Dawn of Magic

This RPG seems to miss the mark in just about every way.

If the developers had spent as much time on the rest of the game as they did on the magic system then we may have had a fun game on our hands, as it is we have a game whose single redeeming feature isn't enough to hide the underdeveloped, uninspired and frankly boring nature of the rest. Even playing as the baker's wife can't fix that.

In short, just don't. [Oct 2007, p.64]

Tweaks like the character mutations based on what spells you’ve learned are neat, but don’t have an impact on the gameplay itself. Lack of co-op is a disappointment.

It's choked by its own clumsy presentation and inability to develop its own ideas. [July 2007, p.83]

Some nice ideas, but a mere damp squib as a spellbinder. [July 2007, p.79]

Oddly, the problem is that, it feels too much like a classic hack-'n'-slash RPG. Games like Diablo and Baldur's Gate used the same formula over 10 years ago, and they did it better.

Topping off all of this mediocrity is the weird multiplayer, containing modes (free-for-all deathmatch, capture the flag, etc.) not normally found in this type of game. In theory the game should be more unique for these options, but there's a reason hack-and-slash RPGs avoid this style of multiplayer: it doesn't work well in the engine.