- Create your own unique hero, customize his or her look and abilities, and travel fro Faydwer to battle the growing army of orcs.
- Play with up to three others through a multitap.
- Import other characters into the game, then play solo any time from any location.
- More than 100 hours of gameplay per character -- unlimited battles, deadly missions and unbeatable character customization.
- Go online & join an existing game, and host your own private games.
Product Description
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Enter furious hack-and-slash combat set in the world of
EverQuest! Choose from 5 different character races with hundreds
of spells and abilities at your disposal and over 10,000 items to
find. Random dungeon creation means you'll never play the same
game twice. Take your adventure online and experience the thrill
of multi-player adventure!
From the Manufacturer
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Published by the creators of EverQuest and developed by the team
behind Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, Champions of Norrath is an
Action RPG like none other on the PlayStation 2. Create your own
champion, each with unique powers, appearances and skills.
Experience an epic adventure filled with powerful action and
ominous intrigue. Battle vicious monsters where your mastery of
weaponry and spells is the only thing between you and supreme
evil.
Champions of Norrath allows gamers to create their own unique
hero to journey from the city of Faydwer into the wilds of
Norrath to save the land from a gathering army of evil orcs and
goblins. Players can adventure alone or with a band of up
to three other players either over the Internet or on a single
PlayStation 2 with a Multitap. Import player characters into
friends' games using a memory card and then take them home to
play solo-the play options offer console gamers the freedom to
play anytime and from any location. Champions of Norrath offers
players more than 100 hours of gameplay per player character,
unlimited battles, deadly missions and unmatched character
customization in an enthralling fantasy world.
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Review
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Sony Online Entertainment's newest console addition to the
EverQuest universe is impressive indeed. In fact, the a of
content Champions of Norrath offers is almost too much of a good
thing (if that's even possible).
Developed by Snowblind Studios, the company behind the original
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, Champions of Norrath offers up the
deepest dungeon crawling experience in the console universe to
date.
Champions' list of features reads like a perfect recipe for
success. There are five playable character classes each with a
wide variety of customization, including the ability to name your
own avatar. All the dungeons in the game, save the city hubs that
connect the whole world together, are randomly generated so that
each and every time you play the game the experience is
different. There are more than 10,000 randomly generated items in
the game, and players can even modify them to create their own
unique items. The list, as they say, goes on and on.
But perhaps the biggest and best piece of the Champions puzzle is
the fact that the game can be played online with friends. Using
the Network Adapter, PlayStation 2 gamers can take Champions
online to explore and level up their characters. In fact, the
game has three different difficulty settings so that you can play
it again with your leveled-up avatars.
This title can be played offline as well. In fact, you can insert
or remove your character from an adventure any time you want.
Play with three friends at Jimmy's house, and when his mom kicks
you out for being a deviant, you can download your character to a
memory card, and then continue playing with different players
online.
All told, Champions of Norrath is a very compelling dungeon
crawler. The ability to play online definitely makes it a
standout in the sea of recent releases in the genre. However, the
game isn't perfect. At times, it bogs down from the sheer a
of content it offers. Sometimes I felt like I almost had too many
items to wade through or too many pointless dungeons to clear.
These simple complaints aside, if you love leveling up and
searching for the latest and greatest weapon for your characters,
you really can't go wrong with Champions of Norrath. It's a solid
game that gets even better if you have the ability to go online
and set out on adventures with other players from around the
world.
Concept:
Use the EverQuest license to create an all-encompassing dungeon
crawler
Graphics:
The graphics and effects are top-notch in the genre
Sound:
Obviously done by someone who has watched The Lord Of The Rings
too many times (and that's a good thing)
Playability:
It's all about the hack n' slash, however the battles still
manage to be fairly challenging
Entertainment:
If you love dungeons and finding items, you can't go wrong here
Replay:
High
Rated: 8.75 out of 10
Editor: Andy McNamara
Issue: February 2004
2nd Opinion:
With four-player online play, and the original Dark Alliance
team fueling the development fires, you'd think that Champions of
Norrath would be an easy pick over Dark Alliance II. As it turns
out, both games excel in different ways and are equally
rewarding. Norrath's greatest strength is its ability to make
gamers come back for more. Both the online and single-player
components have legs. With random dungeon generation, three
difficulty settings (which require higher level characters), and
over 10,000 items, there's more than enough content here. While
both games play very similarly, Dark Alliance II edges out
Norrath with little additions along the lines of dual-wielding
and sprinting. Norrath is better suited for players who seek
extensive multiplayer, whereas Dark Alliance II is the perfect
fit for those who simply want a polished adventure to play
through once.
Rated: 8.5 out of 10
Editor: Andrew Reiner
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