Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny HD

You explore the game’s world from first-person perspective. Along with your team you perform a series of quests that lead you to fragments of a map with the location of the legendary sword. The experience gained on the way allow you to develop your attributes and skills which, in turn, help you prove victorious in increasingly challenging skirmishes. During combat the camera automatically switches to isometric view, and the fight itself takes place in a turn-based system, in which individual characters use up their movement points.

It is worth noting that in this case refreshing the classic game did not only mean implementing modern HD graphics. Not only visual artists, but also writers and designers worked on the project. In effect, the original story was expanded. Of course, the classic game interface was redesigned, which is now more intuitive and easier to use. Small changes were also implemented into combat mechanics, e.g. allowing heroes to take cover behind rocks, walls, etc. A big help for the less experienced players is an advanced tutorial that explains Das Schwarze Auge system to all those who are not familiar with its rules.