Journey through four of the greatest mythologies ever as one of four great heroes: a mighty Norse Warrior, a fierce Greek Fighter, a powerful Egyptian Sorcerer or a skilled Aztec Shaman. Travel throughout the world battling hundreds of legendary and deadly enemies as you play a critical role in some of time's most monumental events. Endless possibilities ¿ Experience your adventure as one of four different mythological heroes each with fundamentally different strengths and combat styles. Worship different gods in order to gain access to more than 200 different skills. A powerful random level generator ensures that you never experience the same game twice. Create your legend your way ¿ Embark upon your quests solo or with your friends as part of a group. Challenge others in PvP mode inside a dedicated online arena or dice with death by taking part in one of the online challenges. Collect and exchange thousands of items, including 500 unique objects, such as Thor's Hammer and Achilles' Armor. Customize your weapons and armor by visiting the blacksmith's forge. Disassemble and rebuild weapons with new attributes and increase their magical powers with runes.

Having played all my favorite games to death (Diablo II, Dungeon Siege, Morrowind, Oblivion, Titan Quest) I was looking for something, anything, new to play. I was willing to give this game a chance even though the graphics are poor, the controls are pretty awful, enemy visibility is very bad, and there's a lot of grinding. The first evening I spent playing it I thought, "Well, OK, it's not all that fun, but it's not all that bad, either." The second evening, after I entered the game in town and tried to sell something to a merchant, it crashed. (I'm running Windows XP.) I restarted and got through that and continued fighting where I left off. It then crashed again, causing me to lose all progress. (You can't just save. You have to save and exit.) This was two crashes within half an hour. I decided this was now no fun at all and really not worth the irritation. I'm now back to playing one of my tried and true games until something else comes along. Don't waste your money.

This came with 2 other games in a pack. This was the worst of the 3.
Simple chop em up game with a few chores to do in between.
Field of play is small and you get attacked before you can do anything about it.
Became dull within the first screen. Never got past the 3rd mission because it was...dull. Didn't seem like it was worth even playing and I lost interest immediately.
Might be OK for a 4 year old, but I'd pass if I had the chance.

Loki is not a particularly original game. It is alot like Diablo 2 or Titan quest. There are lots of things to like about Loki. The action is fast paced. The graphics are also wonderful. The drive to improve your powers and equipment pushes you like in other action RPGS. Its true there aren't many good items to buy. However one can use ones money to improve items at the blacksmiths (you also need to money to break down items so that you have the materials to reinforce with) or to buy magic items to sacrafice to improve ones powers. I found I always could find a use for it.
However, Loki has some downsides. For one whoever wrote down the minimum requirements was VERY optimistic. The load sequences took forever on my old computer. On my new computer it runs well except when I summon creatures. So I just redistributed my points and play without summoned creatures. Also the character balance leaves something to wish for. If you're going to play the Aztec shaman, you'd better be pretty frustration resistant. The Mage and Barbarian both worked well for me. My biggest gripe with the game is that it should have been shorter and sweeter. You see the almost identical levels with almost identical monster 3 times in a row. Two times would have been fine and would have cut 50 hours down to 35 hours, but would have been much more fun.

I bought this game expecting a Diablo style hack & slash game. Which is sort of what Loki is like. The skill system is total garbage. Most of the skills are useless and the ones that might have been useful don't work well. For example there is a weapon enchant buff which causes your weapon to do extra elemental damage. Buff only lasts 30 seconds so you have to keep recasting.

The hotkeys are broken as well. You use the numbers on top of the keyboard to select the spell that will be attached to your right click. Potion keys are the number pad meaning you had to take your hand off the mouse to use a potion or move your left hand over to do it. Keys can be changed from what I looked but since I'm done dealing with the game after having only played for 2 days I didn't bother fussing with it.

The scaling of the spells with points is very weak. None of the spells seem to be able to hit more than one target. I played as a Norse character and my most used spell was charge because it would seem to hit 2-3 mobs as a fluke I'm sure they didn't intend it that way. I would get stuck on what would run into invisible rocks or something where I would have to walk around a bit to be able to attack certain mobs.

The worst part is the constant crashing. I'm running Vista so not sure if that's part of the issue but since the game seems to have been a flop the company doesn't seem to support it any more. There is a patch out but it didn't fix bugs I had looked up on their forum that had been known about for several patch builds.

The game seems to save every time you go to a loading screen. Which I think is part of the reason the load times seem kind of long. Though loading is when most of the crashes I have experienced have happened. Thankfully I didn't lose my spot most of the times. Last time though I used the teleport to go back to town because my small inventory was full and I couldn't pick up some of the good loot that had just fallen (orange items, so far the best I've seen) and the game crashed right as I clicked load. Didn't even get to the save state so I lost all the items that mobs had dropped as well as the time to clear a bunch of the annoying mobs that were in that area.

Some of the fights can be rough since potions work like in Diablo. They aren't instant refills but heal over time and have cool downs. So there is a skill where you can summon 2 wolves to eat the corpses of the mobs you've killed which in turn heals you. This is one of the few useful skills in the game.... Problem is every time the wolves are out the game will lock up.

Another issue that makes skills useless is they all have cool downs. ALL of them. There's no exception to this. So there are no skills you can just spam like in Diablo you have to keep switching between spells. Which is why I only use charge and regular attack.

Another issue in the game is the vendors and gold and the way you gain skill points. Instead of getting points per lvl like in a REAL hack & slash game you have a secondary exp bar. 25% of your gained exp goes to this reputation bar if you want to call it that. So that makes you lvl slower. I'm at the point now where I'm getting items that require me to be 5 lvls higher but because of this nerf to exp I am not high enough to wear them. The skill system has 3 tabs each for a different god. You can give magical items up in town as offerings to the gods to gain skill exp with the selected god. But you have to do each magical item individually so if you have 50 magic items in your bag your going to be doing a lot of clicking.

At least with vendoring you can just right click all the stuff you want to sell in your inventory and it will put it in your kiosk then you just have to click sell all. But this offering system is just dumb.

Despite the skills being useless and the wolf summoning spell crashing the game I would have kept playing this game since I got tired of paying for World of Warcraft. But the crashing between loading is just getting tiresome. I expect a game I paid for to at least work..... Even if it was only $8 Im sure it was around $40 when it was released and those poor people who bought it got robbed.

So if your looking for something to tide you over for the next 3-4 years till diablo3 is out.... Keep looking.

This is the first game of this kind I have played. I spent many hours playing this game and then it messed up just as I was about to complete the last quest in Mortal mode. I refuse to play through it all again in hopes that I could make it through this time. My boyfriend also had multiple problems with this game and had to start over and rebuild his character several times. We also had issues with the game frequently crashing. I really enjoyed the game itself, especially that I was able to play with him over our LAN, but the glitches ruined it for me. I am looking for a similar game (simple, point and click, that can be played via LAN) without all these problems.