It's about time someone took a shot at the Titan Quest expansion, Immortal Throne, but I'm kinda pressed for time. Long story short, it's still the same game, and the stark contrast between melee and magic players is still there. They don't party well, at all. The magicuser will be clearing screenfulls of stuff, so by the time his companion has finished the frontliners engaging him, the rest of the monster camp will already have been levelled. To the ground.

Seriously. I fired up a dream/rogue character and went the trance/traps route - it was a piece of cake, tossing traps and kiting monsters around them. My friend was trying to play dream/hunting but got disgusted by how... efficiently... I left her without anything to attack. Now imagine a storm user partnered with, say, a warfare build.

Although I realised there are some problems with the issues I raised in my original Titan Quest review, the main gameplay complaint still stands - killing speed is imbalanced. I've not heard too much from the modding community; strange, since the game ships with an editor. You'd think the action RPG mechanics fanatics would've tinkered with it since day one. As it is, all you can see on the mod boards are just skins, a bunch of lame monty-haul type lootfests, and a couple of game, not gameplay, tools.

Edit: I surprised myself by actually managing a review within 5 minutes. It's rather short though (by my long-winded standards). Here it is:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/titanquestexpansion/player_review.html?id=435147

I don't normally listen to System Of A Down, but Chop Suey is a suitable song for certain moods. It's a bit weird with female vocalists though. You can transition it into Kamelot's Karma, but again, this is a song best with guys on the vocals. Sometimes it's annoying to acknowledge that our best impressions are of idols singers (except that we actually possess musical talent), but what the hell - can't have everything.

It's gonna be rather quiet on this front; Imperian is eating up my free time, big time. It's like the good ol' MUDding days when I was younger, heh. Also on the plus side I can play anything I like on winamp so I'm not forced to listen to a crap gametrack. Don't get me wrong, I like game music, I'd say it's a staple, even, but many games have lacklustre music - to put it mildly.