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Arx Fatalis

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4.2/5

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4.2

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Arx Fatalis
Description
The world of Arx is wrought with turmoil, brought to the brink of destruction by a violent war. The sun has disappeared from overhead to shroud the world in eternal darkness forcing communities to begin inhabiting the underground mines. But as food and drink becomes scarce, the wars become even more...
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4.2/5

( 214 Reviews )

4.2

214 Reviews

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Product details
2002, Arkane Studios, ESRB Rating: Mature 17+...
System requirements
Windows 7 / 8 / 10, 1 GHz, 256 MB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with D...
Time to beat
20 hMain
26.5 h Main + Sides
48.5 h Completionist
24.5 h All Styles
Description
The world of Arx is wrought with turmoil, brought to the brink of destruction by a violent war. The sun has disappeared from overhead to shroud the world in eternal darkness forcing communities to begin inhabiting the underground mines. But as food and drink becomes scarce, the wars become even more violent as each race struggles for survival.

You are plugged into this world of terror and must use bravery and cunning to uncover the long hidden secret of Arx. As your epic quest unfolds you will explore ancient temples, bustling cities and abandoned mines, unearth legendary artefacts and face terrifying foes.

Arx Fatalis features: Lots of quest and sub-quest to complete; innovative gesture-casting system with 50 powerful spells based upon 20 runes; wield over 20 crushingly powerful weapons; no two games are ever the same: storyline and events change according to your actions; hundreds of characters to befriend or murder and massive underground world to discover and explore.
  • An innovative gesture-based spellcasting system
  • A massive underground world to explore
  • The choices you make strongly influence the story, leading to one of 4 endings
Goodies
screensaver manual (37 pages) artworks avatars in-game sounds HD wallpapers
System requirements
Minimum system requirements:
Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
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Time to beat
20 hMain
26.5 h Main + Sides
48.5 h Completionist
24.5 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11)
Release date:
{{'2002-11-12T00:00:00+02:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0200 ' }}
Size:
638 MB
Rating:
ESRB Rating: Mature 17+ (Violence, Blood and Gore)

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Posted on: December 18, 2008

calienon

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Games: 311 Reviews: 2

Great game

Wow I'm really loving this game so far, the character system is really nice, and spells are pretty cool too! :)


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Posted on: July 31, 2012

JimboKudo

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Games: 256 Reviews: 6

A Good Game If You Play Evil

My only advice whilst playing this game, is to not try and please all the different sides and playing the Paladin type. If you try to be completely good, you will end up running around doing boring fetch-quests for hours. Don't be bashful, slaughter all of the good goblins, trolls, humans, etc. WHATEVER YOU DO, MAKE ONE OF THE RACES ANGRY SO THAT YOU AREN'T BORED FOR THE FIRST 8 HOURS OF GAMEPLAY.


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Posted on: November 21, 2023

Ger Bib

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Games: 381 Reviews: 192

Yeah, even today...

6 of 5 must play. 5 of 5 great story great gameplay. 4 of 5 great story average gameplay. 3 of 5 average story average gameplay. 2 of 5 play only if it's your favorite genre. 1 of 5 play if you have nothing better to do. 0 of 5 play if you're a masochist. -1 of 5 avoid. Arx Fatalis score is 5 of 5.


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Posted on: April 22, 2023

Jezebel1988

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Games: 248 Reviews: 100

Great ideas - terrible execution

It wanted to be Ultima Underworld 3 and it brought some great ideas with it, unfortunately the execution is abysmal. The worst offender are the controls. You'll get used to the complicated switching back and forth between two modes with the right mouse button (movement and interaction mode) but the magic system breaks the game: you cast by pressing control on your keyboard and drawing runes while holding said button. For the love of God some of these runes would just not register! I can overlook the somewhat dated graphics (weren't back for 2002 standard) with the low polygon count since the atmosphere is pretty good but the controls are simly unforgivable and completely ruin what could have been a solid 5-star dungeon crawler!


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Posted on: February 18, 2024

epikaffe

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Games: 38 Reviews: 3

Unplayable

The game suffers of huge frame drops when you open your stats book, it gets slighty better the lower the resultion yet the frame dip is still noticeable. As far as I'm concern there are no fixes for this issue and there probably won't be one.


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