Spellbreak Closed Alpha Preview: When Harry Potter Goes Battle Royale
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Apex Legends may be taking the world by storm, but there is another Battle Royale game in the making that has tons of potential. What’s more, it tries to bring something new to the table, and that could be its greatest asset in this fierce and crowded competition.
Spellbreak is the work of Proletariat, a low-profile studio that is aiming big. For Spellbreak, they chose a relatively unexploited subject and one that clearly makes the game stand out from the crowd – magic and spellcasting. And believe me, it’s a lot of fun both to watch and to play.
Our impressions from Spellbreak’s closed alpha test were extremely positive. Here is a game that looks the part, featuring a unique identity, but also plays just like it should. There is this cartoon aesthetic that is evocative of the canceled MOBA game Gigantic but with enough personality to be its own thing. It looks stunning and I would throw my wallet at the developers were they to create an MMORPG within this style. One can only dream…
Spellbreak features the usual game modes: solo, duo and squad of four players. The highlight is the ability to choose and combine different spells. You pick a wizard character, but apart from the slightly dissimilar looks, there doesn’t seem to be anything distinguishable between them for now. Maybe in the future, but right now this is an irrelevant detail in the grand scheme of things.
But it all comes into place as soon as you pick your class… or classes, as you must choose a pair before each match, from an assortment of eleven. Currently you have the Pyromancer, Frostborn, Conduit, Crack Shot, Bulwark, Scavenger, Scholar, Stoneshaper, Tempest, Toxicologist and Zealot. These classes, or schools of magic, will give your wizard a few different ability scrolls to choose from – you have to pick one scroll from the two on offer, which means that you are actively choosing one passive ability over the other. Ultimately, you are creating a character build that is unique for that match based on your two initial classes, so make sure that you experiment wildly until you settle for a combination that suits your playstyle.
There’s a hint of randomness to the order in which the scrolls show up, so you’re not always in control of the outcome, but you can do your best to get the finest build that you possibly can.
Each wizard can use two magic gauntlets that deal different kinds of elemental damage – some are flame-based, others are frost, lightning, toxic, stone or wind-based, and so on. Gauntlets come in various rarity types, just as it happens with other equipment pieces such as boots, belts or amulets. Let’s not forget about the all-important Runes, which give you special powers such as invisibility, teleportation, blink, flight and more.
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