You can also select your starting ability that can range from being stronger working as a solo adventurer, automatically healing when standing in blood, or gaining additional action points in combat after dealing a killing blow. Not only must you pick your class, classes can also be altered with different specializations, each of which unlocks new abilities. I restarted my file half a dozen times the more I learned how the game works, wanting to craft the perfect combat style for me. “I highly recommend having a varied party across skills and races, as every one of the unbelievable abilities in the game should be used at least once to be appreciated.”īeyond appearance, customizing your character is a massive undertaking. If you find yourself having trouble creating a character, several of the game’s optional party members can be selected and tweaked, making the game follow their own storyline. If that weren’t enough, each of these races can also be created in their undead variant, a form that adds entirely new mechanics to the game.
Players create their own character from one of four races Dwarves, Humans, Elves, and Lizards. The easiest way to explain Divinity: Original Sin 2 in the shortest amount of words is this “Dungeons and Dragons: The video game.” Everything about D:OS2 feels richly inspired by the classic DnD series and it does it incredibly well.
