Elveon Preview

ComputerAndVideoGames.com is offering up a quick preview of Elveon, 10tacle Studios’ upcoming fantasy-themed action RPG for both the PC and Xbox 360.

Dark Messiah had a brave stab at first-person melee fighting, but it could be frustrating when you felt like your well-placed blows were going unfairly astray. Elveon – in the third-person – promises to be potentially frustrating in a different way; that your moves are blocked by a visible demonstration of your opponent’s skill. And then they hit you back, because they’re better than you are.

With Elveon, your weapon doesn’t hit a vague sphere, it hits their weapon – or better still, their face. So the main difference is that it should become less frustrating the better you get. However, we’ll only find out if that’s true when we get a chance to get better at it. Fantasy devotees can relax; it’s deadly earnest. If any of you have learned enough Klingon to get by on an away-break to the home-planet, you’ll be pleased to know the entire game is voiced in Elvish, with subtitles, so you get all the smug pleasure of feeling like you’re watching something sophisticated and foreign, without the burning resentment that someone out there is probably enjoying the dialogue more than you are. Ingenious, really.