Dark Messiah of Might & Magic - Demo in Screenshots

[daiondoroga]

After finally getting this 2Gb juggernaut of a demo to finally work (learned I had to press R and then A to tell ZoneAlarm to let it through when the initial load screen froze - and disabiling visual themes in the Compatibility tab under Properties of the mm.exe shortcut), I took screenshots while playing.

After finishing the tutorial, I learned you get to customize your skills (something I have zero interest in when playing an FPS), but I wanted to see how the rest of the game looked, so I played through the rest of the demo map.

This is a fantasy-based FPS that uses a context-based combat system, and runs on the HL2 Source engine. It's a beautiful game, and it ran beautifully with everything maxed out at 1024x768, but I won't be buying it. You fantasy RPG junkies might wanna try the demo though.

Screenshots: »www.nyghtfall.com/mm

 

[Maniacal]

http://www.nyghtfall.com/mm/mm 2006-08-09 13-42-19-20.jpg

Heh heh. Wish I could do that in Oblivion. I hate undead. What is the story?

 

[Till]

Welcome to CFC, daiondoroga!
The game does indeed look beautiful. But you mentioned skills? How does that work out? Can you, in theory, ignore skilling and just hack&slash your way through your game (like in Gothic), or do you need to train skills in order to hit anything (like in Morrowind/Oblivion)?

 

[Maniacal]

Eh, in Oblivion at levels one and two the dremora are killable with two-four power hits. But yeah I get your point.

 

[kcwong]

It's Might and Magic after all. I expect you gain skill points after level up and use them to improve your skills. And you will need to find basic, advanced, expert and master trainers for skill perks.

daiondoroga, could you give us more detail about the gameplay?

 

[Thunderfall]

I watched some trailers of DMMM a while back. The graphics is awesome and the fighting is intense.

It looks like a very good use of the Might and Magic license.