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Avencast: Rise of the Mage

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Game Info

Publisher: Lighthouse Interactive

Developer: ClockStone Software

Genre(s): Role-Playing Game

Players: 1

ESRB Rating: RP (Rating Pending)

Release Date: October 25, 2007

Summary

Avencast: Rise of the Mage is a Role Playing Game set in a perilous fantasy world. The player begins his journey as an adept attending the renowned magic academy – AVENCAST – a place of learning in a world of wizardry, wonder and untold mystery. When Avencast is descended upon by demonic hordes the very survival of his world is at stake. While the hero grows in power and becomes a battle scrarred mage, he must fight off nightmarish creatures and transcend dimensions into the past to track down his own destiny. Avencast: Rise of the Mage is a game accessible to both novice RPG players while still challenging core RPG and Action fans with a variety of skills and strategies. [LightHouse Interactive]

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What The Critics Said

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RPG Fan

If you're looking for a short, fun, single-player romp through magical realms on your PC, this game is a great choice to satisfy that urge.

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GameZone

This is a single-player title that would do well to introduce newer players to the genre, but will give veterans a nice old-school experience.

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PC Gamer

These concerns aside, Clockstone Software has crafted a magically entertaining spell-casting experience--and an unexpectedly decent game. [Apr 2008, p.67]

GameSpot

Avencast balances the action-oriented and traditional RPG genres better than you might expect.

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Pelit (Finland)

Technically Avencast got everything right: fighting is fun, interface is functional and the game has beautiful graphics; especially the spell effects are great. But the game itself is too simple, it’s almost completely hack’n slash. The action gets repetitive pretty fast, storyline is horrible collection of clichees and most of the spells are unnecessary. Still, if you’re a huge Diablo, Nox, Sacred, etc. fan, you might find Avencast attractive. [Jan 2008]

AceGamez

After some time playing Avencast: Rise of the Mage, I discovered that sadly it's not the wizard experience I was hoping for, with all its talk of ditching maths for more shooter-style gameplay - both of which it achieves to varying degrees.

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IGN

With so many typical fantasy RPGs coming out all the time, it’s nice to see something a little different in Avencast Rise of the Mage. Despite the cliché setting and plot, it manages to differentiate itself well by incorporating environmental puzzles and an action-oriented control system.

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GameShark

At the end of the day Avencast is a solid action role-playing game with some great puzzles and a combat system that tries to do things differently.

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Gamers' Temple

Avencast manages to be derivative and innovative at the same time, and the result leaves the game somewhere on the lower side of average.

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Worth Playing

For everything that it does right in a given area, it does something wrong.

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PC Zone UK

There are bigger, better and cheaper RPGs out there. [Jan 2008, p.87]

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes

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