Greedfall - Hands-off Demo Impressions

Much like Fallout 4, party members will like or dislike various actions or acts of omission by your character. Greedfall takes this a bit further; if you piss off one of your companions for too long, say by bashing the natives in front of Siora, she'll leave your party forever and become your enemy.

Greedfall begins with a lengthy prologue, sort of like a massive tutorial island. There are all sorts of quests to be getting on with and for the completionists out there, you'll need to do every quest available first time around. You see, Greedfall isn't a true open-world game - once you leave the Serene, you can never go back.

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joxer said:

GreedFall Hands-Off Preview - wccftech

GreedFall Interview With Spiders CEO Jehanne Rousseau - wccftech

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Even though you’re taking on the role of one particular character, you will have a range of character customisation options at your disposal. Still, you are De Sardet, male or female, which enables a more personalised story. Fortunately, this still won’t take away from some of the options and personalisation you can achieve in modern day RPG’s, there are a wealth of options at your disposal in the new world of Teer Frade. Is it wrong that all I see is “Free Trade” when I look at that name?

Your personalisation will be both in character development as well as the story. On the character front, the options are said to be extensive. The skill tree was shown during the hands-off demo and it was wide and sprawling, to say the least, with you having the ability to go down whatever path you would like, be this weapon skill related, abilities like lockpicking or science, even improving on your dialogue options. The latter of these will look to particularly influence the development of your story.

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While I didn’t get to go hands-on with GreedFall, the team at Spidersgave us an in-depth look at gameplay and story during Focus Home Interactive’s What’s Next event. GreedFall is an action RPG set during a fantasy version of the 17th century. In it, you’ll be rounding up mercenaries, slaying monsters, exploring, and (hopefully) sweet talking your way out of potentially violent situations.

It’s definitely an ambitious project for the developers at Spiders, as they’re a much smaller team than you’d expect to be be working on something like this. GreedFall looks like Assassin’s Creed meets Dragon Age, with the way you’ll be exploring and gathering party members.

It’s hard to expect the same level of polish as the aforementioned AAA titles, but since there is still time left for development, my hopes are that it will come close. Either way, it seems like it will be a fun time.

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It would be easy to compare Greedfall to the likes of fantasy RPG giants, but it seems to be distinctly its own thing. It takes the best elements of the genre such as branching dialogue, faction and combat mechanics and even romance options to create a 35-hour strong adventure that could rival any triple-A production.

While it remains to be seen whether it can plug the fantasy gap in the market, Greedfall is an ambitious endeavour by a development team comprising of around 40 people, though you would think it was developed by a much larger crew.

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