Customer Reviews

Enclave

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

This may be the best NON-RPG full-action fantasy game I've ever played. The game focuses on applying quick and dirty fighting tactics against a host of the most realistic orcs and beasts you'll ever meet on a PC screen.
The basic bad-guys are very creepy and real, but to the game's discredit, enemies never attempt to evade, and bodies disappear.

You eventually get access to several (12+?) different characters, each very different. You learn the abilities of each while running like hell through a very realistic mediaeval world. Lighting, graphics, and sound are incredible! So darn
convincing, you'll be glad you bought this game. Not too much strategy here, a litttle... but most importantly, you will HACK, SLASH, and SORCERY your way to victory. I'm playing on the HARD difficulty setting, but if you're impatient, play EASY difficulty setting, and advance the levels quickly! I've only advanced to the third level so far (after 2 hours), the levels are short and intense.

This game is a cross between Tomb Raider and Gauntlet, more real than Die By The Sword.
There seem to be very few Dungeon related hack-n-slash games like this on the market. I think I need to acquire them all.

I've heard some hard-core gamers say that Enclave bored them. So, if you want an innovative, ground-breaking, mind-expanding, platform-strategy game, this is not it.

Do you like heavy-metal music, fantasy, and action games? Do you complain about too many controls and buttons on game-controllers these days? Then you'll love Enclave.

I look for 5 things in a game: 1)good gameplay ... 2)good story (especially if RPG) ... 3)no/few fixable bugs ... 4)no anti-piracy bs ...5)decent graphics
I'll admit, this game can be frustratingly hard.
Being physically disabled/very litlle manual dexterity does make it much more difficult, but luckily, Enclave had cheat codes(... I think all games should have them).
So, if you run into a really rough part, use them; then turn them off.
This games doesn't rely on killing and re-killing to level up, instead you search for treasure.
The more you find, the better you can equip your character ... trust me; find all you can :-)
Like the two separate campaigns. Though the "Dark" with the Sorc is easier.
It's fun to cover the whole map ... jumping, swimming and running around like a fool looking for treasure
The "treasure total" is on the screen, so you know how much there is on a map ... whether you might want to redo it
Think about the games we've purchased in the last year with ... bugs; one unfinished; companies stop releasing official patches(... thank you to the gamers for the unofficial patches); anti-piracy bs; poor/short gameplay etc...
You can even go back, use inferior characters + cheat codes ... see how many times you would die and redo till you feel like you made an honest effort
The characters are "different", so you can have fun experimenting :-)
I hope they make a sequel.
Maybe the "Light" will have a strong character this time :-)
One note: the "Light" ending was "throw the kitchen sink at you" ... I thought that ruined the flow of the game
Actually the final few maps were very difficult ?
Maybe it's my poor game-playing; the weaker characters ?

If you've played and enjoyed Rune, then you will love this game. This is a very good hack and slash game, there should be more of these in the market today. It has excellent game play and some spectacular graphics. If you like hack/slash games you will love this. My only complaint is, where is the multiplayer???

i have just played the demo and have been stunned by the amazing graphics and the actual game play. It is totally respoonsive and full of indepth detail. The colours and detail of the buildings and characters is very good and very realistic regaurding movement. Cant wait for the release.
Keep up the good work black label.

i have played probably around a hundred different games in almost 20 years and enclave has been the best game i ever played. it may seem a little difficult but you can select an easier level too. it was one of the few games i wanted to go through all the way to the end, and there are many much more complicated games despite what people below say. it has great graphics even compared to many newer games, sharp and colorful unlike many greenish blurry games; or at least that is what it was on my machines (intel processors + radeon video cards). i got interested in rpg games after this but they are not the same and i think they would seldom have the same graphics anyway. so whoever interested in this kind of story and does not like rpg games very much should try enclave. it is a beautiful game.

i myself would love to see them make new versions to it. i have tried prince of persia, painkiller, doom 3 and other famous games. even they didn't come close to it.

Very Fun third person slasher game - You have alot of characters to play with and you can build them up as you play - The only thing that could have been improved is the ability to do special moves and also the lead characters looks paled in comparison to the computer controlled players - once your over these things - the game is very fun - and you can play both light or dark campaigns - which are completely different games.

Enclave is fun to play. The gameplay is straightforward as the story featuring a balance magic and battle system. Don't expect too much from it and you'll not be disappointed. If completing a particular level is troublesome switching between characters proved quite handy. Bad A.I. is another frustrating feature of this game. The game is pretty easy to beat when there is a single enemy to beat but when there are multiple enemies to fight the game is ridiculously tough. Some baddies can't even jump across ledges and most of the times fell into the gap. And I never saw any enemy change his tactics from offensive to defensive even if his health is literally down to nothing. There are little flaws like at one time an Orc seemed to be suspended in mid air while jumping from a ledge. Another major flaw is that the blood doesn't seem to fall on the ground; instead it disappears in mid air. But, these glitches do not affect the overall performance of the game.

There is a fun plot to Enclave. Unfortunately the controller settings are unnatural and the "camera angle" switches enough to make you sick. It is impossible to see what's going on from a steady view. It tries to simultaneously be a 3rd person game and a 1st person game. Any movement can cause the view to spin or squirrel around. It is entirely inexcusable. That this sort of problem was allowed to persist into the finished version of the game shows a disdain for serious gamers.
On another note, the enemies are stupid, slow and too easy to kill.

The game does have great graphics and has a fun hack-and-slash style, but the game is beyond easy. I've only played the demo so far, but from what I played, it wasn't much. The light campaign's first level took me five minutes to beat on the hardest difficulty. Then I played the dark campaign. This was slightly harder and took me 15 minutes, still not much. The only reason it took so long was because I kept backtracking to get all the gold. The game doesn't offer much of a challenge, and it gets boring after the first time through.

Had so many graphics glitches that I couldn't even play it...scenes would load w/ no map at all. I have a laptop w/ an ATI Radeon 7200 series card driver and DirectX 9. When the maps did load properly, the game play was exceedingly easy and no challenge at all. I wish I could get my $30 back, but the package was already opened and I don't have a shrink wrap machine.