Alright guys, so it's the end of September and I've got a game to review! Is it Borderlands 2? Well no. How about Guild Wars 2, since it was released near the end of August? Not exactly. This month I will be reviewing the much anticipated Torchlight 2. Now for those of you who are fans of Diablo II you will be glad to know that a lot of the development team for Torchlight 2 was on the team that created Diablo II.
So based on what you just read, you can come to the conclusion that Torchlight 2 is an action RPG Dungeon Crawler game. You have four different classes two choose from; Berserker, Embermage, Engineer, and Outlander. Each class has three different skill trees to help you build your character, and each of these trees is different in their own unique way. The classes themselves are also vastly different. The berserker is all about getting up in your enemies face and just attacking them as fast as you can, where as the outlander prefers to be further away shooting your target with any of the various ranged weapons available. Like you would expect, the embermage casts spells, but there are a lot of them to pick from. And lets not forget the engineer who can either take a whole lot of damage or summon an army of robots to do the fighting for you.
The item system in the game is rather unique as well. While every item does have a level requirement in order to be wielded, there are secondary requirements that can be met which pertain to your characters different stats. If you have, for example, a Focus that has been leveled up high enough, you may be able to surpass the level requirement for the item and be able to wield something much sooner than you would have been able to otherwise. Add to this that there is a large variety of different weapons and armor to wield and wear, and you have a loot of time you are going to spend just looking at the inventory screen.
Actually, how about I mention just how great the inventory system in this game is. Your character has three different 'pouches' that can be used to hold items. You have your spell pouch, your consumables pouch, and your items pouch. Each one of these can hold around 30-40 items (not sure on the exact number, I never really counted) and are auto sorted to go to the correct pouch when you pick them up. The spell pouch is for any different spell scrolls you pick up during the game, which both you and your pet (you have a pet by the way) can learn and use at the cost of mana. The consumables pouch is obviously for your points, but also for the different fish you catch from the fishing minigame that can be found while you are dungeoneering. These fish can be fed to your pet to transform them into different animals and beasts which can grant them, and sometimes you as well, and added bonus.
Add to all this the fact that Torchlight 2 is an incredibly long game if you take the time to do all the quests that are given to you and you have yourself one great game. Oh. I forgot to mention the multiplayer. Torchlight 2 also features both Online and Offline LAN (HA! Eat it Diablo 3!) multiplayer so you can connect and play the game with a whole bunch of different people. As more people join your room your characters will be debuffed appropriately (rather than make the monsters weak, you get weaker) in order to set the challenge where it should be.
If you like this style of game Torchlight 2 is definitely worth both your time and money. And even if you are just slightly interested in it, I would still suggest you buy this game. It's only $20 so it doesn't even cost you all that much.
Torchlight 2 can be purchased at:
http://www.torchlight2game.com/ OR through Steam at: http://store.steampowered.com/app/200710/
-Adam
So based on what you just read, you can come to the conclusion that Torchlight 2 is an action RPG Dungeon Crawler game. You have four different classes two choose from; Berserker, Embermage, Engineer, and Outlander. Each class has three different skill trees to help you build your character, and each of these trees is different in their own unique way. The classes themselves are also vastly different. The berserker is all about getting up in your enemies face and just attacking them as fast as you can, where as the outlander prefers to be further away shooting your target with any of the various ranged weapons available. Like you would expect, the embermage casts spells, but there are a lot of them to pick from. And lets not forget the engineer who can either take a whole lot of damage or summon an army of robots to do the fighting for you.
The item system in the game is rather unique as well. While every item does have a level requirement in order to be wielded, there are secondary requirements that can be met which pertain to your characters different stats. If you have, for example, a Focus that has been leveled up high enough, you may be able to surpass the level requirement for the item and be able to wield something much sooner than you would have been able to otherwise. Add to this that there is a large variety of different weapons and armor to wield and wear, and you have a loot of time you are going to spend just looking at the inventory screen.
Actually, how about I mention just how great the inventory system in this game is. Your character has three different 'pouches' that can be used to hold items. You have your spell pouch, your consumables pouch, and your items pouch. Each one of these can hold around 30-40 items (not sure on the exact number, I never really counted) and are auto sorted to go to the correct pouch when you pick them up. The spell pouch is for any different spell scrolls you pick up during the game, which both you and your pet (you have a pet by the way) can learn and use at the cost of mana. The consumables pouch is obviously for your points, but also for the different fish you catch from the fishing minigame that can be found while you are dungeoneering. These fish can be fed to your pet to transform them into different animals and beasts which can grant them, and sometimes you as well, and added bonus.
Add to all this the fact that Torchlight 2 is an incredibly long game if you take the time to do all the quests that are given to you and you have yourself one great game. Oh. I forgot to mention the multiplayer. Torchlight 2 also features both Online and Offline LAN (HA! Eat it Diablo 3!) multiplayer so you can connect and play the game with a whole bunch of different people. As more people join your room your characters will be debuffed appropriately (rather than make the monsters weak, you get weaker) in order to set the challenge where it should be.
If you like this style of game Torchlight 2 is definitely worth both your time and money. And even if you are just slightly interested in it, I would still suggest you buy this game. It's only $20 so it doesn't even cost you all that much.
Torchlight 2 can be purchased at:
http://www.torchlight2game.com/ OR through Steam at: http://store.steampowered.com/app/200710/
-Adam