Foes appear in a predictable fashion, and while the various spells provide some diversity to how you cut through the swarms, each encounter feels more or less like the last.
The overwhelming CryEngine-powered beauty is not enough to stave off creeping repetition, however. The experience is gorgeous, though taxing to your PC, and it's hard not to appreciate the heavily detailed stone temples and splintered ice floes. During battle, the air is awash with magic as you strafe about, avoiding oncoming spells and slinging icy projectiles.
You can flip between these three schools at will, using the mind-control spells of the delirium sigil to gain helpful assists before wading into a mob and burning your opponents to a crisp. You equip three different schools of magic at a time, each of which has three basic types of actions: a targeted spell, an area-of-effect attack, and a shield that allows you to counter offensive moves as well as to mitigate damage. You start with only fire and ice at your disposal, though your options grow as you progress through the two sizable levels Lichdom currently offers. It's a fun and engaging system of dodges, blocks, and attacks that flow smoothly from one move to the next. An autotargeting system may seem an odd thing to praise, but Lichdom's homing assists let me show off my impressive wizardry even when my opponents and I are constantly on the move. I heave bursts of purple energy into skeletons, making them autonomous pets that assist me in battle. Corrupted magical flakes billow forth from my fingers and infect my attackers with bugs that spawn when their host perishes. I enjoy Lichdom's magical combat so much, in fact, that I suspect it will spoil other games' spellcasting for me, so fluid does it feel. I march through ruins overgrown with ivy and rush down snowy paths dotted with evergreens, controlling the elements as if I were a demigod.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's Never has magic felt as powerful as it does in Lichdom, where it is free from the shackles of mana bars and long cooldowns.
What matters is that I can summon ice and fire to my palms and fling them at scowling demonic warriors. The cutscenes recently added to this unfinished game are gorgeous and dramatic, and the new voice-overs are delivered with conviction, but I am not sure where I am and why I'm there. I admit I have very little idea of what's going on in Lichdom: Battlemage. The review below critiques a work in progress, and represents a snapshot of the game at the time of the review's publication. While the games in question are not considered finished by their creators, you may still devote money, time, and bandwidth for the privilege of playing them before they are complete. GameSpot's early access reviews evaluate unfinished games that are nonetheless available for purchase by the public.
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