Titan Quest Anniversary Edition

You play a hero trying to save the lands of ancient Greece from a group on ancient baddies that are trying to bring back the Titans and rule the world. That’s all you need to know. Now go whack things. This game is a diablo clone but it does approach the formula a little differently. The best way to describe the loot system is to say that it is a percentage game. While a lot of the loot adds points directly to your base attributes, the more important loot adds points to your base attributes and a percentage to something else. An example would be a chest piece that adds +10 to your strength. That’s good but one that does that and adds 15% to your poison resistance and gives you a 8% life leech on every hit and adds 10% movement speed and etc. That’s great. The down side? The second breast plate only has an armor rating of 40 compared to the first ones 55. The other part of the game is the class system which lets you mix and match nine different classes. It’s not to different from what other games have done. The different combinations are neat to play with. Just be forewarned it can be easy to dead end your character due to some of the difficulty spikes in the game. Depending on how you developed your character and your luck in item drops there are only a couple of ways to get over this wall. Either grind until you find something with a resistance against whatever is killing you, respec your character so you have the right skills or start a new character, with a different class combo, and a new game. The last option isn’t as bad as it sounds since you can transfer the items in a previous play through to your new character and go from there. All in all if your looking for a decent diablo clone to pass the time then give this one a try. Time Played: 60 hours

As a veteran of most every arpg for pc, I can kindly say this is in my top 3. The graphics are old and out dated. The combat/stat mechanics (etc.), are the BEST of any diablo clone of the era. Better then d2 itself. The game sometimes lags (very rarely) on any machine I've played it on(love that aspect for some reason). You will die many times and pick yourself up again. You will mess up builds and you will start over again. You will listen to the music, watching your character twirl his weapon and dream of a spartan adventure. A shopkeeper will sound like a shopkeeper. The interplay of non combat and combat music is spot on in this game. I'm biased after blizzard nonsense and THQ continues to upgrade this game STILL 14 YEARS after development. A vibrant pve community with people from all over the globe. Doesn't get much better then this.

Back in 2006 I played the hell out of the demo and fallen in love with the Greeek mitology setting and the beautiful graphics. After buying the full version here a decade later though... I had to realize how stockholm-syndrome inducing this genre is. Since then, I'm completely aware of how these type of games are grindy by their nature, but it was a genuine shock on my part, I hadn't played Diablo, or much of any other similar games at that point. I still admit though: I kinda like Titan Quest. The masteries are fun, graphics still look fantastic, the music and sound design is great, so... there are quite a lot of stuff here to praise. It's just disappointing how much the game can drag forever with its dull dungeons and clone trooper enemies. I guess I'm not from the core target audience... or just more critical in thinking(?) Either way, I enjoy starting a new character and seeing how a different mastery works, so... not sure. Anyway, Titan Quest is a fun game if you are a die hard fan of the genre, or just want a time killer that doesn't need too much thinking - just keep in mind that it's exactly as grindy and over-dragged (the campaign goes forever, and the story is pretty much bare bones) as other games from the genre.

Amazing game! But it's little bit glitchy: - Sometimes you just stuck somewhere (rarely, but happens), but thanks for K button for restoring to previous fontain (with saving progress) - One time happened that enemy was invisible and untargettable, but fortunately I could hit him by Shift+Click and AoE skills - Had some game speed bug (it was visually changing to slow and fast periodically, but it was Fast in game settings all time), but it disappeared some time later (I have 144hz display, maybe it was a reason, but now it's ok) - Eletric staff missiles don't match to their hit boxes. It looks big, but hit box seems like fire/frost missile Also, game UI looks pretty small on 2K display. Yeah, I tried to use scaling in settings, but sometimes text doesn't fit in container (mostly some labels and tooltips). Regarding to advantages: - Unique skill system: you can combine 2 different classes that allows you to create a lot of different builds - A lot of different items to equip - A interesting monsters and bosses: sometimes you can't just go against a boss with your current equipment (hi Hades, I have 0% of vitality resistance, so please give me one-shot!) - Can play with my friends - etc

As already reviewed by GhostC there is a corrupted save flaw in this game. After over 140 hours of play, on two characters both leveled upto level 20, I abruptly get kicked out of play and can not return to those character at all. That is a lot of character development to lose! When trying to start the game on the corrupted characters all I get is the game trying to log on and then dropping out again almost immediately and the system trying to sync with the cloud saved games and around and around again and again. I will give it one more try and then it goes into the trash heap. I have enjoyed playing and it is easy to log on to play for just a few minutes or even hours and would have given it at least 4 stars. I am giving it 2 stars only because while it works it is enjoyable.