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Eventually you'll have up to 10 spells to use, including such D&D favorites as magic missile, chain lightning, and meteor swarm. Though he can attack using his staff as a bludgeoning device, the sorcerer excels primarily at ranged spells. Rounding out the three characters is the sorcerer.

Aside from stealth, the rogue is capable of jumping up to ledges, and other interesting, but hard-to-reach areas, to find hidden treasure. If you move carelessly and quickly in the sight lines of enemies, you'll lose your hidden status and be forced to hide again or go into regular combat. You need to be careful while in stealth mode, though. In this stealth state, the rogue's attacks become much more powerful, and you can even execute backstabs which can kill enemies in just one strike. By simply getting out of the sight lines of nearby enemies and ducking into a dark spot, the rogue becomes hidden, which is represented on-screen by her body turning gray and translucent. While playing as the rogue, these special areas will be made obvious to you with a graphical effect. She has the unique ability of being able to see dark areas where she can hide from sight. The rogue's primary strength is in stealth.

While all three characters are fairly capable, the fighter is the most ideally suited for that type of work because he's the strongest, and he can absorb the most punishment. Using slashes, punches, and combination attacks, he can deal significant damage to enemies with his weapon. The fighter, as you might expect, will act as a melee combat specialist. The three playable characters include: a burly fighter, a female drow rogue, and a staff-carrying sorcerer. This means you'll always be traveling and fighting through the missions in a party with the ability to swap control between any of the characters on the fly. What's new in Demon Stone is that you'll be able to switch between the three characters instantly within each mission by simply tapping on the D pad. From our play testing, the combo timing seemed somewhat more forgiving than it was in Stormfront's previous game. You'll have single-button combos and multibutton combos at your disposal, as well as powerful counterattacks that can be executed off of successful parries. You'll also be able to fight using combination moves that are very similar to the ones used in The Two Towers. We had a chance to get hands-on with the game at a recent pre-E3 press event.Īs in Stormfront's previous game, you'll be able to play as one of three different characters as you make your way through Demon Stone's ten missions. Like The Two Towers, Demon Stone will allow you to fight your way through legions of monsters in a high-fantasy setting. The game is being developed at Stormfront Studios, the experienced team behind the more highly lauded The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers game. This year, the publisher is keeping the hack-and-slash, while omitting the role-playing elements with another D&D game, Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone. Last fall, Atari released Dungeons & Dragons Heroes, a hack-and-slash role-playing game that ultimately met with mixed reviews.