14 DAY TRIAL // What we know:
Might & Magic X : Legacy is a classical single-player role-playing game made by Limbic Entertainment, a studio that has been working closely with Ubisoft for the last four years.
The game went through an open development phase at the end of last year, offering early access to all players who pre-ordered the deluxe edition of MMX:Legacy, the developers paying close attention to community feedback in order to deliver a worthy successor to the long-lasting series.
Might & Magic X: Legacy will have players lead a party of adventurers around the Agyn Peninsula in the world of Ashan. The adventurers will become entangled in the political machinations unfolding in the city of Karthal, on the verge of secession from the Holy Empire.
The game will offer 4 races, each one benefiting from a magic class, a might class and a hybrid one for a total of 12 options. The game will use a grid map and will feature turn-based combat, similar to the system used in the early days of the series.
In the traditional manner of the Might&Magic series, it will feature a large unexplored environment and numerous dungeons to explore and fight through, laden with traps and puzzles to decipher.
Why it matters:
The Might & Magic series has been on hold for more than 10 years, and this year’s title will certainly be an interesting one to follow.
Classical role-playing games fans don’t have very many options nowadays, most games developed usually being MMOs that follow a pretty strict formula.
Almost all of them offer the same kind of gameplay experience and limited single-player enjoyment, and even the single-player titles have an emphasis on action and sometimes twitchy combat that drive off fans of old-school titles.
Might & Magic X: Legacy’s single-player focus will offer disheartened fans of the genre an outlet, and will hopefully show some sort of evolution over its predecessors, showing that single-player role-playing games are not stuck in time and that the classical gameplay experience can be up to par with the modern one offered by Skyrim and Fallout 3.
The game is scheduled to launch on January 23 for the PC.
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