Not the most promising start, it has to be said.Īfter a quick romp through your first dungeon (which serves mainly as a tutorial) you’ll emerge into a town where you’ll receive your first few quests, and the main bulk of the game begins. No customisation at all no colour settings, no gender options, not even a choice of preset appearances. You give your guy a name, then… the game starts. First step, choose a character class from the three standard types on offer: Fighter, Mage or Rogue, each having their own basic set of skills which can be developed as the game progresses. So with the backstory out of the way, we can launch into the character selection and customising. It’s a fairly shallow story, but it does the job reasonably enough. It turns out you’re a King, who’s been quite dead for a fair while and has been brought back to life by some fairies in order to fight the evil queen and rid the world of her less than friendly minions. After a brief introduction which outlines the story you can get going.

That’s as well as maybe, but being new to the dungeon hunting genre I sat down to get cracking with Dungeon Hunter with no preconceptions, no previous ideas of what to expect and no clue how any of this would work out. I’m told it’s easy to compare Dungeon Hunter Alliance to a range of older dungeon-based RPGs, that it’s all been done before. Despite a spectacularly cheesy release trailer which, if the comments on our previous article are to be believed, was enough to put people off Gameloft have given us a surprisingly deep and enjoyable adventure. Released last week in the EU and this week in the US, Dungeon Hunter: Alliance brings co-op RPG action onto the PS3.

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