GAMING / PC: `TITAN QUEST' PUTS PLAYER -- OR PLAYERS -- IN REALM OF MYTHOLOGY.

San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) | July 22, 2006 | Copyright

Byline: Dean Takahashi

Jul. 22--If you're going to clone a classic game, make it pretty.

That's the guiding principle behind "Titan Quest" from THQ. In this case, the classic goes back all the way to the ancient days of 1997, when Blizzard launched "Diablo," a new kind of dungeon quest game.

You didn't have to spend extensive time waiting for things to happen. You just clicked with the mouse somewhere on the screen to get your character to move and then clicked on a monster to attack it. By the end of the game, you've clicked about 600 million ...

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