I’m so glad I can just kill things and loot them, I thought. It’s an amazing piece of storytelling, and a good game in its own right. That game made waves for forcing the player to reconsider the morality of wading through hordes of enemies, killing everything on the screen. There were monsters of all shapes and sizes just laying around, or meandering aimlessly, waiting for my gun slinging Outlander and loyal panther to gib them to smithereens.Īfter the third encampment of vicious animal-men I slaughtered my way through, I began to idly think of the most recent game I’d played: Spec Ops: The Line. There were parts of the map I hadn’t uncovered. Reviews don’t write themselves, and a pile of observations and finer points of interest slid past my writer’s inner eye as I clicked my way through the landscape. Three hours into the game I had to force myself to stop playing. Torchlight II, given both its similarity and proximity in release to the latest entry in the D series, faces the same, but it’s more than capable of being judged on its own merits. Understandable, and it withstood the comparison well. The first Torchlight was compared to its spiritual predecessor in nearly every review, message board, and blurb on the web and in print. And that’s the last time I’ll mention the D word Not terribly surprising given that two of the developers were behind Diablo II. Torchlight II is a glimpse into that universe, sans dinosaurs. Instead, Blizzard decided to build off of the success of Diablo II by changing the art style, adjusting the multiplayer, and basically just taking everything that was good about that game and adding more. In one of those universes, World of Warcraft died in committee. Or maybe it does, but you don’t care, because in that universe dinosaurs never went extinct and you’re a 14-ton triceratops with thumbs*. There are nearly infinite numbers of universes where it doesn’t. If a piano falls on your head tomorrow, don’t worry. This holds true for every event that ever happened, ever. Some say that for every decision you make, there is an alternate universe where you made another. Adventure solo or online with your friends! What We Think: Torchlight II is fast, fun, and filled to the brim with action and loot.
Torchlight II captures all the flavor and excitement of the original game – while expanding the world and adding the features players wanted most, including online and LAN co-op multiplayer.
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