Once you’re through the character creation process, which also involves selecting how many players will be in your game and the difficulty level, you’ll be transported to the Plane of Tranquility and get a lecture about the backstory from Firiona Vie (y’know, the half-naked chick from the EverQuest boxes). Return to Arms doesn’t have a story so much as it has an excuse to go out and slaughter things. It can be played either on its own or as a sort of “expansion pack” to the previous Champions of Norrath game, letting you send your old characters on new quests for even more loot. The way Champions updates this old formula is entirely satisfactory, if not exactly a stunning exercise in originality, and the result is a very fun party game. It comes out of the same game design traditions as ASCII dungeon crawlers like Rogue and Nethack, but splashes in the multiplayer appeal of the arcade classic Gauntlet. Champions is a hack n’ slash-style RPG, light on story but long on action. Buy 'CHAMPIONS: Return to Arms': PlayStation 2Īfter reviewing so many Japanese action RPGs lately, Champions: Return to Arms is a nice change of pace.
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