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Titan Quest is a PC action role-playing game developed by Iron Lore Entertainment. It was released worldwide by THQ on June 26, 2006.
Players take the role of a hero and fight monsters in three ancient, mythological world settings including Sparta/Greece, Egypt and Silk Road/Asia. The game was conceived by Age of Empires co-creator Brian Sullivan and features rag-doll physics, full lighting effects, day-night cycles, ancient world mythology, modern 3D graphics, unique treasures, fast gameplay, and a world editor for players to rapidly create their own custom worlds, mods, and quests.
The game has a loot system where monsters can only drop items that they were using. After the player kills the monster the player can pick up the monster's items. The exception to this rule are rings, charms (which are invisible on the creature) and monster charms (which are a part of it, e.g. Raptor teeth and Turtle shells).
Fans of RPG may feel that Titan Quest bears a some what nostalgic resemblance to the massively successful RPG game "Diablo II" and its expansion set "Diablo II: Lord of Destruction". Both games share very similar elements of gameplay.
Even though the last patch (1.20) addressed several bugs and tuned balance, the game is still crash/freeze prone due to memory leaks that weren´t completely fixed. Game settings and system RAM do have impact on this, which causes a huge gap in the time to crash in different systems. This was discussed in the unofficial Titan Quest forum, Technical Corner, with cases of systems using 2GB Ram where 100% of memory clogged by the game after 3 hours of play, and can be verified using the system's task manager.
As opposed to most games based on mythology, Titan Quest is based on the end of the communication between the Gods and Humanity. The main character (whose name and sex is chosen by the user) begins the quest on a dirt road near a small village named Helos. The town and all of Greece have been overrun by beasts and creatures (drawn largely from Greek mythology) that are terrorizing the countryside wrecking harvests, burning farms and olive groves, invading villages and cemeteries, etc. After being sent on a mission to Delphi by the Spartan general Leonidas, the hero finds centaurs, satyrs, minotaurs, gorgons, demons, and skeletons relentlessly guard the way to prevent the hero from reaching the next village or town. Battling from one rebirth fountain to the next through miles of infested countryside and caves, the hero earns a brief reprieve in the fictional historic recreations of Delphi, Athens, and Knossos. In each town or village the hero passes through the storyline is expounded through interaction with non-player characters. The cause of the havoc is eventually gleaned from the representatives of an organization called "The Order of Prometheus." A lesser Titan called a Telkine (invented for the game and not part of Greek mythology) has apparently destroyed the communication "conduit" used by the ancient priests and oracles to contact the gods.
After defeating the first Telkine in a battle under the palace of Knossos, the hero then travels to Egypt in an attempt to reconnect communication through rituals hidden in a sacred scroll. But the rituals fail and the character has to fight another Telkine in the Valley of the Kings along with Egyptian mythical creatures in and around Giza and the Nile.
The search for the third (and final) Telkine takes the hero along the Silk Road to the Orient, battling yetis, Myrmidons and the Terracotta Army along the way with stops in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Himalayas, Mongolia, and the Great Wall of China. Chasing down the final Telkine proves difficult as the enemies grow significantly more powerful. Reaching the Jade Palace in China, the Yellow Emperor warns the hero that the Telkine has made its way to release the Titan Typhon from his earthly prison. At the Wusao Mountains the hero discovers that Typhon has made his way to Olympus. After killing the final Telkine, the hero must travel through a portal to reach Olympus and battle the Titan Typhon himself. Upon defeating Typhon, Zeus, the king of the Greek Gods, thanks the hero for their courage and talks about the break in connection with the gods.
The game then has an "Epic" level and then a "Legendary" level in which the monsters and battles in the storyline become significantly more difficult, gaining levels and certain special abilities. In addition, the players resistances are lowered with each successive difficulty level.
source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_quest |
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