with the patches... its not bad
User Rating: 8.3 | Mage Knight: Apocalypse PC
I didn't get the game until after the patches came out and the price dropped to twenty dollars so I don't knwo what it would have been like before hand, but with the new improvements which I would assume made the game much less buggy from what I have read the game is actually quite fun. I have just beaten the draconum part of the game and am nearly finished i think, and tushfar the storyline though it could use improvements is quite good. The beginning of the game is more or less... annoying, as the attack on the dwarf city forced me too resurrect myself and return o the same location dozens of times. However it seemed that as you leveled up the monsters didn't. I know that as a vampiress as soon as I got blood siphon my death count dropped severely and at th point that I am now except for a few main bosses I haven't died at all. The new patch supposedly increased the difficulty and made the AI more intelligent, however I go through the entire dungeon up til the final boss and leave my guys behind without any issues whatsoever. Perhaps as the game progresses it will become harder. The death system is a rather large pain as you go all the way back to your last savepoint and basically have to walk through mazes to return to where you were before. The graphics are iffy not great but Id on't find them distracting. I do enjoy how they converted the table top figures of mageknight so well into every part of the story. The combat system is very enjoyable in my opinion, people complain about the camera but I have never really had a problem with it. I simply switched the camera rotating button to spacebar and it seemed fairly ez after that. The new chase mode however is extremely annoying as the a and d buttons don't turn your char. rather they cause him to move horizontally so when using the chase mode I became kind of motion sick. Overall I am finding the game quite enjoyable however. I've played both single and multiplayer and both seem to work just fine. The story is good enough that it has kept me going without complaint andthe wide variety of monsters prevent the game from feeling repetitive
