Titan Quest wore its inspirations on its sleeve as it felt very much like the venerable classic but in 3D with a mythological theme. When it originally came out there hadn’t really been much activity in the action-RPG genre since Diablo II pretty much sewed up the market. Some random town NPCs are performed with more gusto than say Loki who is just awful.Īs for how the game itself plays, for better or worse it is more Titan Quest. Aurally the game matches what came before, the music is unremarkable but fits well and the NPCs are all voiced with the quality of that voicework being all over the place. The expansion provides a few new bells and whistles that help make it feel a little fresh -as an example, the weather effects for fog and rain do an awful lot for the atmosphere. Visually the game looks solid it’s still an eleven year old game though it helps that it was a pretty good looker back then. It also raises the level cap by ten levels bringing it to eighty-five.
Thrown items are now an option, ranging from chakrams to daggers you can now design around something other than the previous ranged option: the bow.
Ragnarök also adds a whole slew of new gear, featuring armour and weaponry that fit into the new theme as well as an entirely new category of weapons. If you stick to just being a Runemaster, it can feel a little underwhelming as outside of placing explosive runes and enhancing your auto-attack there isn’t much to it, but thematically for the expansion it works and as a support mastery it opens up some interesting combinations. Ragnarök adds a new Runes mastery which has a focus on weapon buffing and traps, giving them a unique warrior druid feel. Masteries are Titan Quest’s take on classes throughout the course of the game you can select two, mixing and matching to create up to 45 unique classes. The plot sees you taking on armies of enemies that are both mundane and fantastical, as you find Surtr and attempt to prevent Ragnarök itself. You start out in Corinth that’s dressed in familiar Greek architecture, before the game sends you to far less temperate climes, with your quest sending you through Germany before heading northwards to Scania and beyond. Using this option seemingly locks you out of reaching the earlier acts in Normal difficulty as you are missing those waypoints for some reason, you can still reach them on higher difficulties. Alternatively, the expansion provides the ability to create a character at level 40, placing you in the new content armed only with enough funds to buy some basic gear. The new act takes place after Immortal Throne, getting there on an existing character requires you to bash old Hades in once again to progress to the new content.
Featuring familiar characters and references such as Loki, Sif, Heimdall, Yggdrasil the world tree, and the realm of Asgard to name a few, but used in ways that are often surprising or quirky. Ragnarök as you can probably guess is a look at Celtic and Norse myth through the same lens as the other entries take on Greek, Egyptian and Oriental tales. After giving Titan Quest and its original expansion - Immortal Throne - some tender loving care in the form of Titan Quest Anniversary Edition, they’ve created a new expansion - Titan Quest: Ragnarök - over 10 years after the original game came out. HQ Nordic have earned a decent amount of goodwill since taking ownership of a lot of older THQ properties. Reviews // 10th Feb 2018 - 5 years ago // By Simon Brown Titan Quest: Ragnarök Review
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