![]() I had a ton of fun unlocking new skills and figuring out which abilities best suited my playstyle when up against the endless horde of monstrosities I faced at every turn. Skills can then be quick-assigned to any controller button for instant access. Points gained from level ups can be used to either increase a skill or invest in the mastery tree to unlock new skills. Soldier, Nightblade, Occultist, Shaman, Inquisitor, Demolitionist, Arcanist, Oathkeeper, and Necromancer are all available as starting classes, which you can then further customize via mastery skill trees which unlock as you progress. Years of updates and DLC have allowed Grim Dawn to expand into a game in which nearly every player will find a class/mastery that will suit their playstyle easily. While the overarching story never fully grabbed my attention, it certainly set up a world in which I gladly spent well over 50 hours inhabiting with many more still to go. Its world and inhabitants are incredibly fleshed out, featuring diverse terrains, tons of NPCs with distinct personalities to help, fight, or learn from, and a wide variety of enemies to take down. Grim Dawn: Definitive Edition is impressive. I’m a huge fan of the ARPG genre, with Diablo III, Victor Vran, Nine Parchments, Baulder’s Gate: Dark Alliance, and more comprising more hours of playtime than I’d like to admit, yet I had never played Grim Dawn until the release of the definitive edition on the Xbox One - and now I am kicking myself for waiting so long to check it out. So how does Grim Dawn hold up now, nearly five years after its official release and almost 8 years since it’s alpha days? In a word: fantastic. First released in an alpha state in 2013, the game officially launched on PC in 2016 to rave reviews from both critics and players alike due to its blend of ARPG elements and enormous open world which provided players with hundreds of hours of finely tuned gameplay. Rogue-Like Dungeons - Descend into locked dungeons that require a crafted key, where enemy levels increase as you progress and the only way out is to win or die trying.Grim Dawn has come a long way since its humble Kickstarter origins.Earn unique rewards and mountains of loot in this infinite mode! Enter the Shattered Realm – Face off against powerful foes in ever more challenging shards of an unstable reality.Reclaim Skill Points - The ability to pay to reclaim points alleviates the fear and frustration of having to make early, uninformed skill choices that could permanently gimp a character.Transform Your Appearance – Use the Illusionist NPC to customize the appearance of your equipment and create your ideal look!.Recipe Based Crafting - Collect over hundreds of recipes that allow you to combine salvaged components and items into unique crafted items.Use them to unlock bonuses and powerful secondary effects for class skills from a massive constellation map. Devotion - Earn devotion points by restoring defiled shirines hidden throughout the world.Rune Augments – Apply enchantments to your Medals, unlocking powerful mobility skills available to all classes, including Leap, Teleport, Charge and more.Hundreds of Item Skills - Augment your class build with hundreds of unique skills granted by items and equipment add-ons.Plus over 20,000 possible magical affix combinations and over 200 rare affixes. Collect thousands of Items - Common, magical, rare, epic and legendary classes of loot.Dual Class - Combine any of nine distinct classes with over 25 skills and modifiers each to create your own custom character class.Rebuild the World - Help human enclaves survive and flourish by securing vital necessities, rebuilding structures and rescuing survivors who can then lend their services to your cause.Strangers on the road, desperate families and even entire villages may live or perish based on your actions. ![]() Quests with Choice and Consequence - Your decisions have significant impact on the world.Smash in doors and fight house to house, leaving a path of demolished furniture in your wake. Fast-paced Visceral Combat - Enemy blood spatters, ragdoll physics and satisfying enemy death effects.The Full Experience - This collection contains Grim Dawn and two epic expansion packs for a total of 7 story based chapters and hundreds of unique quests.
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