Requiem Of Hell

I’m not really a huge fan of hack and slash type titles but I was interested to see what Nokia had done with this game to make it immersive and detailed on the N-Gage. The first positive point I noticed was that you can play as either a male or a female warrior named either Troy or Linda. You are basically required to help save the world from the evil king Dalu and with the help of your fairy friend Gigi you will battle on through this extensive campaign.

The graphics are very nice to look at and the different characters in the game are very well animated and don’t seem to suffer any slowdown when there are other enemies on screen and trust me you will come across plenty of them. You can of course use many cool spells to help you out on your war against the nasties and these look very colourful and bright, detracting from the fairly standard backgrounds.

The audio is pretty run of the mill and nothing to gasp at but it does a good solid job and it has all the right sound effects in all the right places. Some of the written dialogue is badly translated and this can be amusing and will also have you thankful that the lines aren’t spoken! The soundtrack is very dramatic if a little repetitive and irritating and even from the opening credits you’ll realise that this is meant to be an epic adventure which immerses you in it’s sprawling gameplay. Speaking of which, the gameplay is pretty damn good. You will spend a lot of your time fighting against enemies in real time and they come at you thick and fast. At times there were at least ten enemies on the one screen and they vary as you travel throughout the world. This isn’t an easy game, don’t expect to simply power your way through it defeating enemies left right and centre. You’ll have to choose the right weapon for the job and at times this leads you into more danger. This is of course a positive point as it means there’s some strategy to it at least.
You can play this in single player mode quite happily and although you can play co-op multiplayer, don’t expect the Arena support for this one, although to be honest it really doesn’t need it.

This is a pretty good RPG and if you can overlook the annoying background music you’re sure to progress through this with much glee at just how many enemies you can take down in a short space of time. It looks fine, it moves along nicely and aside from the funny dialogue doesn’t seem to have too many problems over all. One of the better N-Gage titles out there of this genre and good for female gamers as you can choose to be a chick if you want to. YAY