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The Dark Eye: Demonicon

Format Xbox 360

Developer Unknown

Publisher Unknown

Genre Role Playing

3-Mar-2010 Who said that grand RPGs needed to be lonely, one-player affairs?

3 Comments

We've all been there. You're pulling your axe from the skull of a thorny creature, and you find yourself looking over at your AI companions.

You know the ones - the noble-yet-boring girl, the cynical guy, the comedy sociopath. Knocking back a healing potion, you wonder if the game wouldn't be better if they were real friends. Think of all the fun you'd have bickering over loot, or screaming at them over Live to stop setting you on fire with poorly-aimed spells.

Well, social salvation is on its way in the form of Demonicon. This isn't a Borderlands-alike - an action game plus experience points. This is a Dragon Age or Oblivion, a full, rich RPG with moral choices, complex character progression and a minimum of three (count 'em!) solutions to each quest - plenty of which will be non-violent. The twist is, you'll be able play it all in a group.

At this early stage Silver Style is keeping quiet about how conversations with NPCs will work online, but it did let slip that it will feature group-specific content, including dungeons tailored for teamwork.

The game starts with your foster father having a funny turn and trying to kill your character's childhood friend. With your dad condemned to the gallows, you embark on a quest to prove your family's innocence; quite possibly discovering A Far Greater And More Sinister Plot on the way.

The meat of the game will be set in the Blacklands, a strange realm bordering your character's home, where everything is spiritually and physically tainted by evil. Eric Jannot, the developer in charge of the story, is keen to set up themes of clinging to love and hope, and questioning whether the ends of moral choices can ever justify the means.

As for us, we're questioning whether these screenshots are real. We know Silver Style is working on its own engine for Demonicon, which features new tech, but some of the fire, hair and water in these shots is a little too impressive. But if the game looks even three quarters as good on our 360s as it does on these early screens then we'll be in for a visual treat.

OXM Staff