Titan Quest also has a good socketing system in place for weapons and armor. Tokens can be applied directly to weapons or armor to reap their benefits immediately, or you can save them and combine them with similar tokens to bestow even greater bonuses when they’re applied to the weapon or armor. The portal system also works well, giving you a portal stone that opens unlimited portals to any of the towns that you’ve visited in the past. This is pretty much a necessity because the game gives drops out the you-know-what and you’ll constantly need to make trips back to your local merchant to unload your booty. Inventory management is one of the game’s primary weak spots as it does not automatically arrange items in the grid that serves as your inventory, forcing you to spend an inordinate amount of time arranging and rearranging the items that you’re carrying.

Titan Quest’s other major shortcoming is its bare-bone multiplayer support. Up to six players can engage in co-op play through the game’s storyline and that’s about it. Even though the multiplayer falls short, the game experience can be extended by creating new levels through Titan Quest’s extensive world editor. You can create entire levels from scratch and hopefully this tool will lead to an active mod community that will generate plenty of new content for the game.

The game’s graphics warrant a mention as they are pretty good. The game’s world is alive with details right down to blades of grass that bend away as you walk though the brush. It does have a tendency to occasionally experience slow-downs when a lot of enemies are on-screen though, even on powerful computers.

Overall Titan Quest is definitely recommendable to those looking for the simple pleasure of slaying thousands of monsters with their mouse. In depth and complex it is not, but it still can be fun and addicting in its own right.

In The End, This Game Hath Been Rated: 82%. Titan Quest is Diablo 2 in a toga.

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