Today we got the opportunity to see the game strut its stuff in playable form. Along with learning some new details, we also got a chance to see how the proprietary engine stacks up. In short, it's not looking bad. Not bad at all.

When the game was first booted up, we found ourselves in a forest clearing as a storm was rolling in. While the fog thickened, the wind began to pick up causing the trees and tall grass to start swaying realistically. Then the rain and lightning made an appearance, effectively completing the scene and providing a great introduction to the look of the game. The storms look very cool and the way the lightning flashes bask the world in light and outline the sky-facing surfaces is a great touch.

...they even motion captured rabbits...

One of the cooler bits is the way they've made the environments interactive on a minute level. Once out in an open field, we watched an area effect fire spell burn out a patch of grass. With favorable conditions, we were told the grass would eventually grow back.

As our hero wandered around a field, the lush world streamed in nicely with only a few hitches seen here or there. Even better, walking into a building doesn't trigger load screens.

Skills aren't improved through repetition, but rather through gaining training or knowledge in the game. For example, we saw a low level character talk to a stable owner and learn that one of his friends could teach you a thing or two about riding mounts. We found him and after talking to him gained a skill level for horseback riding.

Skills don't appear stat based either, though the rep we spoke to couldn't confirm that. A first level horseback rider can use mounts, but can't get them to go into a full gallop. Gain a few more levels and you'll be able to fight from the back of whatever steed you've found, of which there will be five varieties including horses and giant lizards.

Any similar items can be forged together. Swords can be dropped on top of one another to add their strengths together and improve their class level. Every item can be improved up to class five.

we took a look at the magic screen next. Here we saw the card system that Two Worlds uses in a similar fashion to card games such as Magic. As you travel around the world, you'll find various magic and booster cards, be they from shopkeepers, dead magicians, or from completing quests.

Unfortunately, character creation isn't as in-depth as it is in many other RPGs.

When you decide to go online, you won't be taking the character that you've been questing with offline with you. Instead, you'll have to create a whole new character...

Two Worlds promises roughly 40 hours of gameplay from the main mission with that number going up to over 100 hours if you do everything there is to do in the single player game. That doesn't include the multiplayer game which has its own unique set of quests.

Interviewé par FiringSquad, James Seaman -producteur de Two Worlds- a livré quelques informations concernant son jeu de rôle à paraître au mois de mai sur Xbox 360. Tout d'abord, la superficie du jeu sera 33% plus grande que celle d'Oblivion (qui permettait au joueur de se promener à travers 40km² de décors), et incluera des paysages aussi variés que des forêts, des montagnes, des zones arctiques, etc ... Puis, ce même producteur nous a appris que sa création devrait permettre de passer au moins une bonne centaine d'heures devant sa console. Voilà une bonne chose, un jeu vendu 70€ n'étant pas fait pour se finir en sept heures. Enfin, ne vous attendez pas à voir une démo jouable arriver sur le Marché Xbox Live, le poids du jeu l'interdisant.