Silverfall reviews

Set in a world of fantasy dominated by the great, opposing powers of technology and nature, Silverfall gamers must choose between these forces in order to conquer all forthcoming quests and save the principal city from falling. Two companions will accompany them on their journey through the fascinating world of Nelwe. Decision-making is key throughout the game, as players' choices impact both storyline and accumulation of skills. Silverfall offers a unique character building system of advancement and equipment that allows for complete freedom to customize characters. Gamers can develop unique characters such as scientist troll magicians, elemental elf warriors, or mercantile goblins. Fighting and magic are employed throughout the game, and vary from melee, ranged and technical to light, elemental and dark. Gamers will play throughout a 25-hour main quest, numerous side quests and two multiplayer modes, player-versus-player and co-operative. With four races to choose from, nine skill sets encompassing more than 130 individual skills, over 100 monsters, and advanced 3D graphics, Silverfall replenishes the RPG genre with a memorable hack-and-slash action adventure.

• The choices influence the game in several ways:
• Recruitment of different allies for the final battle. The goblins of Cloudworks will help you if you choose technology, the Beast-men of Gaian if you select nature. Different weapons and armour have an influence on the battles and the visual aspect of the player.
• Two separate skill trees each provide 10 special talents (lycanthropy or implant, insect invocations or radioactivity..).
• These skills are not offered to the player choosing the opposite way. A player who has the skill of lycanthropy instead of having implants will not fight in the same manner.
• Lycanthropy increases the player's force and speed of combat and gives him the "berserk" capacity.
• It is very interesting for players who have not developed their physical skills very much as this allows them occasionally to be very effective in melee combat.
• The implants, when received, provide specific skill bonuses. For example, a mechanical arm will provide bonuses in long distance precision shooting and the possibility of using firearms.
• Modification of Silverfall, the principal city, according to the player's alignment. The city changes in appearance, the merchants do not sell the same merchandise, etc...

System requirements:

• PC Processor Type Intel® Pentium® 4 processor, AMD Athlon XP™ processor
• PC Processor Speed 2.8GHz
• PC Operating System Windows XP
• PC System Memory 512MB RAM
• PC Hard Drive Space 10GB
• PC Video 128MB ATI RADEON 9500 or NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT or higher video card
• PC Sound Card DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card
• PC Drive Type and Speed DVD-ROM 8x