There is some competition in the form of different battle statistics constantly being calculated until the end of a dungeon. Gold is shared equally amongst teammates, while items are up for grabs. Local co-op works just fine, with support for up to four players. Multiplayer is also another feature added for Alliance, both offline and over the PSN. There are a lot of gestures to remember as well, which will be a hinderance to you if you don’t play the game for a few weeks. It’s a novelty at best, and doesn’t really add much to the experience. Flicking your wrist can do all sorts of different actions, and often they may be accidentally interpreted if you have the “shake” setting turned on. The game controls just fine with the DualShock, and in this case the Move wand is seemingly too sensitive for this game. It’s here, and feels kind of out of place. The framerate is fairly consistent, with only a few dips or stuttering in outside environments.ĭungeon Hunter: Alliance‘s claim to fame is PlayStation Move support. Animations are pretty limited, and lighting is sufficient but only that. It never really gets terrible to look at, it just doesn’t impress. Some of the background objects look slightly better than that, but given that this franchise started life on mobile phones this isn’t much of a surprise. Graphically, Alliance looks like an upscaled PlayStation 2 port or remake. There are some side quests as well, but these mostly serve to get you to go back and replay old dungeons. The main campaign is quite lengthy, easily 10-15 or so hours playing at a modest pace. Still, for fans of this genre there are is a lot of game for your money. The only thing you can do with items is sell or transmute them for gold, both for a minuscule fraction of the item’s street price. You cannot craft your own items whatsoever – what you see is what you get, forever. A color coding scheme helps you quickly identify which of your items have augmented statistics, such as +40HP or extra magic damage. Everything is presented in basic stereo, though with a game such as an isometric dungeon crawler it may not be beneficial to have the audio presented in surround sound anyway.Īs for the RPG portion of Dungeon Hunter: Alliance, it will likely please fans of the genre but there is nothing out of the ordinary here. Custom soundtracks are not supported, which is a shame because the music can get repetitive at times. Sound effects are passable, and at least the background music ramps up nicely whenever you are in combat. Nothing’s wrong with the story, there’s just not much outstanding about it either.Īudio is pretty generic as well. The story does have a funny moment or two every now and again, but overall it’s your usual RPG fair – something’s going on in a village, you must kill a boss to free the people, etc. In fact, the only voices you will hear throughout the game are those of citizens in a village, who sometimes give some nonsensical phrase occasionally delivered rather flatly. Sure, this is a PSN game we are talking about here, but the text doesn’t even make any noise when printing out onto the screen. A story which is text only, and not voiced whatsoever. So, once you pick a character you are thrust into the story. Whatever the case, it is a disappointment that this RPG does not offer any character customization. It may also have been a way to save some development costs by only having to animate/create three character models instead of six. ![]() This is necessary to have the story make sense, where you are a king who is brought back from the dead by a fairy in order to fight a possessed queen. Picking the Mage, Rogue or Warrior simply determines your starting stats, and you cannot choose gender – they are all male. It’s probably a bit kooky.The game boots up with a rather generic-looking group of three characters, which seems okay until you realize that upon starting the campaign those are the only three characters that you can choose from. Using the Vita’s twin sticks to move and look around the battlefield, you must use tactics and strategy to win battles from afar. Parked somewhere between the Overlord series and a twisted version of Nintendo’s Pikmin, Army Corps sees you as the big baddie and has lots of goblins at your command. However, Square Enix have made the effort, and so it’s worth taking a look – especially if you’re a fan of Japanese heavy metal. ![]() It’s cheesy, with lots of heavy metal thrown in.Īrmy Corps Of Hell is a port of the PSP version with the same name, and it’s one of those games that we didn’t honestly think would make a UK launch. Compared to the PS3 version this Vita game seems vastly overpriced, something that Peter addressed in his blog about the issue (see link above) – we’ll have a full review soon. For everyone else, this action RPG (role playing game) isn’t particularly deep but offers a decent enough game, the only issue really being the price.
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