About This Game Your goal is to confront and destroy the Demon and locate the lost Crown of Peace. You will roam your once-beautiful land, routing out the Demon's hateful minions, solving the mysteries of the fortress, and moving ever closer to your final encounter with the Demon. Summon your courage and raise your sword for a fight to the death. Features: 7 Levels: At the Gates; Underdark, a cavern realm of molten lava; Chambers of Torment, the dungeons of the fortress; The Commoners Quarters; Garden of Eternity, the fortress courtyard; The King's Quarters; The Dragon's Den Wage war with swords, axes, magic, and explosive weaponry through nine quests, seven levels and five sublevels of the ultimate hack-and-slash action. Fight for your clan and your world as one of four unique characters each possessing distinct skills and abilities. Casts spells, unravel puzzles, interact with extraordinary characters and destroy evil incarnate. When you launch Clans, you will see a window pop up: "Please insert the CLANS CD! Hit OK when done, or Cancel if you don't want any music." This is an olde school Diablo type game, back in the days when games were run with the CD inserted. The interesting feature of this particular game is that the contents of the original CD contained only the music for the game. What this means is that you can put ANY music CD into your CD player and the game will play it! If you don’t want to have music playing, simply hit ‘Cancel’ and the game will launch. Have fun! The original CD audio has been added to the game files. If you want to hear the original soundtrack, you will have to navigate to your Steam directory where the game files for Clans reside. You will find a folder called "Clans music", and the audio files are in there. Then you will have to burn an audio CD and put into your CD drive. 7aa9394dea Title: ClansGenre: RPGDeveloper:ComputerhousePublisher:Strategy FirstRelease Date: 11 Aug, 1999 Clans Download] [Keygen] This game is...kinda awful. I feel I gave it a fair shot - some old games take some getting used to - but it just didn't grow on me.When you start the game, there's a message that asks you to put in the game CD. Seeing as how this is a digital copy, that is not possible to do, so you're just kind've left without music. While it doesn't bother me personally as the music is probably awful, this may be a major turn-off for other players and doesn't start the "epic adventure" out very well.The enviroment is made up of static rooms - large red arrows indicate where the next rooms are. You can activate a map to see all of the rooms and areas you may not have explored yet, but it pretty much covers the screen, and I didn't find any way to change the opacity, size or location of the map. While I'm fine with doing things the old fashioned way and just remembering what rooms are important, it's really inconvenient, and other games in the genre have executed a simple map function much better than this.The art isn't bad, but it is extremely similar to....well, Diablo. It's mediocre, doesn't stand out in the genre.The one-liners....mein gott. They're cheesey and annoying. The story is thin, unimaginative.The loot is what I'd call few and far between. You can walk into a room, fight 5 skeletons guarding a chest, and open the chest to find nothing inside. You sometimes run into an old woman that gives you mana\/health pots and a wizard (who you save at the very beginning) that hands you some special item once in a blue moon.There's no skill set or any real system for character progression. You can rarely get better armor, weapons, and some consumables that give you stats. Because this system is rather insufficient, repeatedly getting empty rooms full of enemies doesn't get easier. I'm not saying we should get rid of challenging fights, but the difficulty curve is a little steep.If they intended this to be a semi-successful knock-off to fill in the space between Diablo and Diablo II, it failed. There are other games in this genre that have aged better - don't spend your money on this one.. 10/10Would not purchase.Not sure why I did.Buy it.. The most underestimated game ever. This game was heavily criticized back in 1999 for being poor Diablo 1 clone, but that only means shame for these critics. Because this game is nothing like Diablo. Now a days I can compare this game most with Legend of Grimrock 1. In Clans you travel through series of small square rooms, grouped into several big locations, killing mosters, that give you no experience. In fact all the character leveling thing is done via collecting different equipment and potions. Very, very rarely they can be dropped by defeated monsters, but most of the time they are hidden in these rooms. Sometimes you can find a merchant, but they are very rare, and each carries only 4 items, which is not much. To buy stuff you need money, which is hiddent in the rooms as well. Selling loot won't make you rich, so all the money you find matters.Also Clans has strong adventure element. You will find quest items and solve different kind of puzzles to move on, some of them are necessary to finish the game, some are not. So most of the time you'll be cleaning rooms of monsters and carefully investigating them one by one, solving puzzles in due time. This unites this game with LoG, as well as with early Resident Evil game.And Clans is amazing for investigating. IMO it has the best dark medieval fantasy atmosphere of all the games ever. Dark woods, dark dungeons, dark villages, dark castles - all of these came from the best fantay books and RPG games. Also the game has a sensible disturbed feeling to it - there is no place you can call home (like Tristram in Diablo), there is no guaranty that you'll find a shopkeeper soon to sell stuff or buy some potins if you ran out of them, there is even no pause in the game! Most NPCs can be found in pretty odd places saing odd things, there are no dialog options and your hero stays silent. All these aspects of gameplay make me think of Clans as a grandmother of Dark Souls. Also Clans has really pleasant graphics (pre-rendered isometric games almost don't age) and amazing minimalistic rhythm-based soundtrack (it's won't automatically play in Steam version, but you can always switch songs by hand in any music player in parallel to the game. BTW, music for the first game level is Track 5, all the tracks before are for the intros and menu), and that makes the game feel absolutely superb.There are some noticable flaws in the game like too many empty rooms and the battle system. The battle system looks like this: if you use magic you devastate enemies until you're out of mana, then you stay in the run (or wait calmly if no one is cahsing you) until your mana replenish, and then repeat. This is pretty slow, but pretty safe way of playing. But if you have good magic and low healt, enemies will hit you really, really hard. If you use melee, then it's just luck of who will die first. Except for health potins and equipment, there's no way you can manually influence the melee combat. All this makes combats feel a bit idiotic (especially on early stages of the game), but, at the same time, the fact that there's no chance to avoid damage in melee combat only strengthens the disturbing atmosphere of Clans.Though the game is old, and a lot of younger gamers probably won't like it, I would recommend it to every dark fantasy lover and to every lover of dungeon crawles like Legend of Grimrock. For me it's 11 out of 10.. Clans is a fantasy action/adventure game in which you assume the role of one of four champions selected by your Clan to restore peace and order to the world. Your goal is to confront and destroy the Demon and locate the lost Crown of Peace. You will roam your once-beautiful land, routing out the Demon's hateful minions, solving the mysteries of the fortress, and moving ever closer to your final encounter with the Demon.. Clans is an old school hack and slash action game similar to Diablo. After playing for a while i managed to complie a list of good and bad points which i shall list, i shall point out the flaws and leave the good bits to the end to leave this review on a happier note;Their doesn't seem to be any stratergy involved. There are three warrior classes and the "elf" class which is the wizard. and while i enjoy the idea of different fighting styles, there is the Warrior, the Barbarian and the dwarf, which is less cliche more boring when selecting a character, people who prefere long range only have one class and that is the elf class. The lack of items. The game seems to try and make it out that there is challenge when really its just unfair, you get two lives and they go quickly as you get surrounded by more and more enemies, i got down to about half health when i encontered a mini boss. I thought he was some form of boss as he was hiding behind the statue so he got the first hit, and he did the most damage out of all the other monsters I fought, this lead to my death and i respawned and killed him, this rbought be down to four hit points left and he dropped a potion which brought me up to 11, i was thent asked to clear out a cottage (so my first real quest) where i found myself swarmed with no healing of any kind and i died again losing my last life and going back to the main menu.The controls. The controls for moving are straight forward but attacking is the right mouse button which is odd and i was not told this so i had taken a few hits before i figured it out, there are interactable items within the game but there is little to no clue apart from a slight light up of the item. weapons do not have any sort of indication as to whats better or what it requires, there is an axe for example which requires two hands, i didnt know this untill i saw that i didn't have my sheild equipped anymore. There are also items in the game world that dont seem to have any use, left clicking (which is used for moving and item management) does nothing and the right mouse button swings your weapon. the writing: this is a minor point but the spelling and wording could use some work it isnt bad but it doesnt scream "in your face bioware"Now onto the good points which im pleased to say, what this game does well it does -very- well so lets get started:Sound. The music and sound effects are brilliant and you get the right atmosphere that some games simply cannot achieve. Introduction. the opening introduction is fully voiced (and voiced quite well i will add) and gives a very retro feel which made me feel quite excited to play this game. Function. The game downlaoded quickly, had no problems getting it to run, and it ran smoothly with no obvious bugs or glitches, it seems this was a main focus of their time and it shows.so i have listed three bad points (not counting the spelling and writing becuase what do you expect from a hack and slash diablo clone?") and three good points so its time to give my final verdict.....I would -not- recommend this game on its own merits.. This game...This "thing" is something that boggles my mind. Is it a rogue-like? Is it a turn-based strategy game? Is it an RPG? What the hell is it trying to do? The gameplay is diablo-esque but less fun and the graphics are....strange, to say the least.This is a game from an era that belongs in the era it was made in.
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