The whip lets you tag enemies at long range with flowing strikes, while the hammer is a gigantic migraine machine that crunches enemies with huge overhead swings.

Your primary way of getting from A to B is by gliding around on the sand with your own tootsies, although right at the end of the presentation there seemed to be a player riding about on a big dragon, so perhaps there's some faster – cooler – modes of transport to nab later on.Īside from gliding about, we saw the character use their magical gauntlet to manipulate sand and transform it into three or four different weapons, each with their own combos. And unlike The Surge, it doesn't have a hint of Soulslike in it, instead opting for more of a traditional third-person mixture of action and exploration.

From what I saw of the actual Atlas Fallen, it looks to be a semi-open world made up of several big areas, all interconnected by a more linear path than your usual 'see something, go there' type of open world. Fights had a lovely flow to them, with bursts of blue as enemies froze after perfect parries and combo-making that would make anyone salivateĪnyway. It could equally be the name of cinema's next action movie starring Tom Cruise, where Earth has succumbed to rising temperatures and he fights his way into a top-secret vault in the Arctic Circle where agents have held back the frost for generations. Atlas Fallen could be the name of any number of ARPGs with shiny CGI trailers. Atlas Fallen – at least to my eyes – features a character with characterless staples: shiny armour that pulses with blue magic, all spiky swords and capes and masks. My excuse for misremembering the game's name is warranted, I'd say.

Also I keep thinking it’s called Atlas Rising, not Atlas Fallen. Now, you'll have to forgive me for, but the presenation was brief and didn't give me many more details than the cool trail from last night.

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