Mage Knight Apocalypse

by Namco

Product Features

• Beautiful and unique 3D world, with a free camera system allowing players to zoom in close to the action or pull back to admire the world's beauty
• Five unique character classes, hundreds of skills, and thousands of weapons and items
• Mage Stone system of forging and alchemy allows any item to be customized in hundreds of different ways
• Scores of unique enemies including some of the largest and most daunting foes ever seen in an Action RPG
• Streamlined interface means players spend more time playing

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000FAMQ3Y
• Item Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: September 26, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,875 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Five Heroes One Fate Infinite Adventure!Product InformationIn Mage Knight Apocalypse is set in the richly detailed Mage Knight universeplayers taken on the role of one of five guardians warriors sworn by oath toseek out the heart of evil plaguing the land and stop it no matter what thecost.  Guided by the magical and mysterious race known as the Solonavi theguardians embark on an epic journey to rescue their world from the hands of anarmy of pure evil determined to bring about the Apocalypse.As the forces of Chaos rise a creature of unimaginable strength and destructivepower is born to lead the enemy: the Apocalypse Dragon a seemingly unstoppablefive headed monstrosity.  In order to face this threat players cannot go italone they must rally support from all of the factions of th eland and recruitbrave heroes to fight for their cause.The future rests on the shoulders of these noble adventures and the battle toend all battles is about to begin.Product HighlightsEpically Stunning Storytelling!A beautiful and unique 3D world provides the panoramic backdrop to an enormousstory in the upcoming Magic Knight storyline.  A free camera system allowsplayers to zoom in close to the action or pull back to admire al the heavenlyglory that has only before existed in their imagination.Epic depth and variety!Five unique character classes to choose from use hundreds of skills andthousands of weapons and items.  The "Mage Stone" system offorging and alchemy allows any item to be customized in literally hundreds ofdifferent ways creating tens of thousands possible unique items.  All ofthis combined with the limitless potential of online play creates an engrossingand flexible action RPG experience.Evil never looked so good!Battle against scores of unique enemies including some of the largest and mostdaunting foes ever seen in an Action RPG.  Marvel at brilliant specialeffects in a beautiful 3D world as you s

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is amazing, October 2, 2006

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E. L. Sapp "vtcheme" (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mage Knight Apocalypse (CD-ROM)

The title says it all. I ordered this game one-day delivery from EB Games (since Amazon didn't have it yet), hoping it would live up to my expectations.

It exceeded them.

The graphics are amazing, though the camera controls are tricky at first.

There are 5 pre-generated characters with different skills, but that does not mean you have to play each one the same way every time (unless you want to). Each character has three "skill trees" and using lower level skills unlocks higher level ones. The manual says that mastering one skill tree is an accomplishment; mastering two is possible, but very difficult. Mastering all three is impossible.

As I'm playing, I find I am focusing on one tree, but using another enough to build up some skills in that one. I completely disregarded the thrid because juggling them was causing me to slow down the progressions on the trees I wanted.

My only major issue, and the reason this game got 4 instead of 5 stars, is that when you save and reload a game, previously cleared areas are populated with monsters again.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Flawed, but not a bad hack and slash, May 3, 2008

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K. De Marco (Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Mage Knight Apocalypse (CD-ROM)

The game's OK.

The Good

+ Lots of bad guys to kill and many ways to do it. If you like hack n' slash, there's plenty of it.
+ Lots of loot.
+ Potion crafting and item enhancement. You can harvest herbs, then make potions if you get enough bottles and have the stats for it. You can forge crystals and enhance gear in tons of combinations.
+ Gorgeous scenery. Lovely backgrounds.
+ Elaborate levelling. Characters have levels, which raise stats, and skills increase (level) through use, and new skills open up based on skill and stat status.
+ Choice of five characters that you can level. Some choice is better than none. At least both male and female characters were represented.
+ Death isn't permanent, and you can save at any time.
+ Levels respawn all but boss creatures. Good if you like killing things a few times or looking for that perfect gear. Bad if your game crashes after you've finished most, but not all of the level.
+ Teleport points allow you to return from one or two places in every area to the local store to shop, sell loot, and rest up. They also allow you to have a storage area available in every shop area to store those items your character hasn't quite levelled up enough to use.

The Bad

- Crash, boom, bah! The game seriously needed more testing. It froze up a few times randomly and ran slowly - on a quad core machine! The special attack that fires multiple arrows at a number of enemies at one time locks up the game fairly consistently after two or three shots in scenes with large numbers of NPCs.
- Graphics occasionally have issues. Although lovely most of the time, there are pathing issues, where your character is standing in another character, or a loot bag never goes away.
- Camera control stinks. The camera moves on its own at the worst times, yet requires the player to move it at other times isntead of following. This is a fairly common issue.
- Discarding objects destroys them forever. You can't see stats unless you pick up the item, so you might discard something good for crap.
- Potions require stats of a sufficient level. Has this world focused on childproof caps as the pinnacle of technology?
- Cut scenes always drop your character into the middle of a crowd of enemies, no matter how carefully you may have been sneaking up.

The Ugly

? Uneven fight difficulty. Fights should be challenging, not impossible. Instead, fights tend to be either easy or really difficult mob scenes where you plan on letting your character die a few times to eventually win.
? Female costumes. Female characters suffer Vallejo syndrome, where impossible physiology is barely covered by a little unlikely floss and a couple of decorative devices. The best gear for a non-epic Amazon is a skull with horns just barely covers her nipples? Really? One would expect, oh, something that covered vital organs at a minimum.
? The Plot. The main plot is a linear, extended fetch quest. There is 1 subplot the players can do anything about. However, all of the characters and places have a backstory, apparently from the card game it's based on, that the player can do nothing about. So you never get to uncurse the poor people in the cursed city, or help free more dwarves or anything.
? No dialogue options. That's just an aspect of the game style, but I would've preferred some interactivity.
? Unrealistic populations. The populations you see are wildly unbalanced. The Amazons have no men. The elves have no women. (If they'd given the Amazons pointed ears they could've avoided this). The dragons have no females (unless you count the mutant boss of one level, which looks like a fat, crazed hausfrau in a muumuu). The dwarves have a few women, but not enough for a viable population. No one has children.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A big dissappointment, October 26, 2006

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rpg lover (San Jose, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mage Knight Apocalypse (CD-ROM)

Here is the main point: the game has promising concepts but is poorly executed. The dialogue is mostly emotionally flat. The game was shipped with many bugs, including quiting when trying to finish the 5th major quest, the sound effects are so poorly done as to be annoying. There are balance issues as well, there is no happy median between parts which are too easy and others which are to hard. If they properly patch it and redo all the voice acting and sound effects and the many bugs, then it might be a decent game (in the 3 star range).