GameVisions review

Wow, three reviews today! <p>This time, <a href="http://www.gamevisions.com/">GameVisions</a> cranks out a whopping <a href="http://www.gamevisions.com/reviews/arcanum/">Four Page Review</a>, and these pages aren't short either! I have to hand it to the author, <i>John Del Percio</i> for earning his keep with such a long <a href="http://www.gamevisions.com/reviews/arcanum/">review</a> there. Good show, even if he finds <b>turn based</b> annoying.<p>Oh, he gave <a href="http://www.arcanum1.com/">Arcanum</a> a <b>95%</b>, and here's part of it:<p><br><blockquote><br> In the grand tradition of Fallout, there are more character statistics than you could ever imagine. Just when you thought Fallout featured the most stats in any game, in comes Arcanum. It has more base stats that affect more things (and can be modified using your points from leveling up), it features a technology tree which requires points placed in each skill, nearly as many schools of magic as Dungeons and Dragons with five spells in each, and several sets of skills including social (gambling, persuasion), thieving skills (pick pocket, and prowl), and others. It begins to be quite clear after a short amount of time that no character could ever master every available skill tree, which is unfortunate because nearly all the available skills are quite useful, even necessary.<br></blockquote><p>Of course, John goofed when he said this:<p><blockquote><br>Arcanum was built on a heavily adapted Fallout engine.<br></blockquote><p>Quite wrong, John. It's a brand new engine. <a href="http://www.interplay.com/">Interplay</a> owns the <a href="http://www.interplay.com/fallout/">Fallout</a> engine, not <a href="http://www.troikagames.com/">Troika</a>.<p>You know what they say about when you assume!<p>This was spotted at <A href="http://www.bluesnews.com/">Blue's</a> as well.