Divinity II: Ego Draconis Preview

Some of cdv Software’s henchmen stopped by the GameSpot offices with a new build of Divinity II: Ego Draconis, prompting the website to crank out some updated impressions of the RPG sequel.

The demo we saw of Divinity II skipped to different points across the game and featured both the PC and Xbox 360 versions of the game. The console demo we saw featured snippets of a battle against a necromancer–defeating him seems to be the final step in attaining the ability to assume dragon form and thus transform your character into a full-fledged dragon knight. Once you’ve beaten him, you’ll earn your dragon form and be taken through a tutorial of sorts that will get you acclimated to soaring through the skies and battling it out. In the tutorial, you’ll need to take out several anti-dragon defense towers by dipping in between their firing lines and blasting them with your fiery breath. Controls look to be a breeze: You move with the left stick, attack with the right trigger, and perform useful dash moves with the left trigger.

One look at Divinity II’s sprawling world map and it’s easy to see that the game is a big one–with plenty of places to explore and quests to engage in. With that said, the developers seem to have taken that size into effect and made movement fairly easy. You can, of course, fly wherever you like once you’ve attained dragon form. There’s also a series of teleporting hubs you can use to instantly move from one area to the next. There’s also your battle tower, which is your character’s home base and which you can transport to and from more or less instantaneously.