I haven't played Greed Corp and passed up the Steam sale because I was intimidated by system requirements. P.S.: Should you decide to get the game, drop me a line on Steam (Schnitzelnagler), I'd be more than happy to have a game or three with a fellow GoGer. You don't need to visit these places, so one might consider them Easter egg alike in other games, but they are more 'logically' placed.Īll in all, Magicka is a great choice if you enjoy some experimentation, some relaxing time with friends and have a similar sort of humour as the developers (some people seem to be deterred by this). One thing that I especially enjoyed about Magicka is finding the 'secrets'. RQSRQERQ, SEDFQS - R, RRQR, ASF are all the 'magicks' (special spell which you have to learn from a book in order to be able and cast it) I needed and E, W, QE, DE, FQSSAA make for a next to sufficient normal spell combination. Fortunately, the demo contains the complete tutorial part, so as you mentioned the intention to try it, you should see how good or bad you can personally handle spells. For me it was only a little steep in the 'middle', but the tutorial explains everything fairly well and despite the vast combination of spells, most people end up with a few favourites that just suite their personal play-style. I wouldn't say that the game is an RPG in the typical RPG meaning of computer games really, but more of a strategy action mix with a special kind of game play, thus I'm not sure how many similar games you've played.Īs for the learning curve, this is a highly subjective matter, given that most of us have a different perception on this topic. It's one of these games where it doesn't matter how 'good' or 'bad' you are as a gamer in the group, it's still going to be fun for you and the team. If you have friends who'd play the game with you, it gets really amusing as you are bound to fry each other by accident and just going to laugh about it. But than again, that is something I enjoy, not being able to rely on the very same tactics in the complete game, having to adopt to the environment and enemies, thus that's a positive aspect in my biased view. I'm really not a great gamer and I only had trouble with two bosses and the feared yeti, until I figured a decent strategy. I wouldn't agree that the single player (adventure) mode of Magicka is really tricky once you get a bit of knowledge on spells and enemies. Yes, the multi player part of the game has been rather buggy, but there have been patches on a 24 hour base (with exception of the weekend, where Steam doesn't upload patches) and most of the issues are solved by now. I have not played Greed Corp, so I can not rate that part of the deal, but I'd say that Magicka is definitely worth getting. Haven't played Greed Corp and I have strategy games up the wazoo, so not really interested, therefore these comments are 100% biased.
#GREED CORP MULTIPLAYER WINDOWS#
There are no level ups, no inventory windows (except for your sword and staff), no mana and it's all up to how fast you can tap those keys and how well you remember your spell combinations to survive.
It is an RPG though, but the story is centered on being somewhat funny more than being memorable or even good. It still has bugs getting ironed out but it's really fun to play with friends who, if incompetent enough (like myself), tend to do more damage than the mobs themselves. Once people start getting tired of it, it'll be even harder with less friends to play with. So it's not so much learning the game that's difficult, but staying alive while playing alone. The single player is meant to be played co-op though and it gets too difficult for one player to survive in later stages, since once you die, you have no one to resurrect you and the saving system is checkpoint based, forcing you to start from the last checkpoint over and over again until you finish the level (if you quit, you start from the beginning of the level next time). Granted, you can create oh so many spells with different effects, but once you get used to your bread and butter ones, you can plow through knowing just a few combinations. Magicka's learning curve is not difficult.
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