Shadowbane Impressions @ GameSpot

GameSpot has posted their impressions of Shadowbane after seeing the game at this year’s Gen Con. A snippet to follow:

Shadowbane will also let players adjust their characters’ five physical attributes: strength, dexterity, intelligence, constitution, and spirit (the latter directly correlates to how much spell power a character will possess). Strength will determine a character’s raw physical power, dexterity will determine how accurate a character is in combat and how easily that character can dodge incoming attacks, and intelligence will determine the amount of extra skill points characters will earn each time they gain levels and exactly how high those characters can progress in each skill. Interestingly, as we saw in the demonstration, players who adjust their characters’ starting strength attribute higher or lower will actually make their characters taller or shorter, while characters with high constitution ratings will actually have broader chests and be of sturdier build.