Nox™

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While the multiplayer scope of this game is hard to realize now that the official servers have been down for 5+ years, this was one of the best fast-paced online games at the time of release. Not only was there epic, huge games of CTF with dozens of players on each team, but there was also the 6-player Quest mode, allowing players to defeat randomly-generated monsters and collect randomly-generated loot in one of the best co-op modes ever made. If you want to play online with other people, I'd check out http://noxforum.net, where a few dedicated players stuck together. Yes, the single-player modes are okay, but the multiplayer was the real meat of this game. There's no joy quite like crossbow-sniping that warrior all the way across the map.

Nox is a game I actually had on disk ages ago, and one that I occasionally lamented the fact that I no longer had the disks, as it was a game I wasted many hours of my 'youth' on. I was never sure though if it was really that good of a game, or if I just had fond memories of it. Turns out, it really was a good game. While not without it's failings, Nox is a very solid game that has aged extremely well. It's a bit more 'hack and slash' than a traditional RPG (like Baldur's gate or the like), and it's a little more story driven than a traditional ARPG (like Diablo or the like). so some people will just dislike it as in their eyes it has the downfalls of both. To me though? I think it has some of the strengths of both, while bringing to the table something of it's own. An RPG that is much more focused on the skill of the player than how many levels their character has.

i dont know what it is about this game but I played this SO many times, and loved it.

I have very fond memories of Nox. I still have my original discs, along with the manual and other paraphernalia. When others were playing through Diablo 2 I was playing Nox. And loved it! Nox excelled in some areas where the other slashers didn't and I think some of this comes from how the story played out for each character. There were no generated levels, where each entry into a new area built levels from scratch. However, instead of starting off at the same point with your character class and playing from there, Nox had you choose a class and then gave you a story to follow that was different from what the other classes whould experience. Almost the entire game was unique for each class, which encouraged playing through for each one just to see what they were given. The graphics were not bad either. The world was drawn beautifully. Character development was not really there. It was possible to develop skills in spells or such as you leveled up, but by and large you just got stronger as you went along. However, this wasn't a bad thing, and it didn't detract from my overall enjoyment of the game. At $5.99 Nox is well worth a try!