The world of Cairn has been ripped apart by beings from another plane of reality. Where Titan Quest is bright, shiny, and features fantastical mythological creatures and characters, Grim Dawn is, well, grim. So while the two share a very similar class system (called Masteries), beyond that they're near-polar opposites - most notably in setting. I'm a hardcore action-RPG fan, and I'm making the type of core game fans want to play." But in this case, I am the audience we're targeting. I always consider the audience we're targeting.
I'm not being self-indulgent when I say that. "With Grim Dawn, having total creative freedom, I'm making the game I want to play. "I had a lot of liberty in terms of system design on Titan Quest, but there was a strong pre-existing vision for what it would be and the broad market it was being made for," Bruno said. "Now, with the Kickstarter funding, I'm able to sleep a lot easier at night." "There were some lean years," Bruno said with a smile widened by Grim Dawn's successful (and still ongoing) $310,000 Kickstarter campaign. Stubbornly, Bruno and a fellow Iron Lore alum formed Crate Entertainment shortly after, and in 2010 Crate announced it was working on Grim Dawn. A Titan Quest sequel looked like a sure thing, but publisher THQ balked and Titan Quest 2 died, taking Iron Lore itself down with it in 2008. I not only experienced a terrific new take on top-down action RPGs, I found a great story about a guy chasing a dream.īruno's game-design career began at Iron Lore Entertainment with the critically acclaimed, Greek mythology-themed action-RPG Titan Quest. Outside of Crate Entertainment's two-man full-time team and handful of part-time contributors, I was the first to play Grim Dawn. I grin at Arthur Bruno, the creator of this action RPG, and smile. I pause for a moment, leaving the world of Grim Dawn. My bullets and magic explode moldy foes and furniture alike as I slam through a living room, a bedroom, and out the back of the home itself like a one-man wrecking ball, a swath of glorious, glittering loot in my wake.
I blast the front door of a nearby home to splinters and find more undead waiting. My Occultist character returns the greeting with magically fortified rounds fired from a pepperbox revolver and arcane spells that bind, blast, and fry. It greets me with clutching hands and gaping mouth, and in a blink, it is everywhere. But something lurks beneath the ruddy earth of this ghost town - something hungry. Ripped from the pages of Stephen King's The Dark Tower novels, the Victorian-era town of Burrwitch is a wasteland of deserted dirt roads and derelict clapboard homes.
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