In execution, champions close to defeat are often running around the arena in their skivvies, which adds a bit to levity to Clan of Champions otherwise serviceable, if unremarkable battles. Both the players’ and opponents gear act as tenuous defensive buffers- meaning that too many strikes to the cranium will knock a helmet right off. Combatants choose from three different attack zones: head, torso, and legs with strings of strikes to one area delivering devastating, equipment-breaking combos. Missions are largely homogeneous, each pitting the player and two AI opponents against a slew of enemies which enter from each stage’s alcoves. Once a champion is formulated and an optional tutorial is completed, players step into the gladiatorial area for both glory as well as the chance to acquire low-cost equipment. Pleasingly, gamers aren’t locked into a set combat style and are allowed to explore the game’s fighting forms. Each combat form has its own set of skills available to players once they gain combat experience, even allowing a bit of fireball hurling amidst the otherwise melee-based proceedings. Additionally, players determine which of the three fighting styles their character will use, with options for close combat, dual wielding, as well as the requisite sword and shield approach. However, within minutes any plotline posturing is deserted, as the game settles into its two core mechanics: combat and loot management.Īfter choosing a race from one of the game’s three selections – elf, orc or human, players mold their avatar from a small section of presets and distribute supplemental stat points into four areas. Here, the Kingdom of Ematrias in stark opposition to the Al-waav Urban Allied Forces, with the standoff bringing mercenaries from both factions into battle in a unpopulated city. Salvatore penning the next Call of Duty plotline. Before those things happen, players are offered a text-based backstory which suggests R.A. One moment you’re urgently scanning the environment for a defensive implement and the in the next you’re dual-wielding helmets to bludgeon an orc into senselessness.
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After reluctantly dispatching an opponent, the protagonist offers the movie’s most memorable query, asking the bloodthirsty crowd of spectators, “Are you not entertained?” For PC gamers who pick up the recent release of Clan of Champions, developer Acquire’s ( Tenchu: Stealth Assassins, Class of Heroes) arena-based hack and slash, the response to Maximus’ question is most likely going to be a tepid, “sort of”.ĭrawing inspiration from Ridley Scott’s epic as well as the intermittent madcap moment of Acquire’s own Way of the Samurai series, Champions straddles the gap between sincere and silly. In the 2000 film Gladiator, condemned General Maximus Meridius is stripped of his rank and forced into hand-to-hand battle in the Roman coliseum.
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