Goliath

Review

Ooh… Aah… What happened? Where am I? Yes, I remember. A malfunction with the engine and I had to do an emergency landing. Well, seeing the extended damage the plane has suffered, I’d say its more or less a crash!

Gromov… Gromov… can you hear me? Incredible, the radio still works! Hello, Gromov here…
Goliath is an action/role playing game where you take control of Gromov, who crash landed his World War 2 plane on a mysterious planet. At the start of the game, you will have to do simple tasks: cutting trees, picking berries and setting up a camp. This is basically a tutorial and it will show you how to use both your inventory and the crafting menu to a certain aspect. After, hearing from your co-pilot which is stuck on the other side of the world, you will be shown the way to a teleporting device which stands in the middle of a specific circle (your new base). From here, you will be able to construct a laboratory, weapons and a Goliath construction. At your tent, you will be able to craft plenty of objects, but you must have the correct items to do so. I might add, you can store a good number of items in your inventory, which is great.

The world itself is very interesting; it is a kind of forest with ruins of 1930 buildings here and there, futuristic fragments of spaceships, very large creatures to fight or to avoid if you do not have the right Goliath under your belt, and factions that each want to dominated this strange world. As you go along, you will meet with different characters and will be given quests to do and teleporting Gromov to different areas of the planets. What I like about the world is that each part that I have seen so far has different weather elements, deserts, snow, forests with specific plants to harvest and with different creature too. As you achieve your task, you will be given experience points. Depending on which level you have reached, you will be able to access special abilities in your Goliaths.



At first, you will only be able to construct a wooden goliath, and if you have built a weapons construction table, you might be able to craft weapons for it. Then you will be able to construct stone, metal and other types of Goliaths. Each Goliath has three combat abilities, but you must reach a certain level of experience to enable each of them. To give you an example, for the wooden Goliath the first ability is available as soon as your reach level 4 of experience, then you must pass level 6 and 17 to unlock the other two. You might be able to beat a Dodo by itself quite easily but a bunch of Dodo’s are always hard to get rid of. There are a lot more creatures to fight but I will let you discover them. If you have more than one Goliath constructed, you control one and can order the other to follow you into battle or to guard an area.

The combat mechanism is simple and easy to use, whether you use the mouse and keyboard or the gamepad. One thing you must collect at all costs is the gems. Every time you teleport from one part of the world to another, it will cost you a certain number of gems.

I really like the artwork and the controls work pretty well. One thing I noticed is that each time I load a game, the animations are not fluid for a while but then it seems to rectify itself.


Positives

+ Good artwork
+ Plenty of quests to do
+ Good crafting mechanism
+ Interesting world
+ Achievements and Trading cards

Negatives

- A bit buggy at times

Review Summary

I really enjoyed Goliath; it is a good RPG, and tell me, who would not love to build big strong robots?

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Zeepond Rating: 9/10

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