Wild Tangent's Fate game

Wild Tangent recently launched a intriguing casual downloadable single player role playing game called Fate - if you have not tried it, check it out - Gamespot review is here.  Some gamers have referred to it as "Diablo Lite", usually with some type of insult following, but I think they're missing the point.   This is an easy game to get into, it's in a popular genre, and it provides a lot of value in the first 3 levels, encouraging you to buy the whole game.  The dial-up download is hefty at 27MB, but I think that almost everyone is going to go for the richer full media download at 125MB - this violates the so-called 10MB rule of casual games, but that's the point - it's time to reconsider the accepted rules of casual games and begin to expand into alternative game play and alternative demographics - not everything can be a puzzle game.  Fate may not be perfect, but it's a good start.

Comments

[Anant]

well Sean I truly agree with the "missing the point" part in your review as after playing Fate I found it to be pretty neat for its genre.

[llc]

i think fate is a really good game but i wish you could go farther in to like dungeon lvl 10 and get your char lvl to like 20.

[cj]

You're absolutely right. It is time to toss aside the the traditional "rules" of all downloadable applications, not just games. Pretty soon, everything will live on Web 2.0... not your local hard drive.

[georgee]

the game rocks for its gender
the demo has lots of blockings but with a lil effort cracking the key code is really eassy.
ive got a char lvl 41 with some nice eq

the demo shows you what you kan be missing
xD

[Juso]

I am lvl 100 in fate that game is good it will be better if was a onmline game

[patti]

i would like to play fate.

[bob]

please give me the code! =(