Champions of Norrath Review

The Armchair Empire has dished up a very positive review of Champions of Norrath, giving the PS2 action RPG an overall score of 9.3/10. Their final thoughts:

Online or off, single-player or mulit-player, Champions of Norrath is a great game. I can think of a few things to complain about, but they are so minor as to amount to nitpicks. The only really damning thing I have to say has little to do with Norrath and more to do with the license. The world of Everquest is so boring and so derivative that I never got the feeling I was in some amazing fantasy world while playing. That is the only advantage the Dark Alliance games have over Norrath the appeal of the D&D license vs. that of the Everquest one. A giant, screen-filling Beholder is simply a cooler boss than a giant queen ant or a big, generic looking demon. Hopefully Snowblind will get another shot at a Dark Alliance title and use Norrath as the model. The combination of the D&D license with the Champions of Norrath gameplay would make for a perfect game. As it is, Norrath is good enough.