Torchlight - Abit like Diablo

Heya everyone.

(Please note that this is my first ever review of a game! Actually my first review of anything at all!
so please let me know what you think about it, and what i could do better!)

Recently (yesterday >_<) i began playing a game called Torchlight.
It reminds me a whole lot about Diablo II, and it got a load of similar features, you could
call it a "Diablo Clone" i guess. Most "Cloned" games usually suck, like all thoes F2P(Free to play) MMO's thats out there, they got bad graphics, weird controls, not the best content, and are mostly just a really bad "clones".

But with Torchlight this is not the case. The game is actually really entertaining so far!

Pros:

-Randomly generated levels, no more walking through the same area over and over and over.. Its all random! WIN!

-It got a nice and easy understandable UI (User Interface)

-It got "Cartoonish" graphics like WoW does, and i like that.

-The sounds is usually really good, except for speech, i would like to have it fully voiced.

-Its easy to begin playing, the controls is good, and it mostly feels like it should.

-You can sell items from anywhere(a few exceptions). You got a dog/cat/other pet which got a backpack too. You can give your leftover items to the pet, and send it to the town to sell all the items! (There is a "delay" on this, it will take X seconds/minutes for the pet to sell the items, depending on where you are in the game.

Cons:

-Limited number of skills. So far i have only played one character, the "Destroyer", but i dont find too many useful skills that i can choose between. But its still good!

-You can enchant ALL your equipment by simply talking to a NPC in the town, he will do this for an amount of gold depending on the item level and previous enchantments. This feature is unbalanced in my opinion. You can enchant the same items as many times as you want to, each with a slight increasing chance to disenchant the item. This makes it possible to make extremely powerful weapons and other gear. An example here: I used around 5k gold to enchant an item, after a few enchants it went from 200DPS to 370 DPS. That is nearly 2x its previous power for some useless gold :/ (DPS is also known as Damage Per Second)


I would give this game a overall of 8/10

Here is a gameplay clip from the game that i made.
Its recorded with overwolf, so the graphics isnt the best in the video (Was too lazy to setup Fraps o.o)



Price:
14.99€ on Steam
3,74€ for the next 24 hours (Ends around 23th december at midnight)


PC System Requirements

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  • OS: Windows XP or later
    
  • Processor: x86-compatible 800MHz processor
    
  • Memory: 512MB
    
  • Graphics: DirectX-compatible 3D graphics with at least 64MB of addressable memory (such as an ATI Radeon 7200, NVIDIA GeForce 2, or Intel GMA 950)
    
  • DirectX®: 9.0c
    
  • Hard Drive: 400MB
• Mac System Requirements
  
  Minimum:
  
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    • OS: OS X version Leopard 10.5.8, Snow Leopard 10.6.3, or later
      
    • Processor: Intel Mac
      
    • Memory: 1GB RAM
      
    • Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible video card with 256MB dedicated RAM (ATI Radeon X1600 or nVidia equivalent)
      
    • Hard Drive: 800MB

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Overwolf did a great job Nice review!

Jamie, on 22 December 2011 - 08:34 PM, said:

Thanks alot ;D Overwolf is pretty good yea, but i would have been able to get it Full HD 1080P with Fraps ;D
Also the audio seems to get a little out of sync with the video :/ Damn upload did that..

Hey Qu, great first review. Its got everything a review has except for the price of the game so you might want to add that Oh and also what platforms can this game run on also.

petersmileyface, on 22 December 2011 - 09:23 PM, said:

Added it all ;D Including System Requirements:D

Nice review, very thorough an detailed.
Has everything you need to know to start playing

Well done +1

Wavesludge, on 23 December 2011 - 12:50 AM, said:

Thanks

Very nice first review Qudubz! +rep

lttf, on 23 December 2011 - 10:15 AM, said:

Thanks