Nosgoth

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Ladies and gentlemen another review (or more like promotion) from my beloved brother who adores video games. 

My friends, Nosgoth has gone free to play on Steam!

as an encouragement to at least try it out I shall give a bit of a game review for it.

Nosgoth is a third person team based fighting game where one team plays as vampires and the other plays as humans.

upon starting players have access to two vampires and two human classes. the Reaver and the Tyrant for the vampires and the Hunter and the Alchemist for the humans.

the main game mode is death match. in this game mode players are teamed up with three other people in teams of 4, and pitted against another team of 4. the point of this game is to be either the first team to collectively get 30 kills, or have the most kills in 10 minutes. each game has two rounds. during the first round one team will be humans and the other will be vampires, and during the second round they switch. the kill counts of both rounds are added together at the end of the second round and the game goes to the one with the most kills.

the units are pretty balanced if used properly, and the game makes it as fair as possible by having the teams switch races each round.

in general the humans have to stay in a group and wait to repel the vampires. humans are mostly ranged units. the hunter has a repeating crossbow and has the ability to throw a bola that disables the attacks of vampires, and an explosive volley of bolts that deal aria damage. the alchemist fires an explosive grenade out of a launcher. they also start with a flash grenade that blinds any vampire in the vicinity and a firewall that damages the vampires if they walk through it.

there are supply spots around each map that human players may run to in order to regain health and restock on ammo.

the vampires are primarily the initiators of combat, they are melee for the most part, and have three abilities each. the Reaver has a Jump ability that is a good gap closer that disables the person he jumps on for a short time period, and deals damage to him. he also has a smoke bomb that makes it so other vampires can see humans who run through it even through walls, and blinds the humans while they are in it, and they have the ability to sacrifice the ability to attack for the ability to dodge all projectiles aimed at it.

Tyrants are large tank units with the ability to make a charge that throws all enemies that it comes in contact with. it also has the ability to sacrifice its attack but take next to no damage from attacks, and the ability to send a shock wave through the ground that damages all in its wake.

finally all vampires have the ability to gain health by executing a fallen human. upon death humans have a short time where they are harvestable, if a vampire gets there in time they can drink their blood to gain health.

All in all it is a really fun game to play by yourself with a team of strangers or with a group of friends. 

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