Magicka

[Dookie]

4 player RPG coop
9.99$ on steam
trailer and details on: http://store.steampowered.com/app/42910/ or www.magicka.se



Magicka came out 26.01.2010 pretty buggy and got patched up right away to make it somewhat worse (violet screen of death, random game shutdowns, loss of connections).
With that being said, there should be a patch every 24h to deal with new problems and hopefully will be a complete game by the end of the week.

Now to the game itself. Your character is a mage in a coloured cape that has 2 changeable items, the staff and melee weapon. No inventory, no gold, nothing else. Magicka is a 1-4 player cooperative RPG game that allows players to face the monsters and combine their spells together for greater effect. You can combine up to 5 elements from a total of 8 to cast different spells on monsters, yourself, your weapon or AOE.

Big part of the game is Friendly Fire and quite frankly most of player deaths result from some other player killing you. You can combine elements that explode when they cross and wipe out the whole team. Friendly fire and massive spells from other players on your screen create almost all the fun in the game, when 4 clueless guys are trying to not kill one another and not screw up the spell combinations.

We got to about a half of the game with Shiftey before the game started crashing at a location which was said to be faulty by the game designers and will be patched up shortly (aparently). This game has a real potentional, if there was an in-build voice chat in the game it would be alot easier to play with strangers. Hopefully some content patches and additions will be out later.

I'll probably add some more when we get to finish the game.

Edit: The game gets boring pretty quick and I don't see any way how it could be repleyable, once you're through the campaign you're pretty much done. Can do occasional games with friends but nothing exciting. 

Here's people in the guild who have the game as far as I know:

Dookie
Shiftey
Daekesh
Chippen
Morbid

And this is the game impression:

[Daekesh]

It is GREAT fun "accidentally" killing your fellow bathrobe wearers!  The game is awesome, despite it's obvious problems.  Recommend everyone try it!

[delling]

Sounds cool

[Hugman]

Sounds a bit like Gauntlet.

[Morbid]

I haz magicka also, but so far it doesn't run very smooth.

But what i've done and seen so far it's great, especially as coop.

[Shiftey]

Anybody soloed this game? Cause I got to chapter right after you defeat Death.... and right at the start I am stuck cause the mobs are really hard when they are alone but the moment two of them arrive, it's downright impossible

[Rucious]

Shiftey!! When will you finish?? come back to raid pls!

[Shiftey]

Well you cant kill those mobs, but you can use teleport to just skip most of the entire chapter well that works...

So I managed to finish Magicka on my own, it's freaking hard alone, but the trusty M60 is just awesome and got me through it

[Rucious]

That's not an answer to my question, but thanks for letting us know!

[Veilas]

Just go the game off steam! It's awesome!

[Veilas]

[Morbid]

lol, pls tell me it's a April fools day joke

[Kawe / Dave]

It's for real