Furthermore, the cut scenes are storyboard stills that, while effective at getting the message of a grim world across, are not going to make you вЂњoooвЂќ and вЂњahhвЂќ. Graphically, Grim Dawn is nothing to write home about, settling somewhere between The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing III and Path of Exile and your character model, whether male or female, is pretty ugly. The MASSIVE hand crafted, open world map has much to do with that character, giving you many caves to explore and optional roads to weave. You canвЂ™t help but feel that this world has been ravaged by evil and its surroundings ooze personality. Cairn is a dark and gritty world reminiscent of Diablo ll and its predecessor. Furthermore, some of the factions are mutually exclusive, so choose wisely.Д«eyond the story, Grim Dawn really starts to hit its stride with its atmosphere. Negative reputation on the other hand, increases enemy spawns, hero spawns, and eventually causes the dreaded Nemesis spawns-one of Grim DawnвЂ™s forms of endgame content. Positive reputation with factions unlocks increasingly more powerful loot and item modifications from vendors, in addition to the usual shop discounts. Depending on your choices, the game assigns you positive or negative reputation. It should also be noted that your choices in the story can effect gameplay. It may be too much to ask a Kickstarter game to have all the bells and whistles of a AAA RPG, so we wonвЂ™t hold that too much against them.

What breaks this interest, however, is the poor voice acting of the NPCs and the sometimes non existent VOs of certain quests or story elements. Grim Dawn does a good job in making you mildly interested in the world with a sufficient amount dialogue, dialogue choices and lore books to read. As I have reiterated time and time again, the story is always secondary to the game itself. Your Character is a human who has been excised of an Aetherial and has been recruited to bring an end to the two factions. _ вЂњвЂ¦В the gameplay of Grim DawnВ burns brighter than the fire that engulfs the horde of demons you just annihilated.вЂќ This cataclysmic war has not only decimated human civilization but is warping the very fabric of reality and, in its wake, giving life to new horrors and abominations. Cairn has become ground zero for an eternal war between two otherworldly powers, the Aetherials and Chthonians, one seeking to use human bodies as a resource, the other intent upon destroying the human race before that can happen. The world of Grim Dawn is set in Cairn, a dark, war-torn world where a once proud empire has been brought to ruin and the human race driven to the edge of extinction. It is not a question of whether these types of games are in demand or require an audience (see Diablo II fans who were disenchanted by Diablo III), but a question of whether Crate could deliver the ARPG tri-fecta of satisfying loot, combat, and skill progression with such a meager budget. Crate has gone back to the old ways of isometric ARPGs of the 90s and has tweaked that formula to bring it more in line with modern games.

Grim Dawn may be the first game to come from Crate Entertainment, but the development team is far from amateur the company was founded by Arthur Bruno ( Titan Quest) and created from the remains of Iron Lore Entertainment.

Four Years and over 500,000 dollars raised, Crate Entertainment has finally fully released its first, and much stalled game, Grim Dawnon Steam.

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