Deck 13’s newest motion RPG Atlas Fallen throws you right into a world of a ruined empire amidst solar soaked sand, of blindly religious individuals worshipping a corrupt god, classicism, slavery and loads of monsters roaming the wild.
Years after an extended conflict and a short-lived insurrection decimated the as soon as stunning world of Atlas, you tackle the position of an Unnamed, one stripped of all the things together with a reputation and whose job it’s to do no matter you’re informed. You’re nothing greater than a slave with no rights, working to serve the Queen and the corrupt Solar god Thelos. Thelos has enslaved and blinded humanity, demanding a tribute of a substance referred to as Essence – the lifeblood of the planet – as a present of devotion. The mining of Essence is slowly stripping the world of life, abandoning huge oceans of sand and lifeless deserts.
In a bid to get your individuals extra rights, you might be thrust right into a battle between Thelos and one other god, Nyaal, who has been stripped from historical past. As the one one able to wielding Nyaal’s energy via an historic gauntlet, you don’t have any alternative however to convey down the Queen and Thelos earlier than it’s too late.
Set throughout 4 giant areas, Atlas Fallen embraces the open world style and all of its trappings. There are aspect quests to interact in, collectibles to search out, areas to find and hidden lore shedding mild on the world and its inhabitants. The sport doesn’t do something completely different with the standard open world guidelines of actions. As a substitute it chooses to spend money on a enjoyable and pretty ingenious fight and motion system that makes navigating the big world and exploring oodles of enjoyable.
Courtesy of Nyaal’s gauntlet, which supplies you management over sand powers, you achieve the flexibility to double soar, air sprint and, most significantly, surf the sandy dunes. Sand browsing is as cool because it seems, letting you zip throughout the panorama shortly, leaving trails of sand in your wake. Combining your transfer set with sand browsing enables you to discover the surprisingly vertical surroundings with ease and elegance.
And that surroundings is completely gorgeous. Deck 13 have managed to make the sandy wastes look completely gorgeous with environments that tower in scale, flipping between sun-blasted ruins, wild outposts of life, historic citadels and chasms galore. Coupled with the photograph mode, Atlas Fallen has loads of screenshot worthy moments as a lot of the environments look as if the idea artwork was translated 100% faithfully into 3D.
Much less profitable are the character fashions and animation which take a look at least a technology behind the gorgeous surroundings design, replete with animations that don’t at all times sync totally with the voice traces. It’s a small blemish on what’s, in any other case, a visually gorgeous sport.
Fight is the opposite a part of Atlas Fallen’s magic trick. It’s enjoyable, fluid and difficult all on the similar time, that includes gorgeous animations and a system that requires you to mess around with its many choices to search out your finest play model. Whilst you solely have three weapons, your potential record of passive and energetic abilities, together with the Momentum meter, decide how efficient you can be in fight. You’ll be able to swop talents out and in as you please, when you’ve crafted them and unlocked additional sections of the Momentum metre.
As you assault with out taking harm, the Momentum meter grows, enhancing your assault energy, and the dimensions of your weapons, whereas dropping protection. The meter is damaged up into three gauges, with every gauge activating the skills you’ve positioned in that part of the meter. As soon as the meter is full sufficient, you’ll have entry to an AOE tremendous that freezes the enemies in its radius whereas doling out huge harm. For those who use it although, it makes use of up your whole momentum.
There’s a danger/reward standing then. Do you employ your shatter assault or maintain onto the momentum to maintain you smaller talents in play?
Pulling from their earlier sport, The Surge, enemies have a number of physique components which you could goal and break off. Whereas it doesn’t reward you with particular gadgets, it provides to the complexity of fight as this too brings a heavy ingredient of hazard to the fights. When you break an enemy’s physique half, they develop into enraged and their harm output will increase. Nevertheless it’s a necessity to do if you wish to defeat the bigger enemies and managers.
There’s an enormous ingredient of air fight in Atlas Fallen as properly due to the airborne enemies and the way giant some bosses are. For those who play your playing cards proper, together with enhancing your sprint, you possibly can virtually fly all through complete encounters as you sprint between enemies.
Fight has one caveat in that the digicam generally struggles to maintain up with what’s happening onscreen as the sport tends to throw a number of enemy varieties at you without delay. And enemies are very aggressive and difficult even on medium problem. And generally the lock-on doesn’t at all times goal the creature you need, particularly when the bigger, screen-filling enemies are blocking your view.
Your talents can be upgraded, courtesy of the gadgets you’ll scavenge within the wilds, whether or not it’s ore or crops, they’ve their use. Fortunately, I by no means wanted to grind to realize the gadgets I wanted. Regular play threw sufficient of them at me to ensure I by no means felt in need when a brand new potential I needed to jack up got here my method.
Character levelling isn’t dealt with within the conventional method both, which I loved. Finishing quests and defeating enemies offers you Essence to make use of. And you employ that to improve the assorted armours you’ll decide up. Every set of armour may be upgraded 3 times, which accounts for all you stats and your character degree. I discovered it to be a extra fascinating and easy system than the standard RPG levelling methodology.
Atlas Fallen takes its story very critically as properly. Whereas I didn’t discover the writing or vocal performances to be as robust as I’d hoped, I nonetheless discovered the story partaking and entertaining even when it was much less of a hook than the fight. Whereas I want there have been greater than passive screens of you watching a dialog or sometimes making a alternative, I nonetheless loved the story that Atlas Fallen was telling.
Atlas Fallen might not function the strongest or most unique story, however it does make up for that with stunning, spectacular visuals, an exquisite sense of exploration that holds a bit of little bit of a Darksiders really feel to it, and a few gorgeous and difficult fight that may preserve you in your toes. These sands are undoubtedly price browsing.
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