You still have other customization options to play around with, such as gender, hairstyle and accessories, etcetera etcetera. Nortander is a human country and having multiple voice actors recording all that dialogue would be too costly and time-consuming.

You can’t change the voice and race options either.

You can choose your first name, but the family name is set in stone as Aerev since that is how all the voice-acted characters address him. I know you must be anxious to jump in and get your journey started but first, you have to create your character. The Queen isn’t going to just hand over control to you: Aerev must prove himself by completing a few important missions first. Based in the mountain fortress-city of Greykeep, the Wolf Guard is a special force made up of humans, elves, and orcs. She wants to give him a second chance and take up the mantle of the commander of the Wolf Guard. One day he receives a summons from Nortander Queen Ayelith demands he return to Nortander immediately for an audience. He has a very convenient form of amnesia, though, so he doesn’t quite recall exactly what happened. Stationed in Empyria, far away from his beloved homeland of Nortander for over a decade, he wallows in the knowledge that he got his troops massacred. You take control of the disgraced General Aerev. For this review, I will be focusing on the roughly 20-hour campaign.

It frequently alludes to those events but it fleshes out the important parts enough so that I never felt lost or confused about the plot. Soul Harvest takes place years after the events of the third. This is actually my first foray into the world of Spellforce. Not only that, but the story doesn’t require any knowledge of what happened previously, either. Let me just say right off the bat that Spellforce3: Soul Harvest is a stand-alone expansion that does not require the previous game in order to be played.

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