Posted May 11, 2010
Enclave certainly is no masterpiece but a decent Hack&Slash game with a good atmosphere and quite good looking graphics despite it's age.
The game is split up into two campaigns, light and dark. They share most of the levels, but always have different objectives.
In each campaign you start as a certain character (Fighter in light, Rogue in dark) and meet more companions during the campaign. As soon as you have unlocked them, you are able to choose the character that fits your playstyle the most.
The game has small RPG-emelents. During each mission you can find a certain amount of valuables and you are also rewarded for completing missions. When you choose the character for your next assignment you are able to spend the gold on equipment. The gold you accumulated acts as a barrier, e.g. if you collected 750 Gold so far you can give your character equipment worth 750 gold. You don't really spend the money.
The equipment system isn't extremely deep but you regularly have to choose between using the best armor and the best weapon or if you will carry a long range weapon with you or not.
Combat itself mostly comes down to dodging or blocking enemy blows while hitting them in return. Enemies can move quite erratic sometimes, so hitting them is not that easy.
Another thing worth noting is, that the game supports most modern widescreen resolutions out of the box, so you don't have to search around in configuration files or use external tools to get it to work.
With two campaigns and the various playable characters the game offers quite a bit of replayability, so you will get your moneys worth. If you like 3rd person action games I wholeheartedly recommend buying Enclave.
The game is split up into two campaigns, light and dark. They share most of the levels, but always have different objectives.
In each campaign you start as a certain character (Fighter in light, Rogue in dark) and meet more companions during the campaign. As soon as you have unlocked them, you are able to choose the character that fits your playstyle the most.
The game has small RPG-emelents. During each mission you can find a certain amount of valuables and you are also rewarded for completing missions. When you choose the character for your next assignment you are able to spend the gold on equipment. The gold you accumulated acts as a barrier, e.g. if you collected 750 Gold so far you can give your character equipment worth 750 gold. You don't really spend the money.
The equipment system isn't extremely deep but you regularly have to choose between using the best armor and the best weapon or if you will carry a long range weapon with you or not.
Combat itself mostly comes down to dodging or blocking enemy blows while hitting them in return. Enemies can move quite erratic sometimes, so hitting them is not that easy.
Another thing worth noting is, that the game supports most modern widescreen resolutions out of the box, so you don't have to search around in configuration files or use external tools to get it to work.
With two campaigns and the various playable characters the game offers quite a bit of replayability, so you will get your moneys worth. If you like 3rd person action games I wholeheartedly recommend buying Enclave.