confused about the choices in game later on. The only issue with that game - it is requiring a lot of time to get into, exploit and complete. Definitely a must have for me.


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Posted on: August 17, 2012

OrginalBison

Verified owner

Games: 113 Reviews: 2

brilliant

Arcanum is a rarely seen mix of magic, technology, good and evil in a steampunk world setting full of mystery that you will discover bit by bit in a really facinating story. the only and i mean the ONLY downside to this game is the muliplayer is lacking.


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Posted on: September 3, 2012

Vahid1

Games: 11 Reviews: 1

Best CRPG of all time

Arcanum was masterpiece, a unique setting and ultra-open areas with best quests have been ever made. You are free to explore land of Arcanum and follow a fantastic complex storyline with or without a lot of companions scattered around. Confrontation between good/evil and technology/magic was remarkable. Maximum freedom of choice I've ever seen. Dialogs were ambiguous, many of dialog options were really dilemmas, even the evil side of game would always give me temptation! The only problem was combat system that were not challenging enough but in fact the quests didn't have any focus on combat. I adjusted game options on turn-based combat system and Hard difficulty and the final experience was superlative. Voice acting, music, graphic style ... all are gems. Arcanum is a must for all.


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Posted on: December 30, 2012

Varcis

Verified owner

Games: 103 Reviews: 4

A few bucks well spent...

I couldn't even go to the movie theater for the price of this, and unlike going to the movies, this provides HOURS of entertainment, from roaming around charming the occasional wolves to delivering woeful postages to guards, all in all this game is a must have, the mods for it revamp it, making this a beautiful high rez game, honestly, its a must have....


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Posted on: December 7, 2012

cwayne59

Games: 17 Reviews: 1

A fun and funny game

I remember this game. I still have my game disk. Playing this game is really fun. For a good laugh, I suggest starting a game with high intelligence stats, then start one with low intelligence. Check out the different dialog! LOL.


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