Dragon’s Dogma

Capcom is working on its first role -playing game with the open world – Dragon’s Dogma for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The largest team in the history of the company, which the creators of Devil May Cry 4 Hyroyuki Kobayashi and Hideaki Itsuno, headed the project.

The development of Dragon’s Dogma began two years ago on the basis of MT Framework, the Capcom its own engine used in Lost Planet 2 and Resident Evil 5. In the role of a hero, telepathically connected with a powerful dragon, players have to travel around a huge country, perform various tasks, and in the final to find a mysterious interlocutor and destroy him.

The world of Dragon’s Dogma is a typical medieval fantasy, familiar in Western role -playing series like Gothic and The Elder Scrolls. NPCs live in cities and villages, subordinate to the 24-hour daily routine (for example, one of the major settlements has more than 200 fully voiced characters). Observe the daily cycle and some monsters-some creatures crawl out exclusively at night. The choice of classes is also standard: a warrior, a wizard and a wanderer (hybrid of a thief and archer).

In addition to the hero, up to three assistants receiving teams from the player can participate in the battle. The main «highlight» Dragon’s Dogma is a capture system that allows you to grab and hold the opponents so that the partner can strike. This mechanics turns battles with huge “bosses” into complex spectacular minigra, reminiscent of Shadow of the Colossus.

In the demo, shown by the press, the nyspins casino UK sister sites hero got into a battle with a griffin. Using the fire arrows, he first plunged the creatures of the wings so that it sank to the ground, then jumped on it with a run and clung to the feathers. Picking the monster with daggers, the character smoothly moved from the tail to the monster’s ridge, simultaneously “tagging” vulnerable places.

According to the authors, any part of the monster can be attacking – Dragon’s Dogma does not limit the scope for tactical imagination. And it will have to show it more than once or twice. For example, in the battle with the Hydra, who first needs to find unprotected points. It is impossible to cut off your head with a swamp monster – a new one will immediately grow up, to set up assistants – the poor man will instantly go to food.

The rest of the Dragon’s Dogma details are still hidden by fog. Judging by the hints of developers, the game provides for a certain network mode, the choice of ending depends on our actions, and some episodes can be passed peacefully. Capcom is in no hurry to reveal all the details at once, because the game will be released only at the beginning of next year.

Dragon’s Dogma has a huge open world and is generally very reminiscent of Demon’s Souls, scheduled only for PS3 and Xbox 360. CAPCOM considers the product the start of the new «hit franchise».

In Dogma, you head a group of three characters, and your priority goal is to kill a mystical dragon. The team members are controlled by AI, and their abilities depend on your actions throughout the adventure. The developers promise an “affordable depth” in the combat system, for example, the weight of your weapon or armor will affect the attack style, however, it is said that no micro -study in the game will be.

Dogma is created by the internal forces of Capcom, or rather the command responsible for the Resident Evil 4 and Devil May Cry 4. By good tradition, the development of the MT Framework engine is used in the development.

Action release is expected in 2012

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