![]() ![]() These characters belong to the traditional AD&D classes of fighter, mage, thief, and cleric. Various fairly exotic characters - including a talking floating skull and a winged succubus who runs a "spiritual" brothel - will join the hero on his quest. The outcome of the final quest and thus the ending of the entire game also depend on the way the player has been shaping The Nameless One during the journey. Dialogue options may become available only if the corresponding character parameter is sufficiently high. Abilities that are not exclusive to combat, such as Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma, play a special role in the development and outcome of many of the game's conversations and quests. The game features the party-based, "real-time-with-pause" Infinity Engine combat system, which was previously employed in Baldur's Gate.Ĭharacter growth is handled via the standard AD&D attributes, which can be raised and modified in the game. It is set in the Planescape, the exotic AD&D setting which is composed out of various "planes" of existence, with unique characteristics to each. Planescape: Torment is a role-playing game that uses a heavily altered variation of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Second Edition rules. Piece by piece he shall solve the puzzle and re-discover his own past. The Nameless One opens the doors of the mortuary, only to dive into a world full of fateful encounters, strange characters, broken hopes, despair, and hatred. His journey begins with only one goal: he must learn his name, find out what had happened to him, and which forces prevent him from dying in peace, like all other human beings. Memories of love, a woman's face, good and bad deeds of his life - all his past appears in a flash, only to be replaced by the dreadful reality of the mortuary. He is sure that he is dead, yet he is also sure that he moves, thinks, and feels. Waking up on a stone slab in a morgue, which the zombie workers just pushed into the room, a big man with a face deformed by scars, his back marked by strange tattoos, looks at the dead bodies scattered around the room through the dim light, unable to understand who he is. ![]()
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