TORN Preview

Black Isle Studios’ upcoming 3D RPG, TORN, has been given a lengthy preview over at GameSpot. Along with the preview are several brand new screenshots. Here’s a snippet:

The name Torn refers to the gameworld’s ancient history, when the gods tore apart the world because they couldn’t agree on how to populate it. Since then, various fantasy mainstays have populated the world and thrived in it, including such beings as ogres, elves, dwarves, halflings, humans, and dragons. Of the player character races, you can choose from humans, elves, dwarves, halflings, and sidhe, who are wood elves. Ogres were originally a playable race, but the designers soon found that they were having to redraw all the items and levels in the world to accommodate the much larger size of the ogre, so they dropped the ogre as a PC race. You’ll still encounter them as NPCs and monsters, though.