Severance: Blade of Darkness is a third-person action game that puts a strong emphasis on violence, blood and gore. For an example, you can hack off creature's arms or legs and then pick them up and wield them as weapons :) Pretty cool isn't it? Anyhow Severance: Blade of Darkness is like many other third-person action games, you fighting your way through stunningly natural levels while hunting for keys or levers or other things that function as keys or levers. But as you progress through the game your character will develop thanks to some fairly rudimentary role-playing elements - slaughtering your foes will earn you experience points, and experience points mean prizes! Every time you go up a level your character will gain more stamina (attacks costs you stamina) and hit points, allowing them to hold their own in battle for longer. You can choose from four different characters : Sargon is an armored knight, best suited to one-handed swords, maces and a shield, Tukaram is a half-naked barbarian who prefers two-handed weapons and no shield, Naglfar is an unsavoury looking dwarf who likes bludgeoning weapons like hammers and axes and Zoe is the only female character. This Amazon likes ranged weapons like bows and spears and she is the fastest character. In addition each character has a different scenario to explore, that makes game more various. Severance: Blade of Darkness includes more than 16 different realistic outdoor/indoor environments: frozen landscape, desert, Arabic Palaces, Hindu Temples, volcanoes, Lost Island, mines, 100 different weapons: sword, axes, spears, bows, shields, magic weapons, up to 25 different races of enemies: orks, trolls, golems, demons, skeletons and around 100 puzzles and traps combining physics, hydraulic systems, arrows, fire, stone balls.. so I bet you won't bored. The game graphics are excellent done (though makers did graphics two and a half years ago). All four player characters are superbly realized, each has several animations depicting various manners of death. These range from decapitation to amputation and excessive blood loss. The game has some of the most realistic lighting models that I've seen to date. The sunlight looks like real sunlight. The real time lighting of torches allow for the casting of shadows and more ambiance. Also the sound effects in the game are well produced and suitably scary. Because game includes so many weapons (over 100), the combat controls will take a bit of time to master. I strongly recommend you to play tutorial first. Severance: Blade of Darkness provides many hours of gameplay, and dozens of puzzles to solve. However don't expect much from multiplayer, the game does support TCP/IP networking, but not Internet play. Multiplayer has only a deathmatch style Arena mode. Download playable demo (101MB).