Chaos Chronicles Preview

Germany-based website Gamers.de is offering up a seven-page, hands-off preview of bitComposer and Coreplay’s ambitious RPG Chaos Chronicles, and while the entire article is in German, we do have Google Translate to thank for a relatively readable English version. A snippet:

On the journey to our squad must fight through about an old castle ruins, which since the demise of the original inhabitants, the lifetime of the Schleicher fell victim to greed, recently inhabited by hordes of the undead. Many traces of the past can be found in this castle, and are usually in text overlays – there will be no voice – played, the closer to the fate of the former lords of the curious reader. Projected so before the eyes of the player, the story of a crime of greed followed by a murder out of love. Producer Michael Hoss calls this a classic Romeo and Juliet story. The text displays will be for the gameplay way optional nature and are used in particular as a tool of the atmosphere. One thinks here for comparison to the tragic saga of Durlag troll slayer and his family from the first “Baldur’s Gate”, with each floor revealed new insights into the grim fate of the dwarf clans.

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While we’re on the surface, we will remain the same there! The upper world of Eshnur consists of different geographical areas, so there is on the abstract-held world map (like “Fallout 1 & 2”), the proficient our game as small bitmaps, with a fiery desert region to admire but also marshy landscapes, each boast suitable opponent types. Dick Furry Orcs in the desert will not be so found.

While crossing the map, this will probably be possible by horse, there may be random events associated partly with quests. This will not be fought in the desert on a city screen, there will be, depending on the zone Entcounter own maps.

Finally, our group achieved after hard fighting, because “Chaos Chronicles” is a challenging role play – including death of your party – be exhausted the next settlement.

Towns and settlements are presented in “Chaos Chronicles” as a statistics window. In addition to a brief description of the place and the environment, can be found here up to eight local organizations, with which you can interact. For example, a stamp that allows you for a proper sum reviving your fallen friends, it can also fail! Among the standard features of a town near the temple are also dungeon entrances, a guild hall to recruit new members section and also a tavern. Some towns also have special institutions, such as a witch who can predict the future of the group.