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38 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Loved the original, Love the expansion, March 9, 2007
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
I am a huge fan of Titan Quest and THQ, the company that makes it. I love the expansion, and I say that having not even played in the new location yet! They added to the game so many cool new features. This game already had huge replayability, and now it is even more so. Awesome enhancements include:
- New "Dream" specialty - it's great, I'm using it
- More inventory space...you can now collect sets of items and suit up for different battles
- You can share items between your characters - this adds HUGELY to replayability, as when adventuring as one character, you can pick up an item that your other character can use
- My character now leaves footprints in the snow. Fricking footprints.
- Drops are now way better, much easier to get the specialty items
- You can separate relics from items (it can be expensive though, as it should be)
- You now find "formulae", which is a formula to make a charm that goes in a new inventory slot. You have to find all the ingredients and then pay money to get it made.
- They added commas to your gold total, so you can read it now
- They added a pop up clock so you can see what time it is
I mention those last two enhancements because they show the company really listens and takes the time to put in the little touches. That and I've surprised myself how often I use the clock.
I realize this review sounds like I work for the company. I am just a big fan. I'm sorry to hear the other reviewer had problems with it crashing. I have played the expansion probably 7-10 hours so far, and have only frozen once...the expansion is brand new, though, I'm sure they'll iron out the kinks in an update. I have a Core 2 Duo, 2 gigs ram, and an ATI 1900XTX, and I play at 1280x1024 with everything maxed.
I hope THQ keeps making updates and new releases of this game!
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent expansion pack with tons of updates, March 7, 2007
Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
Being a fan of Diablo II, I naturally found Titan Quest to be a great game. Along the same lines, I find this expansion pack to be an par with the LoD expansion for Diablo II. Besides the extra "Act" in the game, there are tons of subtle and not so subtle changes and updates. The developers really seemed to listen to complaints about the original and addressed problems with things like inventory space and new items to spend gold on. The new Dream mastery seems to have skills to fit a melee or ranged character (the Summon Nightmare is fantastic) . I even liked the small addition of a real-time clock that you can mouse over to in order to prevent losing track of time and staying up all hours of the night trying to get to the next save fountain. All in all, I must say that I'm very pleased with this expansion and would recommend it to any fan of the original Titan Quest. The only complaints I can think of are that the extra act could have been a bit longer and it took quite a long time to complete the installation.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
THQ got it right :), May 28, 2007
Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
High praise for Titans Quest: Immortal Throne!
I've played many many PC games and know what features I wish games would have. Titan's Quest: Immortal Throne got them all right :)
Yes, there are still some minor dislikes and I'll mention those at the end.
Things I like:
- You are resurrected with all your gear when you die.
- Resurrection is never very far from your corpse.
- Full on loot? Throw down a teleport.
- side by side item comparison windows at every seller
- side by side item comparison of equipped items with inventory items
- Character window includes easy to understand critical stats
- instant swapping of weapon and left/right mouse key functions
- Nice balance of graphics and game play
- Graphics aren't ground breaking but do fit the game perfectly
- Excellent voice acting
- good dialog - if you take your time and enjoy it instead of rushing through the game :P .. it's the journey not the destination :0
Multi-Player specific:
- Superb multi-player game play
- ultra easy multi-player set-up over internet or lan - THAT WORKS!
- Teleport system easily keeps party connected
- side by side item comparison in trade windows
- Works flawlessly with Team Speak (high praise for Team Speak!)
- Any of your characters can play in multi-player and single player
Things you may not like...
- too easy at normal game level and you cant change to higher levels till you beat the game. Mowing down hordes with impunity is the norm.
- limited.. theme, can get monotonous. No matter your equipment layout or powerset, the sum of the game is kill everything, gather loot, power up, repeat. But that's not to say it isn't fun to see cool new powers, weapons and armor, new monsters, new towns, scenery, etc - which they did a fabulous job of designing.
Final Thoughts:
The 1st 5 minutes of game play my impression was.. eh, not bad. Not really impressed or blown away, nothing new here that hasn't been done to death by other games. But the more I played...
The more appreciation I had for the game. Very smartly done interface, good graphics, sound, voice acting and excellent game mechanics. There are SO MANY things they got right in this game I am just amazed. 30 minutes into the game I was still nodding my head in appreciation for all the little things I'd wished for in other games.
Couple weeks later and still having fun with it in single player and multi-player.
If you're going to play Titan's Quest, spring for the expansion "Immortal Throne". It improves on a whole lot of gameplay mechanics, adds the very cool Dream Mastery, and adds a enough additional content to make it a must have.
Fun game, glad I bought it!
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