Diablo II was a great game, and there were a lot of mediocre clones that attempted to capitalize on it's success. Titan Quest was, fortunately, very much the exception (albeit, a full 6 years later). While Titan Quest features decent voice-acting and good music, it shined brightest in it's visuals -- and even now, graphically, it holds up extremely well. Unfortunately, the game-play and scripting hasn't fared quite as well. Aside from watching NPCs engage in skirmishes, there's little purpose they serve other than triggering dialogue and quests. But who's here for interaction anyways? It's the character progression and battles that keep players coming back -- and while the progression is still fun, the battles don't shine quite as bright as they once did. This is largely because every attack requires a click (which may not be a big deal to some, but can be tedious to others, and even frustrating to those attempting to play on a laptop, or with a touch-pad, or touch-screen device). As a side note: There's also a glaring technical limitation to this release (which I'm not factoring into my overall score) ... ▸The in-game mouse cursor will be frozen on any HD device (including the Microsoft Surface). This is a result of having application scaling set to anything other than 100% (which is far to small on HD devices). The only work around is to either set scaling to 100%, or run Titan Quest in windowed mode (by hitting alt-enter, or un-checking full-screen in the game options). Just something to be aware of before hand.
