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IGN has posted a new preview of Larian Studios' upcoming Divinity: Original Sin, a new role playing game for Mac and Windows set in the world of the Divinity Series. The article includes discussion of the game's unique cooperative conversation options, the depth of its combat options, and Larian's plans to provide a full featured editor.

This kind of incredibly in depth development extends to the combat, too. Despite being turn based, it’s impressively fluid, based heavily around use and manipulation of the elements. Cast a rain spell and you’ll create a puddle that can then be electrified, evaporated or frozen, each with their own appropriate effects. There’s even the threat of slipping up on the ice, knocking yourself over for a turn. Despite being relatively simple with its elements, it’s obvious that there is that breadth of experimentation that made, say, Magicka so successful.

All this leaves Larian with an incredibly versatile engine that allows players to pick up and move around anything that isn’t nailed down, creating make shift barricades in the middle of a fight, or just shoving anything grabbable into their inventory. Gamers are hoarders, after all. Couple that with a game that recognises that hoarding instinct, and plays off it, and suddenly you feel awfully involved in this world. Like you’re a part of it. And that’s why we play RPGs, after all. To lose ourselves to a world.

IGN: Divinity Original Sin Preview

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