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 RPGPlanet - News, Screenshots, Previews, Reviews, Guides
Arcanum begins with you aboard the LF.S. Zephyr, a zeppelin which is shot down.
Instead of offering the usual fantasy-oriented backdrop, Arcanum's setting is Steampunk, a genre of fiction set in the late 1800s in a world that is very technologically advanced while still offering fantasy elements.
In the world of Arcanum, there are two major forces at work -- technology and magick -- and both sides are at odds with each other as technology spreads like wildfire across the land.
www.rpgplanet.com /features/reviews/arcanum   (574 words)

  
 Ars Technica: Arcanum - Page 1 - (9/2001)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Arcanum is an epic RPG in the tradition of Baldur's Gate, with tons of quests and a lot of open-ended gameplay.
Arcanum also has an epic story with conspiracies and subplots that are befitting a great novel.
Arcanum's story line and personality are both top notch, and it's these two elements that are most important to any game.
arstechnica.com /reviews/01q3/arcanum/arcanum.html   (647 words)

  
 Featuring Arcanum Preview at ActionTrip
Arcanum is the first game to be released by the Troika Studios, a software company founded by the three great names in electronic entertainment industry: Tim Cain, Leonard Boyarsky and Jason Anderson.
The mechanical age is in its infancy in the Arcanum world, and Humans, Dwarves, Orcs, Gnomes, Elves, Ogres, and other races are coming to terms with living in the newly erected industrial cities.
Arcanum has identical gameplay as the Fallout serial: isometric view with a completely new engine that supports higher resolution and 16-bit color.
www.actiontrip.com /previews/arcanum.phtml   (1507 words)

  
 Featuring Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura Review at ActionTrip
Arcanum is one of the greatest surprises this year in spite of all press and on-line announcements it got.
The slogan makes one thing pretty obvious: Arcanum is a world of magic and fantasy which is slowly entering industrial revolution.
You should never forget that Arcanum is a class-less RPG, and that you have absolute control in how you develop your character: if you want a wizard, you will develop magic skills, if you want a technologist, you will develop your technology skills.
www.actiontrip.com /reviews/arcanum.phtml   (799 words)

  
 Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura for PC video game review and cheats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Arcanum is a completely original world, filled with exotic creatures, powerful spells and the best scientific devices of its age.
Arcanum’s player development model is a testament to the gaming industry, allowing an extreme amount of freedom in deciding how to develop the character.
Somewhat marred by a bulky interface, Arcanum is nevertheless a breath of fresh air in the RPG genre, with highly rendered graphics, huge playing fields, and an excellent experience system allowing unprecedented freedom of development, not to mention the interesting storyline.
www.gamezilla.com /reviews/a/arcanum.asp   (1227 words)

  
 Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura for PC Review - PC Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura Review
Arcanum is a traditional fantasy role-playing game with several distinctive traits, including a great premise and a nonlinear, open-ended role-playing system.
Three years in the making, Arcanum is the fledgling effort of Troika Games, a small studio founded by several key members of the team that created Fallout-- Interplay's memorable, highly enjoyable postapocalyptic role-playing game--back in 1997.
Perhaps the most notable aspect of Arcanum is its setting: The game takes place in a fantasy world undergoing an industrial revolution, much like the United States' industrial revolution during the Victorian era in the late 19th century.
www.gamespot.com /pc/rpg/arcanumofsteamworksamo/review.html?tag=gs_tabrv   (998 words)

  
 Ben Houge, Arcanum Soundtrack
Arcanum is a fantasy world of orcs and elves that has undergone an industrial revolution, pitting new technological devices such as steam engines and pistols against the ancient ways of magic.
Arcanum was released on August 21, 2001, and has garnered fantastic accolades in the press, including PC Gamer's Editor's Choice Award and a fine review in the New York Times.
The string quartet portion was performed by members of the Seattle Symphony and recorded in June 2000 at Studio X in downtown Seattle, where other local ensembles such as Pearl Jam and Soundgarden have been recorded, not to mention the Spice Girls and plenty of film soundtracks.
www.benhouge.com /arcanum.html   (1917 words)

  
 Arcanum
Arcanum is now involved in another indie film entitled "The Novel" with Brett in a small part as one of the bad guys [Brett is good guy in real life :)].
Arcanum is currently being shopped around to major labels, but they do have to prove they want to be heard.
Arcanum is a two man band that has a whole spectrum of styles.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/2578/arc.html   (3088 words)

  
 Low-Spoiler Arcanum Hints and Tips (Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura)
Arcanum: Steamworks has great replayability in theory, what with all the different dialogue sets for different genders/races/intelligences/charismas/etc., but unfortunately movement is extremely tedious and slow, and unlike BGII, there isn't a convenient cheat set up to let you navigate the map more quickly in subsequent replayings.
I'd really like to finish a whole Arcanum game with a 3-INT bimbo, but just haven't got the time or patience the hours of trudging her mindlessly across screen after familiar screen would entail.
You can finish Arcanum with a low INT--and the "stupid" dialogues are so funny they've had me weeping when I've tried it--but it'll be a much shorter and rather less satisfying ride.
www.angelfire.com /hero/tjekanefir/arc.htm   (2268 words)

  
 GameSpot:Video Games PC Xbox 360 PS3 Revolution PSP DS PS2 PlayStation 2 GameCube GBA PlayStation 3
Arcanum retains Fallout's isometric perspective, but the interface has an industrialized "steampunk" look to it.
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura (the game's full title) retains Fallout's isometric perspective, but the team created a brand-new engine for the game, with 800x600 graphics and 16-bit color.
Similar to Fallout, Arcanum features optional "backgrounds," such as "Raised By Snake Handlers," which gives you a 20 percent resistance to poison.
www.gamespot.com /features/arcanum_pre   (556 words)

  
 Ironworks Gaming - Arcanum Preview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Arcanum is the first game to come from the development house Troika Games, LLC, started by former Fallout team members Tim Cain, Leonard Boyarsky, and Jason Anderson.
Arcanum opens, the mechanical age has only recently arrived in this ancient land where Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Orcs and other races have learned to coexist in the new sprawling industrialized cities.
Arcanum allows gamers to assume the role of multiple pre-existing characters or create their own, and provides many paths to explore the game world, ensuring the highest degree of replay ability.
www.tgeweb.com /ironworks/previews/Arcanum/Arcanum-06172000-1a.shtml   (280 words)

  
 Galleria Arcanum
Also, I would make an easy to use trainer instead of instructing how to do memory searches, but the locations in memory for these values change each time you run Arcanum or its demo so this is impossible as far as I know of.
Go to your character stats screen and make a note of its value (the real range for this value appears to be 0 to 55 and this will only be useful if you have more than zero points and hopefully more than 1 as well...you'll see why).
Arcanum is a registered trademark and Sierra and Sierra Studios are trademarks of Sierra On-Line, Inc.
galleriaarcanum.50megs.com /cheats.html   (613 words)

  
 Sierra: Arcanum - The Game - FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The world of Arcanum is a Tolkienesque fantasy world that has recently experienced an industrial revolution.
Technology and magic have reached an unstable equilibrium, with technology being on the rise in the last 70 years, and magic being in decline from its once penultimate position in the world.
Being a true fantasy world, Arcanum is populated with elves, orcs, humans, dwarves, ogres, gnomes and halflings.
arcanum.sierra.com /us/game/game-faqs.html   (238 words)

  
 AVault | PC | Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Horses have given way to locomotives, knights in armor become vulnerable to firearms, and machines powered by electricity are giving wizards and sorcerers a run for their money.
Arcanum is a role playing title that can easily be compared to Fallout, the post-apocalyptic game produced by some of the developers currently working at Troika.
The lands of Arcanum are vast, with small villages, expansive plains, and impenetrable mountains co-existing with major industrialized cities and railroads.
www.avault.com /reviews/review_temp.asp?game=arcan   (491 words)

  
 The Adrenaline Vault | PC Preview |   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Their new title, Arcanum, merges the classic trappings of the swords-and-sorcery genre with the technology and social upheaval of the Industrial Revolution, allowing players to adventure in a strange, exciting new world.
The world of Arcanum is on the brink of change.
The Age of Legends, where magick and fantastic creatures ruled, is drawing to a close and technology is advancing at a rapid pace.
www.avault.com /previews/preview_temp.asp?game=arcan   (623 words)

  
 Preview: Arcanum
Quarter 3 and 4 of this year, and more probably Q1 of next, should prove to be difficult for anyone playing RPGs as they’ll be shelling out good sums of cash as well as spending untold hours peering into screens and ignoring calls from their family.
The world of Arcanum is an interesting mix of nineteenth century technology (a sort of steampunk environment), magic, Victoria fashion (think formal dress and elaborate speech), and dwarves, orcs and elves.
Granted, NWN is a 3D engine, but Arcanum, if the developers deliver what they promise, will allow exactly the same sort of game creation and it will be out sooner.
www.gamesfirst.com /previews/Arcanum/arcanum.htm   (668 words)

  
 Welcome
Arcanum is a small, rural community located in southwestern Darke County, Ohio.
Downtown Arcanum is bustling with businesses offering a wide array of products and services.
The Village of Arcanum makes every effort to ensure that information on this web site is accurate.
villageofarcanum.com   (221 words)

  
 Science Fiction Book Reviews
The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of The Arcanum is Sherlock Holmes with a ghostbusting twist.
The Arcanum may be lacking in depth, but it is definitely worth checking out—by readers on the lookout for some light action-adventure or anyone interested in the book's key historical figures.
The Arcanum is the same sort of beast as Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but without the stylish steampunk milieu or a strong female character like Mina, it lacks LXG's bite.
www.scifi.com /sfw/issue369/books2.html   (560 words)

  
 Welcome to the Royal Arcanum!
The Royal Arcanum is one of the oldest fraternal benefit societies in the United States and the Dominion of Canada, operating under the fraternal system, which offers many social and fraternal benefits to its members.
The Royal Arcanum is the only surviving founding member of the National Fraternal Congress of America, an organization representing over 90 fraternal benefit societies and 10 million fraternalists.
Royal Arcanum has joined the AFCA (American Football Coaches Association) in partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to participate in the National Child Identification Program.
www.royalarcanum.com   (390 words)

  
 Just Adventure + Review: Arcanum
The result of their labors is Arcanum, and it has a stunningly innovative basic premise.
Arcanum sports the most brilliantly open and flexible character creation and development system I've ever seen in a role-playing game.
The beautiful afore-mentioned opening cinematic notwithstanding, the general gameplay screen graphics in Arcanum are a surprising disappointment.
www.justadventure.com /reviews/Arcanum/Arcanum.shtm   (1310 words)

  
 Dimensions of Arcanum - Tinkerer's Workshop
We have studied long and hard the schematic for Arcanum and, with your help, we hope to provide prospective adventurers the means to modify this great game as well as given you access to various hacks and cheats.
This modification is an add-on for Arcanum that adds a cargo hold to the ship, giving the player a free place to sleep and several containers to store/sort items.
There was an issue with selecting for example Arcanum, then switching to another mod, then when you quit, it was supposed to clean up the directory from extracted files but instead it deleted the files in the mod folder you chose.
arcanum.rpgplanet.gamespy.com /tinkerer/tinkerer.shtml   (7715 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Arcanum: Books: Thomas Wheeler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Thomas Wheeler's The Arcanum is an ambitious novel by a competent novelist.
Lovecraft is portrayed as a sniveling madman and Marie Laveau is characterized only with dropped g's at the end of gerunds and a few "cheres" thrown in to remind us all that she is from the south.
Thomas Wheeler's book is about a secret society known as the Arcanum trying to solve the case of a murder and the mystery of a group of angels on earth.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553381997?v=glance   (1698 words)

  
 ARCANUM, OHIO
The Arcanum Police Department is dedicated to providing superior service to the community by building relationships which produce trust, reduce crime, create a safe and secure environment that enhances the quality of life for everyone.
Arcanum has 14 officers, 4 are Full Time and 10 are Part Time.
The Arcanum Police Department wishes to acknowledge the consistent generosities of the VFW and LIONS CLUB.
www.jeepsterproductions.com /arcanum/police.htm   (253 words)

  
 Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura (pc: 2001): Reviews
Populated with elves, orcs, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and halflings, Arcanum, a Tolkienesque fantasy world, exists in an unsteady equilibrium between the emergence of industrialized cities and the decline of magic.
Arcanum epitomizes what people like you and me love most about PC gaming.
Unfortunately, there is one area in Arcanum that truly fails to hold up with the rest of the game—the combat engine.
www.metacritic.com /games/platforms/pc/arcanumofsteamworks   (1039 words)

  
 IGN: Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura - August 24, 2001
Arcanum proves the computer RPG is far from dead.
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura - April 25, 2001
pc.ign.com /objects/013/013257.html   (624 words)

  
 Dimensions of Arcanum
We hope to provide the latest news and information about Arcanum, the new and exciting role-playing game from Sierra On-line and Troika Games, which started to hit the shelves 24th August 2001.
Arcanum is a registered trademark and Sierra and Sierra Studios are trademarks of Sierra On-Line, Inc. Dimensions of Arcanum site design by Kimmie.
This game fansite is copyrighted © 2000 by Dimensions of Arcanum unless specified otherwise and cannot copied without permission.
arcanum.rpgplanet.gamespy.com   (142 words)

  
 Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura @ GameBanshee
Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura @ GameBanshee
Troika Games' Tim Cain stopped by the RPGCodex forums to report that the company has filed its final tax return and is now officially shut down.
Music 4 Games is reporting that the music from both Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura will be performed during the opening of the 2005 games convention in Leipzig, Germany.
www.gamebanshee.com /arcanum   (515 words)

  
 BlueSmoke - Preview : Arcanum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Welcome to Arcanum, a land rich with wonder, mystery and excitement and for the prepared traveler - A land filled with arcane arts of magic and the new arts of technology.
Built upon almost six thousand years of history, Arcanum also holds many strange and horrifying dangers for the unwary traveler.
Magic or technology, good or evil, it is up to you, traveler, to decide.
www.bluesmoke.net /viewArticle.cgi?id=p4   (102 words)

  
 GameSpy.com - Reviews: Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura
Despite some bugs, Arcanum delivers a fantastic gaming experience.
Prior to boarding a train, you must endure a litany of questions.
The monsters you face are very well designed.
archive.gamespy.com /reviews/july01/arcanum   (653 words)

  
 AGES - Mod Centre for Arcanum
The Arcanum Geographical Exploration Society (or AGES) is a group dedicated to the support of the Arcanum mod-building community.
If you are staring at the screen blankly, Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura is a new computer role-playing game from Troika Games, released in August 2001.
Apart from an intriguing RPG set in a fantasy world where magick is clashing head-on with technology, Arcanum will be released with a World Editor, which will enable players to create their own single and multi-player modules.
www.geocities.com /agesarcanum   (367 words)

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