Reviewers Liked
- Great magical variety
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Buggy to the point of being unplayable, Derivative plot, quests, and map structure, Limited and bizarre character choices
Dawn of Magic
58
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Expert reviews and ratings
By BrightHub
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40
This offering is a standard RPG with a standard plot - so standard that you will be able to predict everything that happens. The game also has one fatal flaw; a program that from time to time crashes for no apparent reason. Pass on this game and you...
By Gaming Nexus
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8
The action RPG genre is a tough one to balance out—players will need to spend hours grinding their way through hordes of enemies, slowly advancing in both power and equipment. Good games will find a way to make this grind enjoyable, even...
By GameSpot
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30
Buggy, broken, and entirely unoriginal, Dawn of Magic is one horrible action-oriented role-playing game....
By IGN Gear
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54
"Well, since we dont know what the Absolute is, there is no need to bother finding it out." Well said, Arthur Measely, magic shop owner whose name is totally not a Harry Potter reference. No need to bother. Dawn of Magic is a click-to-move fantasy...
By Game Chronicles Magazine
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85
All in all, Dawn of magic is one of the better hack ‘n’ slash RPG titles to come out in some time. I really enjoyed the abundant amount of locations, weapons and spells. Since I favor the mage in most RPGs. I fell right in love with this...
By GameZone
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50
Dawn of Magic, published by Atari is an old-school RPG. The only problem with this is that it uses most of the clichés of the genre and fails to forge anything remotely new. This is a game that pays tribute to the old role-playing games, but not...
By Games Radar
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50
Oct 17, 2007Dawn of Magic is perhaps one of the least offensive games ever made, but it's also one of the most toothless. The game successfully copies moves from the Diablo book of success, but in the end it simply does not have enough soul to rest...
By ImpulseGamer
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80
Tory FavroClassification: M15+8.0Similar in feel to games that have been molded from ones like Diablo, Dawn of Magic is a nice looking game that has thrown in a number of quirky elements that attempt to set it aside from others in the genre. Does it...
By Play TM
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55
You can almost imagine the meeting when Dawn of Magics developers were pitching the game to interested...
By DarkZero
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35
Throw a quick glance over at the screenshots, and it’s not exactly difficult to see that Dawn of Magic is your standard fantasy RPG. You run around, lobbing lightning bolts at giant scorpions, getting quests off townsfolk, levelling up your...
By Custom PC
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79
A highly open-ended, if dated-looking, role-playing game Dawn of Magic is a hack-and-slash action RPG inspired by games such as Titan Quest and Diablo. However, this is an RPG with a twist.The game opens with a rather long-winded FMV sequence about a...
By Yet Another Review Site
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90
"An immortal named Modo has been sent to live a full mortal life on earth as punishment for his crimes in the Absolute, the realm of the afterlife. Angered by this humiliation, the mortal Modo is determined to not only reclaim all his previous power,...
By Strategy Informer
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77
Developed by Russian-based company Sky Fallen; Dawn of Magic sticks firmly to the tried-and-tested traits of the point and click Action-RPG genre, whilst at the same time attempting to bring a fresh coat of paint and a little bit of innovation to...
By IGN Gear
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69
Over the years, weve seen more than our fair share of games like Dawn of Magic - action RPGs packed with incessant mouse-clicking combat, myriad items and enough spells to make Gandalf feel inadequate. However, rather than simply carbon-copying the...
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