Nox (video game)

Nox is a system developed by Westwood Studios action role-playing game released on 31 January 2000 for the PC.

Game mechanics

You control your avatar in this game, which you can select from three pre classes, through various dungeons and upper worlds to achieve the game goal, the return to your own world. Each of the three classes has different ways of doing before, and has both in-game and at the end of different experiences, what the replay value increases. The story is told alongside the experienced by the player act as part of his game in addition due to frequently occurring, scripted in the game scenes. The player moves the character through an isometric illustrated environment that has as one of the first in games of this type have a true line of sight limitation. This means things that are not visible from the perspective of the player character, even the players are not displayed. The environment can be a part also influenced by the player, which is mainly used for Puzzle. Besides the usual movement of the avatar in this game is able to execute a leap forward.

The game offered a for action RPGs that time rather rare quest system, which offers the player easy quests on a larger scale that need to be overcome. It shall meet regularly on NPCs which accompany the player for a certain period of time. The skills and magic part is limited mostly to learning the same, and offers little opportunity for development for the character outside of his archetype. Equipment, however, exist in great variety, and is displayed when you create directly on the avatar, then a new feature in this kind of game. In multiplayer mode, players have direct access to all skills (apart from the exclusive for solo play ) to exclude benefits by a different stage of development.

History

Nox was developed by Westwood Studios and released on January 31, 2000 by EA. Originally conceived and developed as a multiplayer game, was more prominent in the later course of development of the solo aspect.

In August 2000, published by Westwood a free extension for Nox: Nox Quest offered an extension of the multiplayer mode to a cooperative game (until then was only competitive game in multiplayer is possible), and the possible map size for this style multiplayer game expanded greatly.

2011 Nox was re-released in the digital distribution of gog.com.

Since 2013, the fan community is working on an unofficial patch instead of DirectX SDL as graphics backend to maintain compatibility to improve.

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