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Site Navigation Main    News    Forums Games    Games Database    Top 100    Release List    Support Files Features    Reviews    Previews    Interviews    Editorials    Diaries    Misc Download    Gallery    Music    Screenshots    Videos Miscellaneous    Staff Members    Privacy Statement   E3: Arx Fatalis report (PC: Single-Player RPG) | Posted by @ Thursday - May 31, 2001 - 03:53 - Top | Game Info | Rate this game | Homepage | Screenshots RPGVault has put up a recap of their visit at Fisthank's booth during the E3 where lead designer Raphael Colantonio presented a demo of Arx Fatalis, a first-person RPG still in development... Perhaps the most interesting single element of the game is the gestural spellcasting, which the developers described as a mouse-based sign recognition system. In Arx Fatalis, magic is based on combination of runes that can be acquired through the course of the adventure. For example, one such rune shows a straight vertical slash, another a three-sided symbol like the sides and bottom of an incomplete square. Holding down a key on the keyboard and using the mouse to draw these two symbols in succession, the player causes a spell to be cast. I didn't write down the actual gestures we were shown, but if I recall correctly, this particular pairing produced a fireball-like result. Then, we were shown how spells can be changed by substituting a movement from a different rune.

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