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Review: Magicka
Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 April 2011 11:25 Written by servbot_kill Wednesday, 27 April 2011 11:25
Title: Magicka
Genre: Action/Adventure, Fantasy, Parody
Release Date: January 25, 2011 (Worldwide)
System: PC
Format: DVD, Steam Digital Distro.
Magicka is one of those games that just comes out of nowhere and swiftly kicks you in the balls for being a tool in believing the standards of AAA games. It is a fantasy game, but a fantasy game in as much as Monty Python and the Holy Grail was a period piece about religion and chivalry. It is equal parts nostalgia and irreverence with a surprising amount of innovation thrown in for such a simplistic-seeming game. The guys over at indie group Arrowhead Studios hit an itch, an itch that has not been scratched for gamers for some time, and though it admittedly took three months of patches to get the damn thing playing decently, people who are blessed enough to be discovering it just now will be experiencing the game as it was always meant to be.
And they will love it.