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(Originally posted by Darien)

GameSpot has posted their updated impressions of PoR2, and they promise a full review once the game is released. Here's an excerpt:

Ruins of Myth Drannor looks much like the last build of the game we saw at this year's GenCon. The game lets you build an adventuring party of up to four characters, though it also lets you add up to two additional non-player characters to your party for a sum total of six. Ruins of Myth Drannor comes with several pregenerated characters, but you can create your own custom characters using the 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons rules, including barbarians, monks, and characters of the powerful half-orc race.

Ruins of Myth Drannor uses a handful of hotkeys and a nested system of menus, presumably in the interest of keeping the screen as uncluttered as possible. As a result, many of the game options are split between menus and hotkeys scattered across the keyboard. However, for many options, like choosing which physical attacks or which spell you'd like to use next in combat, you have to rely on your mouse to scroll through each menu. We poked around the game's manual and help documents and learned that you can at least make custom hotkeys by pressing Ctrl+F2-F12 to assign shortcuts to a character's last action, which helps somewhat.

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