Monday 2 December 2013

Planescape: Torment Review


Planescape: Torment is a CRPG developed by Black Isle Studios and is known as the best RPG game they've created. This game takes place in the multivese of Planescape and uses a modified version of the Infinity Engine.

The story of Planescape starts with you waking up inside a mortuary without knowing who you are or why you're there. Known only as The Nameless One, you'll have to explore this strange world you've woken up in and find out many interesting things on the way. As you unravel new things you'll eventually find what main adventure is all about.

Planescape has quite bad game play, with strange character collision and  it can take a while to target enemies.
The thing that makes this game shine is it's dialogue and the way you can affect things in the world of Planescape with each decision you make.
If you're not a fan of reading, this game is not for you, since there is not much voice acting and over 50% of the game time will probably be spent just talking to NPCs. With each character being unique and every NPCs having something interesting to say, talking and making different decisions what to say is much more enjoyable than the combat itself. The combat does not necessarily have to be in the way, since is it acceptable if you've gotten some bugs patched and in many cases you can even talk your way out of battle, depending on your in game intelligence and the decisions you've made.

The graphics of this game are pretty good for its time, but because it's made for older versions of Windows, the HD patch and some bug patches are required for playing on a modern PC, other than that there's not really any problems with the game.

As it's made in the Infinity Engine, Baldur's gate fans would probably like this game, but any RPG fan in general should check this game out.

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