I really hope it has a coop mode.

I heard they're doing coop.

If they aren't though, I'm sure someone will mod it in within a couple of months.

The videos I've watched on Gamespot look pretty cool, like being picked up and hurled by an orc, the blood staying on your sword, and slow-motion slaying.

Question: can you create your own character in this (demo or full game)? Or is it preset? I don't have enough time to download the demo today to find out.

Oblivion is dying a slow painful death. I advise against any mods for that game. Its a serious waste of time.

In my case, I'm going to save my energies and ideas for either NWN2 or Dark Messiah.

I've been hurled around by an orc.

I've only been hurled once and it was straight off a cliff.

Yea that happened to me too.

I love how the orcs use traps on you too. One game I cut the rope to that tied lamp which crashed on the deck and threw the orc to his death. The next game I was trying to trick him into slidding off that deck with the freeze spell but I was tricked when he used that same lamp trap and sent me to my death. ;_;

So basically, is it like Oblivion except 100x more awesome? I was pretty much sold when I watched the demos, but I just want to make sure.

I chased one in that building and he cut the rope on that like... bundle of spikey lumber trap.


All I could do was watch as it swung down into me and killed me.

Wrong.

Its a first person shooter (with swords), not an open-ended role-playing game like Oblivion. You have a preset character named Serith, you cannot create your own.

You can, though, set your character's skills to be a warrior type, wizard type, or assassin type, and each are fun the play. The storyline will most likely be linear, a la Hexen, I would guess.

It looks awesome. Can't wait to play the demo.
I remember playing the "Heroes of Might and Magic 3" demo constantly for about a year and never ever beating it before the clock ran out. Hah. Legends of Might and Magic was fun too, getting to play as a warrior, a magic user, an assassin, etc etc like in this.

-And combat here looks way awesome. Seriously. The FoV looks a little wonky, but HL2's the same way and I'm fine with that. I also like the DBZ-esque magic animations, and the ka-raaaaazy dagger moves. I wonder if you can use shields. Or other dual weapons.

OK, this is a little bit combination of stuff I found elsewhere mixed with some stuff I figured out on my own. And, it's 7AM and I'm running on no sleep so excuse the incoherency.

Create a new text file called "myconfig.cfg" in your "C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\Dark Messiah of Might and Magic Demo\mm\cfg" folder. In this file, write:

bind "F1" "mm_npc_create_orc_sword_shield"
bind "F2" "mm_npc_create_goblin"
bind "F3" "mm_npc_create_cyclope"
bind "F4" "mm_npc_create_Phenrig"
bind "F5" "mm_npc_create_human_guard_bow"
bind "F6" "mm_npc_create_undead"
bind "F7" "mm_npc_create_wizard"
bind "F8" "exec myconfig.cfg"
bind "F9" "god"
bind "n" "noclip"
bind "[" "map_warrior e3_l06_l09"
bind "l" "mm_player_add_skillpoints 20"
bind "q" "mm_player_add_adrenaline 100"
bind "mouse3" "ent_remove"
bind "mouse4" "ent_text"
bind "r" "CreateHairball"
bind "t" "give weapon_mm_staff_wood"
g_ragdoll_maxcount 200
arrow_unlimited 1
mm_player_stamina_megasprint_cost_per_second 0
ent_messages_draw 1
developer 1
mm_player_skills_grosbill 1

Save it, and close it. Now, right click on the shortcut to the demo, and choose properties. In the target box, after what's in there already, add " +sv_cheats 1 +map_warrior e3_l06_l09 +exec myconfig.cfg" (no quotes)

Now, this is going to do a few things. You can look at the config file and take some guesses. Basically, F1-F7 spawn NPC's wherever you're looking, some you wouldn't even normally see in the game. You can have your fun spawning them, killing them, watching them fight amongst themselves. F8 will reload the config file, so if you alt tab and change something you can reload your changes right away. You've got god mode (invincibility) on F9, noclip (fly through walls) on n, and [ will reload the map. L will give you 20 more skill points, and Q will fill your adrenaline bar for quick power moves.

If you've spawned too many entities, mouse3 will delete them. Just be careful with that, if you start deleting random stuff it can crash. Mouse4 brings up a useful info box about the entity you're looking at. R, well, it's odd. Try it for yourself.

T is set to give you a weapon that's not in the demo, and is carried by the wizard. It also has a cool new power move you should try.

Cheat code stuff

orcs, elves, boring.