

There were also orange items which are charms and relic shards. Item quality ranges from white to yellow, green, blue and then purple were Legendary items. Though after 20 levels I had racked up 1.5million gold and there was hardly anything worth buying except for bank space upgrades. I will loot absolutely everything, so I can sell it for gold and look for upgrades. I am not ashamed to admit that I’m a loot whore. The inventory system used the grid-based system which suffered from space issues and I constantly had to do a ‘bank run’ where I would teleport back to town, sell the junk, look for upgrades to equip, bank anything that was too high level, and then teleport back to the action. The aim was not to lock you into specific classes from the outset but give you some flexibility to build the character to your playstyle, and this was something that stepped Titan Quest above the rest at the time.

There are 36 master combinations available in the base game which include pure disciplines within one Mastery and hybrids between different Masteries. Each mastery has skills you can unlock and add points to increase the proficiency of those skills. There are also magical Masteries such as Nature, Storm, Earth and Spirit. You can choose a primary mastery and secondary mastery, consisting of standard combat choices such as Warfare, Defence, Hunting and Rogue. It’s not until you gain enough experience for your first level up that you open the Mastery system and commence the skill customisation of your character. There was no class selection, so armed with a simple sword, you begin your quest at the village of Helos. The music and environmental sounds were matched to the locations you were in at the time and the style of monsters fit the Greek, Egyptian and Asian influences as you moved through the story.Ĭharacter creation consisted of simply entering a name, gender and a choice of 5 tunic colours, and that’s it. You fight your way through Greece, Egypt along the Silk Road to China trying to defeat the three Telkines and restoring peace to the lands. A trio of lesser Titans known as Telkines broke the communication conduit linking Olympus with the mortal world, and summoned armies of monsters to terrorize the world and prepare for the release of the Titans. Titans once ruled the world in darkness, until the Light of Olympian Gods, after the Great War, exiled the Titans.
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Rather than a movie telling the story through the main character, Titan Quest told its story through the side characters, NPC’s in each of the towns giving side quests along with the main story quest. Together they envisioned Titan Quest set in Ancient Greece, like 2002’s Age of Mythology theme. Iron Lore Entertainment had huge personnel assets in Brian Sullivan, who developed the highly successful Age of Empires games, and Randall Wallace, who wrote the screenplay for the movies Braveheart and Pearl Harbor. That was until Titan Quest came along and gave it a good run for its money.

Whilst great games, Diablo II still stood out as king of these times, especially when coupled with the Lord of Destruction expansion. Games such as Divine Divinity and Dungeon Siege in 2002, Sacred and Beyond Divinity in 2004 and Dungeon Siege II in 2005, really set the tone of the hack-and-slash action RPG genre. Titan Quest was released after a slew of games were penned ‘Diablo-clones’ and ‘grandfather arpgs’ after Diablo II released in 2000 (and thankfully the Y2K bug didn’t affect our gaming!). The game was ported to Xbox and Playstation in March 2018, and Titan Quest will grace the screens of the Nintendo Switch this year! An Anniversary Edition of the game was released in 2016, followed by a brand new expansion, Ragnarok in 2017. It was then released on Steam in 2007 shortly after the Immortal Throne expansion had launched earlier that year. Titan Quest is an action RPG developed by Iron Lore Entertainment and published by THQ in 2006 for PC. “The aim was not to lock you into specific classes but give you some flexibility to build the character to your playstyle, and this was something that stepped Titan Quest above the rest at the time.” Score: 7/10 | ACTION RPG | VIOLENCE | MILD THEMES
