The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing Preview

There’s a new two-page preview of The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing over at Gamers Daily News, and once again the piece is based on the information that Neocore Games revealed during this month’s E3. Here’s a sampling:

In the game you’ve got two things to keep an eye on, health and magic. The first obviously keeps you alive while the second is needed to use your special magic skills. Along the way Van Helsing will pick up a companion, Lady Katarina, who will both help and hinder him at times (she’s got a mouth on her we’re told and likes to berate him at times).

The game will include three different skill trees, one for melee, ranged and magic each. That will allow you to play the character the way you want. Since the game was in pre-alpha at the show we didn’t get to see much of it.

Rage is accrued while you are attacking and that can then be used to power up your other skills.

Enemies will have strengths and weaknesses and so you will need to pay attention to what each is weak against to more easily dispatch them. The enemies range in size and strength from one-hit minions to mega-bosses with special attack requirements. For example, one of the enemies we saw was immune to frontal attacks and so you had to manage to get around to his side or back to do damage.