Pool of Radiance @ E3

IGN PC’s E3 coverage also includes UbiSoft’s Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor, in which they’ve added to a preview from last year. As usual, here’s a snippet:

What impressed me most about PoR’s gameplay was its smooth, windows/menu-based interface, giving the user full control over the action without excess clutter. Rather than utilizing the bar/split screen interface found in a game such as Baldur’s Gate, SSI’s has decided to pursue a simpler, sleeker system that will allow players to control their characters primarily through the right mouse button and customizable hotkeys. Equipping characters, manual attacks and spell casting are so simple to execute that could easily support a real time battle system (even though PoR uses the traditional D&D turn based system).

You can find the article right here.