D&D: Drizzt Goes Stealthy In Dark Alliance – Also Gameplay Reveal
Dark Alliance, the upcoming D&D 3rd-person brawler, is looking better and better. Come check out the first few minutes of gameplay for yourself!
In the halcyon days of 2001, Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance changed the way that people thought of Baldur’s Gate. Heretofore, the city in the Shadow of Amn had once been home to a sprawling, party-driven RPG. But with Dark Alliance, players were in for an experience much more like Diablo.
Instead of playing through turn-based RPG shenanigans with a strong party dynamic that could change depending on the different choices you made for your class, you took on one of three different characters: Kromlech, Vahn, or Adrianna.
And everyone played Adrianna. It was a marked difference from the expansive, pseudo-open world nature of Baldur’s Gates past, but it struck a chord with its audience. And, if you played the game for hours and hours, unlocking and beating the extra hard Extreme mode, you’d unlock none other than Drizzt Do’Urden.
Now you don’t have to go through nearly as much hassle to unlock Drizzt. All you have to do is play the game, as Dark Alliance places you in command of the eponymous Drow Ranger. Only, in the new game from Tuque Games, Drizzt takes on a much stealthier approach to things. According to a couple of recent gameplay videos, it seems like this is a new look at the classic hack-and-slash action of the old Dark Alliance.
Each character has a light and heavy attack, you can chain hits together for combos. Every character has their own blend of special abilities and a powerful ultimate attack. Drizzt’s is to summon the panther Gwenhyvar, and apparently automatic crits, which allow the dual-wielder to make short work of nearly any enemy.
As you might expect you’ll battle your way through a monster manual’s worth of foes in each level before coming to a boss. We’ve seen so far a Giant, Wraith, and Beholder. Though there will certainly be a dragon forthcoming in the future.
The gameplay looks fast and frenetic, but it doesn’t feel like a reinvention of anything we haven’t seen before–but not every game needs to tread new ground, so long as the gameplay is great and the story gives you enough reason to kill a Beholder. Which honestly, it doesn’t take that much to do so.
At any rate, give the first few minutes of gameplay a spin at either of the videos linked in this article to check out the latest from the upcoming Dark Alliance.
Dark Alliance is due out June 22nd this year
