Sacred 2 Previews
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Though there will be multiple playable races in Sacred 2, we've been limited to seeing the Seraphim so far. These winged ladies are the eldest creatures in Ancaria, and lean toward the side of benevolence, though in recent times their good nature has begun to wane. Their appearance on screen has some elements of typical high fantasy mixed in with a technological influence. While they can wield sword and shield and don cloth cloaks, their metallic armor sets look like were created for some science fiction story set hundreds of years in the future. This is particularly true of some of the more advanced Seraphim armor, which give the character model the appearance of having turned into a robot, complete with facial visor and all sorts of electric blue power surges. In addition to switching up the visual styles of the body's plating, the Seraphim's various armor sets will alter change their wing designs into a variety of glowing blue permutations.
And an excerpt from the article at Shacknews:
As far as the game's combat systems go, different aspects of them will be customizable in different ways. For example, an archer will have access to arrows with different properties--some arrows are lighter, while others are fire-enchanted, and so on. Players can also combine individual spells to create new effects. For the most part, these tend to be fairly intuitive: combining a fireball spell with a storm spell creates an impressive firestorm. Obviously, not all combinations make sense--trying to combine that fire spell with a water spell is likely to just fizzle--but Ascaron noted that there are a significant number of matchups represented in the game.
