An Unhealthy Obsession

A few weeks ago it was my birthday, and my wonderful fiancee got me a copy of Titan Quest to go with my shiny new computer. Fast forward two weeks, and we are now both knee-deep in an unhealthy obsession with the game, that sees us competing for computer time and generally being totally lame.

The game itself is essentially Diablo 2 but updated for modern computers. Complete with beautiful 3D graphics, physics included (when you kill a monster, rather than a scripted death animation it goes flying off based on how hard it was hit, including going over cliffs and rolling down hills etc). It also has this totally awesome loot system where the enemies actually drop the weapons and armour that they were using. If you kill a skeleton wearing a helmet, he drops that helmet, if he has a spear, he drops the spear, etc. Now that doesn't SEEM that big of a deal to a casual observer, but believe me in computer game terms that is lightyears ahead of previous products, where you could kill a small rat only for him to drop a full sized breast-plate or giant two handed warhammer.

Another big change is that rather than set classes, instead all characters start off identically and once they level up can choose from eight masteries, each of which include a host of skills. You can then choose a second mastery at level 8, which leads to a whole bunch of possible hybrid classes.

Anyway, right now it is more addictive than crack and Suzy and I are both totally consumed by it. I am already on to my second character, and she just started the third and final act of the game. Highly recommended to anyone with a love of Diablo and a beefed up computer!