


the bigger the treasure horde it's usually sitting on top of. The more enemies you topple, the stronger your characters will get, gaining points you can spend to increase their skills to your liking. Once the threat is dealt with, click the crossed swords symbol to shift back into peace mode and clean your wounds. Battles are turn-based, and you shift into combat mode whenever an enemy is close enough. Click on an area to walk there, or on an item or person to interact. The game is a top-down-and-to-the-side view RPG, and while it offers a big heaping helping of customiseable keyboard shortcuts that may be intimidating, most of the game is played simply by pointing and clicking. You have a main quest you're supposed to be doing, but chances are you'll forget what it is because you'll get distracted by some sort of glowing mystical doo-dad on the horizon and wind up embroiled in a bunch of dungeon crawling for hours before you remember that maybe you should get on that whole "world saving thing". You strike out into the world with your party of four customiseable heroes, save a lot because you'll die a whole bunch, and engage in turn-based strategic combat with flea-ridden unicorns in between trying to pawn off the various household objects you nick from other people. If you've never played the Avernum series, allow me to sum up the main concept for you. Never visited Avernum before? No worries, bub this gig is strictly "no experience necessary". and luckily for Avernum, you might know just where to find them. At the same time, the lizard people known as the Slithzerikai make their move, striking at the severely weakened and desperate Avernites and sparking off a war the people can ill afford. Just when you thought everyone's favourite underground civilisation was in the clear, a blight strikes the precious few crops capable of growing beneath the earth and famine begins to take hold.
AVERNUM 6 CHARACTER CREATION SERIES
Spiderweb Software's iconic RPG series comes to a close with Avernum 6. It's time to buckle your swashes and stock up on Dragon-B-Gone (Dragon-B-Gone has not yet been evaluated by the FDA) and strike out one last time.
