Sunday, December 28, 2008

Albion Review

Albion


Developer: Blue Byte Software Publisher: Blue Byte Software Release Date: 1995
Genre: Single player Sci- Fi Role playing game

Gameplay:
4/5


Albion is a role playing game with a mixture of 2d top down and first person camera views; top down for the 'outside' world and first person view in the underground dungeons. Since it is a role playing game, it has stats for your characters as well as gaining experience from killing enemies. Most of the non-combat part of the game involves puzzles and branched conversations so there are very few tasks involving 'Give X to Y person'.

The battle system in Albion is turn based that takes place on a 6 by 6 grid. At the beginning of each turn, the player chooses a action: Attack, move, cast magic, use items or flee.

Graphics:
5/5

The graphics in Albion are very nice to look at in both in the diverse outside and dungeon worlds.

Sound:
4/5

The sounds in Albion are good, with nice environmental sound effects along with the MIDI for the music.

Replayability:
2/5

The replayability in Albion is bad since it a role playing game (meaning lots of linearity).

Overall:
3.75/5

A fun sci- fi RPG game to play with very nice visuals and sound effects.

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