Customer Reviews

Titan Quest

5 star:		(14)
4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

Titan Quest is extremely fun and addictive. It reminds me a lot of another game called Diablo. I loved playing Diablo in the past and no game has come out like Diablo until now. If you liked Diablo you'll definitely love Titan Quest.

Titan Quest follows Greek mythology. There are many different monsters and creatures that you fight through out the game. This game has a lot of replay value. The maps in the game are linear but the maps are also huge. There are a lot of caves and temple dwellings to explore just like there was in Diablo.

The graphics in this game are extremely beautiful. I can tell the game developer put a lot of love and attention into making this game. The amount of detail in the creatures and monsters alone is great. The game has got great looking skeletons, zombies, and spiders to fight against.

The game has a great zoom feature for zooming in and out of areas to look at. The only thing I miss seeing in the game is where you could rotate your main character around. I'm sure a future patch will eventually fix that.

You can choose to be a male or female character at the beginning of the game and you decide how you want to fight in the game. Do you want to use a sword? Or do you want to use magic? The choice is yours.

This is a fun game to play. I recommend getting this game.

It's an extremely addicting game which gets better and better the more you play. You can play at your own pace since it is single player or play online with a friend in a co-op mode where you can both use your mastery skills to overcome enemies. Don't worry about dedicating your life to the game in order to have fun like in World of Warcraft. There are tons of choices to make and combinations to choose from. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! ** And I normally don't play these types of games. I'm a First Person Shooter gamer typically. Try the demo first and you'll see!!

Titan quest is an over the head 3rd person hack and slash RPG that is really one of the first solid options since D2. This is not Diablo 3, it's not Diablo 2, or 2.5, or any other version....So why is the gameplay so similar? Diablo fans will notice a multitude of features and gameplay that scream "Diablo", but really, there aren't really any other ways of doing this kind of game right, you're bound to see the similarities.

Pros -
* Beautiful 3d engine _IF YOUR COMPUTER CAN HANDLE IT!_. Grass sways, immense amount of detail, but it looks fairly lackluster on slower machines, many non-gaming machines that are several years old won't really be able to handle it, take note of the min requirements.
* Long amount of gameplay, a friend and I have been at it quite a while and gotten through 1 chapter. (of I think a total of 3) Stack the upcoming expansion on, and you could have a game that takes you 50 hours just to get through on normal difficulty.
* Good enemies, solid gameplay. Overall it's just fun, if you like Diablo type games, and you're not expecting it to be exactly like Diablo, you'll enjoy this.
* Decent sound and music, not fantastic but I liked it enough to keep it on.
* Fun multiplayer, play with friends, it gets harder with more people, making things more challenging etc.
* It's cheap! Around $20 now, worth the investment if you like this type of game for sure.
* Different melee/caster trees allows excellent "pure" combinations i.e. caster/caster or melee/melee, but also makes for some interesting hybrid classes.

Cons-
* Lack of support/info. This game I think was fairly successful, but not like I'm used to, so there isn't an abundance of support or item databases etc.
* Fairly steep computer requirements.
* No character customization! You get to pick male or female, that's it. No features, sizes, nada.
* Quests are boring, not that I expected them to be otherwise.
* Odd graphical glitches if you turn the settings all the way down on certain video cards, honestly not too big of a deal.
* I haven't beaten the game yet, fairly low level (23) so I haven't seen all there is too offer, but the gameplay seems almost too simplistic. Bind a main attack spell/skill and use it forever... Cast support/heal spells occasionally.

Bottom line -
Titan Quest is a solid purchase for people who enjoy hack and slash rpgs, collecting cool gear, and learning a little mythology in the process ;). Worth the low price tag, and it will enjoy added content/replayability, not to mention a bigger online playerbase, when the expansion comes out first week of March, 2007.
3.5 Stars.

Like others have said, the best way to review a game like this is to compare it to Diablo II. So here we go...

-Graphics in TQ far surpass Diablo II. They are simply amazing. Be warned though, I have a GeForce 7800 and still see some slowdown in areas.

-Physics...When you walk though tall grass or reeds they ripple as you pass. You leave a wake when you walk through water. If you kill something on a hill thier items will roll down the hill. Dead monsters react like "ragdolls" and never land in the same pose twice, they aften end up slumped over part of the landscape. All this, combined with the great graphics makes for a great experience.

-Character Classes work a bit differenlty than in Diablo II. In TQ you start off simply choosing your gender. Once you hit level 2 you select one of eight masteries, at level 8 you choose another if you want. This allows for quite a few combinations. So far it's proved to be a good system, we'll see how balanced it is at the higher levels.

-Monster loot works nearly the same as Diablo II. You have items ranging from broken to legendary. You also have set items, relics and charms. All of which are color coded so you know it's rarity at a glance. One big difference is that in TQ if you see a monster wearing armor or wielding a huge magic weapon, you will see that armor and huge magic weapon drop to the ground as loot when the creature dies. Most of it is broken or worn but it's still pretty cool that the monster is using the magical items he drops.

-They've simplified things in TQ a little over Diablo, for better or worse. Items don't need to be repaired in TQ, they never wear out. You don't have to identify magic items, they are known as soon as you pick them up. Everyone has the ability to open a portal to town at any time, so town portal scolls are not needed. They basically got rid of the annoying little money sinks.

-TQ includes an editor for creating custom maps. This could extend the life of the game considerably if it gets garners a good following.

Now, the caveots...

-The music isn't as good in TQ. The music in Diablo II really set the mood, you just don't have that in TQ.

-No secure servers for multiplayer games. Without this, there's no way to know if a character and his items were all obtained honestly.

-There are a few bugs in TQ. The biggest being with multiplayer, it's basically unplayable. They are promising to fix it but until then TQ is really a single player game. No gaming company out there QAs thier games like Blizzard, so invariably you have to wait for a couple patches to come out before you can truely trust the stability. Sad but true.


All in all i'm really enjoying Titan Quest. I look forward to coming home from work and playing every day. What more can you ask for?

Sure this is what Diablo3 would have looked like - but this cannot be a bad thing!

Quite realistic graphics achieved even on medium range PCs (a 3year old machine with only the video card upgraded to a 7600GT can run it with everything on HIGH). I particularly liked that you can see the exact armor and weapons on your opponents and, after you killed them, everything drops for looting.

I am a great fun of D&D RPGs. In Titan Quest there is no deep background - except lots of excellent Mythology, CORRECTLY told for once. There is no "official 20-sided dice" getting thrown somewhere in the background - do you really care? Hack, slash, zap, burn and destroy. Loot, sell and buy. Repeat as needed.

You will surely enjoy it! GREAT FUN!!!

Great, simple, hack and slash in the same vein as Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction. I bought a couple copies for me and my boys and we had a great time finishing the Easy campaign (it makes you play the easy level first. No choice.)in about a week. The kids got bored and now I am playing through the middle difficulty solo.

It's great mindless, power up, Level up, gaming. Well worth the [...] I paid for it.

Excellent game. The developers have included all the wished for features missing in many other games of this genre.

If you are going to get Titans Quest, do yourself the pleasure of getting the expansion "Titans Quest: Immortal Throne".

For a better review of this game please see my posting for Immortal Throne - DVD version.

THIS GAME IS ONE YOU CANNOT STOP PLAYING. GREAT GRAPHICS INTENSE GAME PLAY REPLAYABILITY, IN MY OPINION IF YOU ARE A ROLE PLAYING GAMER THIS OUTDOES WOW.

before i say this game is b e a uuuuuu tiful i must tell u that if ur comp is anything below the latest gaming model...forget ever playing this game for now!! the requirements are extremely steep. HOWEVER...if u have a rockin' PC with enough space...ur in for an insane hack and slash time! the graphics are beautiful and the skill optinos allow u to use UR strategy! the best part is...u dont have to always walk everywhere once u get to a town and walk near a portal...u can use ur personal portal stone to return u to that town at any time! it beats walking. But i must admit that the whole map icons system takes out ALOT of the challenge in mishs! Ironlore...keep bringing these beauties to the shelves! IF U DONT BUY THIS GAME u either dont have a good pc or have no taste in games whatsoever!

Some call it a Diablo clone..i am ok with that. The game is highly addictive and fun...tons of content and things to do.
It is a bit hard on older pc`s but i can live with it.

I am a FPS fan and i really hated RPG games because it was always about building tons of soldiers, gather resources and throw them at the ennemy and do that scenario until game over.And i was never playing RPG`S because of that because i got bored fast of that type of game.

I have finally found a game that is different and i love it!!!!

Buy it!!!!

Peace