Necromania is a game from Slovakian developer Darksoft Game Development Studio and a Czech company Cinemax released in 2002. It received bad reviews from press and players, but is actualy an interesting game.
Gameplay: Singleplayer, Multiplayer, MOBA
The term 'MOBA' stands for Multiplayer Online Battle Arena and recently got more popularity with the success of 'League of Legends', 'Dota 2' and upcoming titles such as 'Heros of the Storm'. Necromania is not an 'Aeon of Strife' Cardboard cutout like those games though and deserves the tag 'MOBA' with its unique gameplay that shines in a multiplayer environment exspecialy when playing against friends.
The objective of the game is to find parts of a key inside a dungeon and use those to open a door to escape. There is only enough keyparts for one key though, so you have to get the parts your enemies are holding onto by luring them into traps.
There are different characters that have mostly the same ablities to lay traps into chests or on the ground. Those traps can keep enemies trapped in environmental hazards or deal direct damage. Every character has a certain speciality only he can do though. The Mage for example can turn invisible.
All of those special abilities use up Mana, which also serves as your Healthpoints. So if you spam too many traps without replenishing your mana or stealing mana from enemies by them activating your traps, you will be at low hp and easy to take on in a direct battle with your opponent.
The ingame taunt system is very elaborate which adds alot to the multiplayer experience with friends. I would not recommend the Singleplayer though, since it can get boring easily to fight against CPU-opponents which cant feel the pain of losing all key parts right before they could open the door.
The game can be found for a few dollars on many online platforms such as ebay and Amazon. If you still look for a fun game for a lan party you should pick this up.
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