The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut
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Includes: The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing - Complete Pack, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II - Complete Pack, and The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing III
Grab your weapons and embark on an incredible adventure in the gothi...
Includes: The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing - Complete Pack, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II - Complete Pack, and The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing III
Grab your weapons and embark on an incredible adventure in the gothic-noir world of Borgovia, where mad science threatens the peace between monsters and mortals. Save the day with your charming companion, Lady Katarina (who happens to be a ghost). Explore the wilderness and the grim districts of a metropolis twisted by weird science, and don’t forget: you might never know who the real monsters are! The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut is the definite collection of three stand-alone episodes told as one continuous story, with six playable classes and a new endgame mode with a huge variety of open missions!
Enter a memorable gothic-noir universe – Explore Borgovia, the land of monsters, magic and weird science.
Over 50 hours gameplay in the campaign – Play through a refreshingly unique story, spiced up with wry humor and snappy dialogue.
Specialists needed! – Choose from six playable classes, each of them a specialist of the monster-hunting profession. Defeat your foes with steel and gun, master the art of weird science or take control over the forces of magic and shadows.
Huge variety of skills – The huge and complex skill tree, unique to each class, gives you a vast range of opportunities to make good use of your chosen class.
Action-packed adventures – Fight fierce battles against supernatural foes with diverse skills and abilities.
Rage system – You can charge up to three skill modifiers called PowerUps by spending Rage points collected from impressive feats.
Lady Katarina – Use the special abilities and tailor the skills of your remarkable follower.
Hunter’s Lair – Build and develop your hideout to stash collected loot, trade with non-playable characters, teleport between locations and forge new items.
Tower defense mini-game – With enemies invading in waves, you have the opportunity to defend your Lair and other strategic locations with deployable traps and several upgradable functions to ward off evil.
New level cap – Reach level 100 and evolve further in the endgame featuring a Glory system, rare items and two types of unique endgame currency.
Scenarios – Play scenario maps with randomly generated terrains, monsters, objectives and special conditions.
Never a dull day in Borgovia – Try the daily quests, challenges and weekly events that will give you new missions and long hours of entertainment after the campaign.
Multiplayer – Become the greatest monster slayer of all time while playing in one of the cooperative or PvP multiplayer modes (4-player co-op mode, Touchdown, Arena or Battle Royal).
I am currently going through all the parts for the fourth time (the first part is the best).
Fighting gives you a lot of satisfaction, the locations are beautiful and atmospheric, the music is wonderful.
And Katarina. Without her, this game would not be the same. Great character.
I would highly recommend for you this game. If you are H&S games fan, you will not be disappointed
Incredible game. Fun story, great levels to look at, fun to grind and find gear and set stats and skills, etc., Did most of my playing on Steam and bought it here to run the Prometheus Enhanced mod apart from the Vanilla game.
I generally enjoy Diablo clone style games and RPGs, having played a decent chunk of Diablo 2 back in the day and more recently games like Torchlight, Path of Exile, Warhammer Chaosbane, also a bunch of older isometric RPGs like Icewind Dale that I keep replaying over the years and such, so I love older RPGs.
This time I was disappointed. I usually pick a ranged class, a mage or a hunter, but do not shy from melees either with a tanky knight at times, and I always feel excited to sink my teeth in and explore the new skill trees and experiment with my builds and strengthen my character.
This time around I felt like trying out a rogue class expecting poison and traps, blinks out of combat, throwing daggers and chemical grenades, disengaging and maybe circles of spinning knives on short cooldown.
4 hours in and I am level 11, jaded and bored, and still waiting to find a skill I can unlock that will rejuvenate my interest in continuing my playthrough. The leveling up system is both simple and confusing. Restrictive, with a myriad of uninteresting skills you have to keep investing in to unlock the next tier that might be more interesting, when you are allowed to unlock tier 2 skills a few hours later when you hit the required level 20 or 40 and 10 mastery points in the appropriate tier 1 skill tree so you can linear move on to tier 2 or stabby stabby simple stab, now your stab tier 2 marks opponents for damages at 10 marks or something.
There is a rage system that allows you to choose extra effects on your next ability usage from the ability enchantments you HAVE INVESTED POINTS TO. For example you have a stab that throws poison splinters around on hit, you can invest points on its secondary actives for a rage effect of it throwing 3 extra splinters when used with 1/3 of your rage, or for the splinters to travel 1 meter further, or for the splinters to pass through enemies and not stop at 1 enemy hit. All of those actives should have been passives to enchant the skill from its bare bones form.
Meanwhile the passives are equally lackluster, 10 damage bonus to the first hit after turning invisible, your NPC companion attacks heal you for 0.9 percent of your max hp.
Because none of the skill trees seemed good, I started investing my companion’s levels to a passive aura that increased the chance of me finding magic item drops, which seemed good at first giving a 5% or 10% chance increase at tier 2 only for it to decrease diminishing returns later on, you inspec a whole level so your magic gear chance goes from 12% to 15%. Got an epic an epic gear drop, it scales with my level so epic gear level 7 at the time, the stats are slightly better than blue rarity gear.
Then you get to the user interface and I just don’t want to play anymore. Because the game had this washed out, desaturated hues that made all details get lost in a graysh smudge (even with the HD texture pack installed) I tried upping the saturation from the options menu. I failed miserably, couldn’t adjust the bar with my controlled, no matter how I tried to move the saturation bar to the side with the arrow buttons, the controller pads, the tab altering triggers, while holding the choice button or not, nothing worked and I kept accidentally moving down to another option or changing tab.
The item comparison is also a mess and the stat change preview lies to you so you are better off trying to figure yourself if that
400 gold worth item that gives passive +5% bonus to all resistances, main bonus poison res 14, armor 23
is better than
rare item worth 600 gold with flat 14 poison and armor res and 1 ability point bonus to the character stat that gives 0.5 armor bonus is superior to the previous as the game indicates with gold value and a green stat increase in your armor stat if equiped.
Long story short the leveling up feels meaningless and unfun, restrictive and unintuitive with endless navigation between characters and tabs to invest xp points in underwhelming check trees.
Good game, even though the companion leveling up is quite slow, the game crashes from now and then, the further you go the harder it is to find better items than you already have and the adventure map part is broken in the higher levels, it is almost impossible to play any of the adventure map levels.
Cons:
Bad voice acting that took me out of the immersion...like they didnt take it seriously beyond Van Helsing and Katerina. Major lapse by the developers.
Always mobs and no other types of attacks on you. Gets old. Seems too arcade like. Since combat is a major part of the game this was a big deal. It just got boring.
After these 2 cons I just wasnt invested in spending hours into the game building characters. I uninstalled it. Life is short.
Pros:
Excellent art and graphics
Great Music
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