Dark Messiah in the Spotlight

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 24 Jul 2006, 20:39

<a href="/https://www.celestialheavens.com/dmomm/ ... .png"><img src="/https://www.celestialheavens.com/dmomm/ ... hot_sm.png" align=right vspace=10 hspace=10></a>Dark Messiah of Might and Magic was a star last week when Ubisoft allowed gaming publications to talk about the game. So after a few days, countless previews of the game were published on the Net, with most of the authors having very positive first impressions. Here is a quick and dirty summary:

<a href="/http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/darkm ... ameSpot</a> has a written and a video interview. We learn that the "crusade multiplayer mode is intended to be a prequel to Heroes V, a game in which the lands of the humans were invaded by undead marauders." <a href="/http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/might-and-magi ... GameSpy</a> describes it as a promising but currently unbalanced game. They say that "the priestess' forgiving play mechanics were designed to appeal to the not-so-hardcore." <a href="/http://www.jolt.co.uk/index.php?articleid=6640">Jolt</a> praises the fairly involved combat system, but notices many similarities to games such as Battlefield. <a href="/http://www.palgn.com.au/article.php?tit ... ">PALGN</a> is very enthusiastic: "Words can’t describe how enjoyable this game is, and just how good it looks in the flesh."

Last but not least, there's a very detailed description of the multiplayer classes at <a href="/http://gaming.hexus.net/content/item.ph ... ">HEXUS</a>, as well as two cool maps of Stonehelm and Broder Keep. If you can find your way around that site, there's the layout of a strategy guide over there. Highly recommended.

If you would like to take a look at the original page visit this link:
https://www.celestialheavens.com/1153773553

LordErtz · Unread postby **LordErtz** » 24 Jul 2006, 20:52

GameSpy describes it as a promising but currently unbalanced game

No further comment from me. I'll give them some time before I make judgement. This game I won't preorder like HOMM V to make sure everything is in order

maltz · Unread postby **maltz** » 24 Jul 2006, 21:29

I got a silly question. Is this Dark Messiah the one that we accidently accomplished along the campaign in HoMM5? :p

LordErtz · Unread postby **LordErtz** » 24 Jul 2006, 21:48

maltz wrote:I got a silly question. Is this Dark Messiah the one that we accidently accomplished along the campaign in HoMM5? :p

No, this apparently is the prequel to the story of HOMM V

Campaigner · Unread postby **Campaigner** » 24 Jul 2006, 22:24

Things look promising....Sounds good....But remember that Heroes V also sounded good and look what happened to it!!

maltz · Unread postby **maltz** » 24 Jul 2006, 22:40

Oh yeah that's right. That was DEMON messiah. Now how many messiahs are here?

VortexD · Unread postby **VortexD** » 24 Jul 2006, 23:30

I hope no more then two Messiah's because that would get confusing. They do seem to like those Orcs alot. In early screens and still now there were mostly orcs in it. An now they're even on the box!

Here's one from M&M2; Orc inventions, water proof sponges!
Edited on Mon, Jul 24 2006, 17:30 by VortexD

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 25 Jul 2006, 00:11

Clarification time: in Heroes V there is a Demon Sovereign, not a Messiah. And while the multiplayer Crusade Mode is a prequel to Heroes V, the single-player campaign takes place *after* the Heroes V campaigns.

LordErtz · Unread postby **LordErtz** » 25 Jul 2006, 00:12

Angelspit wrote:Clarification time: in Heroes V there is a Demon Sovereign, not a Messiah. And while the multiplayer Crusade Mode is a prequel to Heroes V, the single-player campaign takes place *after* the Heroes V campaigns.

Wow, they're doing a pretty good job at confusing the fans

Maybe we should play the multiplayer dark messiah, then heroes V, then the single player dark messiah lol. Well, if we can ever figure it out it'd be a cool story hopefully.

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 25 Jul 2006, 00:24

I'm sure there won't be much story in the Crusade Mode.

It's probably just a way to put the action into context.

VortexD · Unread postby **VortexD** » 25 Jul 2006, 14:00

Maybe they should also put the story into context. But since DM takes place in a whole different region of Ashan neither the story before or after is of large consequence, I think. We could just say they take place around the same time.

Ryder · Unread postby **Ryder** » 25 Jul 2006, 20:08

Has anyone downloaded the gameplay trailer from Strategy Informer? There's a link on the HEXUS review down the bottom of the gameplay impressions page. It's 20 meg and it's pretty good.

http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/dark ... /8343.html
Edited on Tue, Jul 25 2006, 14:09 by Ryder

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 25 Jul 2006, 20:12

Yes, that's the "choice" movie. It's simply awesome, especially the multiplayer battle scenes near the end. I should link to it from the Movies page.

HodgePodge · Unread postby **HodgePodge** » 25 Jul 2006, 20:50

maltz wrote:… Now how many messiahs are here?

One for every time Ubi can delude us into buying another game!

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 26 Jul 2006, 04:04

ouch HP .... a burned victim??

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 26 Jul 2006, 11:39

Campaigner wrote:Things look promising....Sounds good....But remember that Heroes V also sounded good and look what happened to it!!

That's just because you weren't listening hard enough.

LordErtz wrote:No, this apparently is the prequel to the story of HOMM V

No it isn't. It happens 20 years after HoMM5. Only the Crusade MP mode apparently happens before.

LordErtz · Unread postby **LordErtz** » 26 Jul 2006, 16:10

So they maybe it DOES have something to do with the demon messiah? No relation?

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 26 Jul 2006, 18:36

LordErtz wrote:So they maybe it DOES have something to do with the demon messiah? No relation?

We're not sure at this point.

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