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Titan Quest For Xbox One Review

Check out our review of Titan Quest for Xbox One. Slay mythical creatures as you level up and create unique character classes via the Mastery system. Gain epic loot and defeat Titans across Ancient Greece, Egypt, and Asia.

Titan Quest is a fantastic isometric, action RPG but the experience is marred by a lackluster port to home consoles. Embark on an epic journey to conquer all the Titans across Ancient Greece, Egypt, and Asia. Enjoy new textures and small changes that take advantage of current-gen hardware plus a revamped UI for console play.

Bring Back The Days of Yore

Titan Quest may be an old game by 2018 standards but it is expertly crafted with amazingly deep RPG systems. The gameplay is similar to Diablo 2 or Path of Exiles regarding combat and character progression. Players can customize and create a powerful warrior, mage, or a combination of both with all the Mastery system.

Titan Quest is a beautiful game with updated textures that are impressive. The game looked amazing at the time of its release but the graphical update takes it a step further with a wide variety of color palettes. Ancient Greece looks amazing and the details on the monsters are impressive. You’ll have time to explore every area in the world as you slay several mythical creatures from famous mythological tales. The environments also include hidden areas that reward players with chances of obtaining loot or rare monsters with high-end loot tables.

The main story is lengthy and spread across several acts with a text-based quest system. Each quest and side quest NPC is voiced and weave a tale about essential tasks or monsters to be aware of. The main story quests have you traveling to your next point while side quests within each town can lead to additional rewards like experience, skill points, items, and more. Most quests require retrieving an item in hidden locations or slaying a certain monster. The lore is deep and effectively portrays famous characters, gods, or monsters based on ancient myths. Other than Sony’s God of War and Microsoft’s Ryse: Son of Rome, it is refreshing that Titan Quest’s aesthetics create an immersive experience but sadly bugs and weird design decisions make for a less-than-stellar port.

Let’s Not Port Here

Titan Quest touts enhanced graphics and a customized UI for consoles but only half of those promises are fully realized. While the environments are amazing, there are noticeable bugs when traveling the game’s vast world, like texture pop-ins. There have been several times that the environmental textures would not load and all you see is the grey block framework of the game. Hitboxes become noticeable both on your character and enemies alike. During my playthrough, I could see a red hitbox on top of my character to signify a bleeding status effect. On another occasion, Wraiths that appear from the ground would show light blue hitboxes on the surface before they even appeared! These graphical bugs happen enough that it begs the question: was Titan Quest was properly optimized for current gen hardware? These bugs are annoying but nothing in comparison to the “unique console UI” changes that were made. One of them is the targeting system when attacking several monsters at once.

The targeting system is terrible which creates a constant battle for control of your character actions. Several times I would aim my targeting cone to the beast I wanted to slay, only to keep hitting the same monster that started the fight. When incoming monsters come into range the game decides to quickly target those new oncoming monsters instead of finishing off the ones I was already in combat with. This forced me to play at a slower pace by trying to pick off a few groups at a time because switching targets was almost impossible. Combat should not be a frustrating experience but alas this Titan Quest port doesn’t live up to the seamless gameplay of the PC port.

The game added some brand new menus that are suitable for console play but some menus are straight ports of the PC UI. Keeping the original PC UI creates a unique problem for the console port. By keeping the menus the same as the PC version, the text is almost unreadable since it is not adjusting for the fact that console players play on their televisions instead of a PC monitor. This is the most disappointing aspect of the game and the developers did not add an option to increase the font size. It’s almost impossible to play on the couch like most console players without having to strain your eyes.

Titan Quest is a great game, but these problems are noticeable every time you sit down to play. Currently, Titan Quest on consoles is the worst way to play such a fantastic game but hopefully, the developers can patch these problems down the road.

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Summary

Titan Quest is an amazing game with beautiful environments and a great massive world set in Ancient times. Players can create unique and powerful classes via the Mastery system and plenty of monsters to slay for epic loot. Sadly, the console port doesn’t stack up to its PC counterpart.

Overall
65%
65%

Pros

  • Amazing Textures
  • Deep RPG Systems
  • Greek Mythology and Monsters

Cons

  • Tiny Text
  • Graphical Bugs
  • Bad Targeting System
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