Characters can now reach a level of 80 giving you some room to grow. They are a nice combination of previous characters and offer some nice new abilities to play around with such as the Shaman's growth ability which will double your character's size. The Iksar Shaman is a spellcaster than can wear full armor and use most weapons. They specialize in throwing axes and look like tigers. The Val Shir Beserker is a warrior type with some range abilities. Two new classes are included in the game. Even then they will just try to over power you rather than being creative. With the Gauntlet type action, the enemy AI isn’t very smart so you won’t find challenging monsters here except for the boss characters. It’s a great mindless game and you’ll get some enjoyment in finding rare equipment that increases your character’s damage or protection. Along the way you’ll gain experience and gather equipment to better your character. I know there were a few times I gated and saved and forgot if I was coming from a gate or if I was there at the save point via walking.Ĭhampions: Return to Arms continues the theme of the previous games with the traditional dungeon crawl, kill all monsters, finish some little quests, and kill the main bosses. The first time it will show you how many you have but you’ll get a gate back text that’s a little less confusing now. Another minor change is the text is different when you use a gate scroll. While it might not be significant, it does save a lot of time and keeping you from going into the inventory screen a few times. For starters in the inventory screen when you sell equipment, you can now actually equip items without having to leave the screen and go into the player inventory screen. There are a few annoyances that were fixed though. The game isn’t technically leaps and bounds over Norrath. As with every fantasy game, there’s more evil to dispatch so it’s time for you to continue your quest. You've just killed Innorruuk and rescued Firiona so the game is a pretty quick continuation of the first one.
You'll start out in the Planes of Existance this time standing in front of Firiona Vie, the blue dressed elf that's very prominent in many Everquest advertisements. So here we are, with the sequel and while it isn’t innovative, it’s still a good game.Ĭhampions: Return to Arms starts out where Norrath left off. When the sequel was announced, I was very excited and I even headed straight for the demo at E3 last year rather than viewing Everquest 2 first.
I’ve spent a lot of time with friends playing the game and enjoyed the experience immensely. I’ve always been a big Gauntlet fan and with Norrath, you had a Gauntlet like game with some RPG elements and a great online aspect. Champions of Norrath is one of my favorite PS2 games.
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