But when I played the entire campaign again for this review, I liked it a little bit better. I played through Titan Quest twice when I wrote my review for it, and I disliked it nearly every step of the way. But if you didn't really get into Titan Quest, the answer is a little bit trickier. So if you enjoyed the original Titan Quest, then Immortal Throne is a slam dunk. It's still an action RPG where you have to enjoy killing creatures over and over again, just to gain more experience and to find more equipment. Iron Lore Entertainment made all sorts of nice changes, both expected and unexpected, and those changes did a lot to improve some of the problems of the original game. Overall, I'd say that Titan Quest: Immortal Throne is a great expansion pack for an okay game. Iron Lore touched upon nearly every part of the game. Quest mobs are now labeled with a purple color so that they're easier to identify. There are expensive scrolls that you can purchase so that you can cast some magic spells. There are buttons that allow you to auto-sort your inventory. You can toggle an option so that you no longer accidentally pick up equipment when you're trying to move around. When you die, your character leaves behind a grave marker, and if you can get back to the marker before you die again, then you'll back get some of your lost experience. Artifacts are kind of fun, but this is another place where I don't know if the addition really adds anything, since characters already had nine equipment slots, and what's the difference between nine and ten? Artifacts also require you to lug around a lot of relics and charms and formulae, and so it's a good thing Iron Lore increased the amount of storage space you get.įinally, Iron Lore made a bunch of smaller improvements. Each arcane formula requires relics, charms, and/or other artifacts in order to produce an artifact, and you need to bring the ingredients to an enchanter (along with another hefty fee) to have the artifact crafted. This is a great improvement, because relics are sometimes hard to find, and equipment is all over the place, so this makes it easy to keep your relics as you improve your equipment.Īrcane formulae are used to create artifacts, which are a new type of equipment in Immortal Throne. For a hefty fee, they can remove a relic from a piece of equipment and then return to you either the relic or the piece of equipment (destroying the other). You couldn't take the relic back out or change your mind and insert a different relic instead. In Titan Quest, if you inserted a relic into a piece of equipment, the insertion was permanent. Of 2Enchanters deal with relics and charms and arcane formulae.