Champions of Norrath PlayStation 2
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85 out of 100

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  • Summary: Create your own champions, each with unique powers, appearances and skills in this Action RPG. Experience an epic adventure filled with powerful action and ominous intrigue. Battle vicious monsters where your mastery of weaponry and spells is the only thing between you and the supremacy of evil. Champions of Norrath allows gamers to create their own unique hero to journey from the city of Faydwer into the wilds of Norrath to save the land from a gathering army of evil orcs and goblins. Players can adventure alone or with a band of up to three other players either over the Internet or on a single PlayStation 2 system with a Multitap. Import player characters into friends' games using a memory card and then take them home to play solo--the play options offer console gamers the freedom to play anytime and from any location. Champions of Norrath offers players more than 100 hours of gameplay per player character, unlimited battles, deadly missions and unmatched character customization in an enthralling fantasy world. [Sony Online Entertainment]… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 46 out of 51
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 51
  3. Negative: 0 out of 51
  1. AceGamez
    100
    Champions of Norrath melds action and adventure with RPG and although it's not a huge departure from previously, it's definitely worth a stab, or more specifically, a crushing overhead hammer blow.
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  2. Times Online
    100
    Right from the start in the tree kingdom of Kelethin, you are plunged into hack’n’slash heaven. The graphics are some of the best on the PS2, and there is plenty of variation in the gameplay.
  3. TotalGames.net
    86
    Not only does multi-play work, it... you get the idea. We don't want to detract from the goodness that is Baldur's Gate but even a mother who loves both her sons has a favourite. This is ours.
  4. Edge Magazine
    70
    It's in traditional multiplayer (and to some degree singleplayer) where the game shines and attains that perfect shallowness of being both addictive and immediately forgettable - until the next go. [Apr 2004, p.109]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 20
  3. Negative: 2 out of 20
  1. MateusC.
    10
    Better than Diablo and Dungeon Siege, this is the definitivie 'hack and slash' action RPG ever.
  2. MalachiA.
    8
    This game so rocks, but takes to long to run around and finish quests and doesn't have massive batles just like 12 at the most at one time. Thats why it gets an 8.… Expand
  3. RobL.
    7
    I like this game - being able to play up to 4 players is a big +. I wish more RPG games allowed more than one player. There are bugs, which does lower my score. One is that if you are at your weight limit, out of arrows or out of mana, it can take 15-30 seconds until your character tells you this. With 3 players, you can't rotate the camera view. There are plot holes, where you have to move on to a new area without a being given a quest. The game was released without much testing. Still, I like it.… Expand
  4. EdwinK.
    4
    A turn for the worst. I hoped that they had made improvements over BDGII, and there are some (graphics, cooperative play). But man is this game devoid of ANY depth, variation or fun. Monsters are all stupid and dull. Endless wandering, searching for items or something you might have overlooked, in a dead and empty world. No weather, night/day, or ANY interaction with anybody/anything besides plot-characters. No choices in what you say, or plot-variations, interaction is often just forced upon you when wandering about the "wrong" turns. It's worse than games like Doom/Quake, and that's saying a lot. This line of gaming can end NOW, for all I care. … Expand

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