Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Divinity 2: Ego Draconis is already out in Germany and some other EU countries, and is due for UK release later this month (apparently) and US release in January. I have to admit I’ve not been following it, but the claim that “The main character will also have access to their own personal tower where they can create their own creature from monsters they’ve killed” intrigues and vaguely horrifies me. European reviews seem to suggest the free-roaming RPG is actually not bad, albeit rather slow. I imagine we’ll take a look for ourselves when the UK edition turns up. In the meantime, go and examine these flickering images below. (The dragon-riding is looking a bit familiar.)
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Fans of trad RPGs will be discussing inventories intensely at this news, I suspect. Larian, creators of the awesomely-terribly named Divine Divinity and the less-terribly named Beyond Divinity have confirmed their sequel will be out in “Q2 2009″ and revealed the first load of screenshots. They’re swinging back towards terrible names though – this one’s called “Divinity 2: Ego Draconis”. C&VG leak out a few other details about quest structure and the return of composer Kirill Pokrovsky before getting on with the serious business of a mass of screenshots. Our prediction: we’ll be making a load of jokes about kobolds.