Although Titan quest does not offer innovation, it effectively re-creates the classic, addictive Diablo II style gamplay
Game play: The game play is simply excellent. The game utilizes the traditional class system with skill trees, but with a few twists, in my opinion, Titan Quest implements a skill system better than any hack-n-slash game thus far. Having 8 different masteries, each character is allowed to choose two. They may place their skills accordingly and if they dislike their choices, they are always allowed to re-allocate skill points with a minimal fee. This is great. Diablo II emphasized this perfectionist mentality where someone could not place a skill until level 18, 24, or even 30. Titan Quest's system allows for players to have a more enjoyable experience throughout their character's adventure. Also, rather than choosing to have skills that simply are an upgraded version of a previous skill, resulting in skills becoming obsolete after 5 or 6 levels and wasted skills points, Titan Quest's higher level skills instead, oftentimes, function as upgrades of their predecessors, thus, not rendering previous skills useless.
The actual fighting system to very solid. It works using a system of clicking and hotkeys - foolproof.
Titan Quest has the same addictive feeling of a search for treasure just like Diablo II did. If you loved this aspect of Diablo, you will love it equally in Titan Quest. I do not think there are as many items in Titan Quest as there were in Diablo II, granted I may be wrong, but then again, Diablo II had several years of additions where items were constantly added. Titan Quest may have extra items added as well.
Diablo II did manage to create an online community that will be impossible for Titan Quest to ever begin. Using protected servers, players could trade, level, play, and experience the addiction of Diablo II with one another, online, on secure servers (meaning safe from hackers). This is not the case in Titan Quest. Offline characters can be played online and chances are that there will be a lot of hackers. Also, many many players have been experiencing multiplayer bugs when trying to connect to the servers. Thankfully, the developers of Titan Quest are already working to fix this latter issue.
Graphics:
The graphics are sharp. They look great. Although my machine is only capable of supporting the lowest settings, the game still looks spectacular. On my brothers high-end computer, the game looks even better. There isn't much to complain about in terms of graphics.
Sound:
When I said that I had a lower-end machine before, I really meant it. My computer does not even meet the minimum specifications; and consequently, I am rarely allowed to hear the music. The voice acting is good. That I do hear. I have heard little clips of the sound track, and from what I have heard so far, it sounds great.
Value and Tilt:
Let's settle this at, it's a great game, but you are going to need one heck of a computer to run this game flawlessly. Many many many players have been experiencing bugs, crashes, corrupted save files, multiplayer connection issues, choppy frame rates, and everything else that accompanies a game lacking testing. However, the developers have been extremely responsive to player's pleas and are already working out most of the kinks. The weird thing is, none of these issues have been bad enough - and they are pretty bad in most people's eyes - to turn me away from playing this game. Anyways, who knows, you may be like my brother and me able to run he game flawlessly. If I were on the edge about buying this game, I would check up on its status in a week or so and see what people are saying about the patch. The game might be totally fixed by then, and if this is the case, and if if bugs were the only thing deterring you from buying this game in first place, then get out and buy it as soon as you can! You won't regret it.