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Your weapons change and upgrade frequently because of this, and you can alternate between different loadouts on the fly if you want to. The loot dynamic in the game also helps with this, and it’s as bountiful here as it was in the days of Diablo II.
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Missing at worst and broken at best last year, there’s now a full story to play through, and even though it’s a fairly generic tale it helps a lot in providing the player with an incentive to push forward. One area that’s a vast improvement over last year’s version is that the story campaign and its (side)quests.
You can (fairly early on in the game) also align yourself with one of the Norse gods, which grants access to unique abilities and the opportunity to adopt different playstyles. It’s an easy to manage upgrade system that’s more similar to action RPGs than Diablo than it is to the intricate progression system in some of this year’s best RPG titles, but with an emphasis on loot and action that’s hardly a surprise. When you level up in Rune II, you do so along four axes – strength being an obvious one that’s joined by dexterity, constitution and wisdom. The core plot is still your typical “prevent Loki’s ambitions to unleash Ragnarok upon Midgard” though, and it’s up to you and your (user generated) character to make sure it doesn’t happen.Īs I always do, I went with whatever visual appearance the game threw at me, but did spend time looking into my stats. Though I’m quite familiar with the first Rune (which is 20 years old already!), I had only briefly played last year’s sequel as I quickly lost interest due to bugs and a lack of post-release updates to fix them. They go on to talk about their own take on Rune II as a glorious Viking adventure full of betrayal, rebirth and revenge, so at least they’re not afraid to push off against the past and set the bar high for their own work. They describe the previous version as abandoned and sabotaged by the original developers (Human Head Studios, who were also behind the first Rune as well as the first Prey game), and are keen to point out that “the human head has been severed” – hence the title.
Reading up on Rune II’s Steam release, it’s hard to escape that the new developers, Studio 369, are keen to point out this is a very different game from what was released on the Epic storefront last year. About a year after the launch of Rune II on the Epic Store, the game is launching on Steam as the ‘Decapitation Edition’ – and there’s more to that title than you might think.
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