Eragon Hands-on

August 23rd, 2006, 01:15 Posted By: wraggster

Heres an excerpt:

Making its way from text to both the big screen and most every gaming platform known to man this winter is Eragon, young author Christopher Paolini's first entry in his Inheritance trilogy. Veteran developer Stormfront Studios, best known for its work on The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, has drawn from its hack-and-slash experience to bring the game to most of these platforms, but it turns out that the PSP version of the franchise will be its own beast entirely.

Rather than relying on swordplay that harkens back to The Two Towers, the PSP take on Eragon will focus on the world's dragons, making for some of an action-based flight game. Like the other titles, the game will still follow the plot of the movie, though we're told that this title was designed as a multiplayer-centric game from the beginning.

Featuring nine different game types, including Deathmatch, Capture the Flag and more, this is a highly arena-based flight game. Maps have been created in classic tournament-style manners, be they wide-open, circular or whatever, to make for dynamic competition environments. For example, one of the maps that we played centers on a small castle in an open field surrounded by mountains, with a cave running in and out of a mountainside in that acts as a makeshift room.

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