Anyone got magicka?

[Drunken Monkey]

[video=youtube;g_XP9OBWGKo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_XP9OBWGKo[/video]

currently on offer on Steam

four player local and online co-op

[video=youtube;1_G60hZtcbI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_G60hZtcbI&feature=related[/video]

The expansion pack looks awesome too

[video=youtube;otZDWWbsqHo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otZDWWbsqHo[/video]

 

[Pete]

I have, i got bored with it after i got somewhere near the end though.... fighting on those islands ? against the boss.
not played it since and i haven't played it in co-op though.

 

[NilSatis]

Ive got it....a great little game for a couple of hours of fun. Lots of passworded servers however; so make sure youre mates have it! Probably a good thing as about 5-10 mins into a none passworded game online 2 of the members decided they didnt like each other and spent the next 5 mins battling and leaving myself and the host fighting the right side. Needless to say the host gave up in the end and it was a wasted half an hour or so.....

The single player is a good laugh, lots of fun to be had messing about with the spell combinations, although it is a pretty poorly optimised game. You can run it fine on max settings, but for such a simple game there is a noticeable amount of stuttering due to a coding bug in the map scrolling in some sections.

Running the game in windows mode fixes this if it doesnt bother you, I played with it fullscreen as I thought the stuttering was mostly non existant, but still shouldnt be there. It is an indie game though with a small production team and they have done very well with it. Most fun I have had in a game of that value in ages...puts some full price games to shame, it really does. The dev team are on the forums and have promised to iron out these small bugs and have already released patches to make it as stable as it is now; so no reason not to believe they will come out. The vietnam add on is just a couple of challenge maps but for the price is a worth while addition to the game for a measly sum of cash. Funny, fun; frustrating.......some of the reasons to buy it!

I had one crash on it after a few hours played on it, and a small gripe (probably due to the length of the game) is that you have to restart the level when turning the game off and loading it up again for another session as there are checkpoints but these are not saved on your save game. There is an editor available I believe if you look in the steam forums to pick a level etc. Enjoyed it......:turned:

 

[DeadEyeDuk]

I bought the complete pack the day before I got my new PC, so havent put in on the new one yet. Intend to give it a whirl as it looked quite fun...and WTF! Vietnam addon?

 

[LFFPicard]

http://www.manapool.co.uk/magicka-review/

Review from your no1 in game reviews

 

[Evil Tactician]

Magicka is awesome.

Seriously awesome.

 

[DeadEyeDuk]

It can get frustrating at time when you constantly fail at a boss/large group after getting pinned in etc.

Its def a game this can only be enhanced by 2-4 player mode!

Still awesome in SP, just niggly bits really.

 

[Pete]

i'm not really a fan of this game but this is a cracking advert....

oh, video contains violance, blood, gore and wizards etc....

[video=youtube;HgcEZ8jz_Hc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgcEZ8jz_Hc&feature=player_embedded[/video]

 

[spikopsycho]

Had this for a while now, played through it on singleplayer - seems a lot more fun on multiplayer though.

Like was said though, most the servers are passworded, so if ya got no friends who have the game to play with (Like me ), its meh. Usually if ya get onto a non password server, everyone will start killing each other within a few minutes, and then the host will give up.

Anyone still play this at all then? I ended up giving up tryna do a cop op playthough lol.