"The name of an underground urban environment where your special experience will begin, in the realm of medieval fantasy.
Be prepared to penetrate a world where the sun has slowly retreated and completely vanished. A world taken over by an unfriendly and threatening atmosphere, forcing the exodus of ARX FATALIS inhabitants to the obscure depths of a dwarf mine in order to survive. There, they had to become acquainted with an unusual neighborhood, among goblins, trolls and ratmen…

The resurrection of codes and rules as once established years ago on the surface has given rebirth to racial conflict. There is no escape since the forbidding cold on the other side of the double fortress gate of ARX FATALIS is enough to dissuade the bravest of souls.
While you become familiar with this nowhere land, evil is casting its shadow upon ARX FATALIS : Akbaa, the almighty god of Chaos is determined to live on ARX FATALIS vicious goal, he is plotting with a priest, Iserbius, a dedicated believer whose secret cult provides the vital energy through human sacrifices and incantations essential to his coalescence with Akbaa on ARX FATALIS.

Fortunately, the kingdom’s astronomer discovered key elements of this secret cult and managed to alert the regency of Gods before being mysteriously slaughtered. Persecuted, you wake up in a Goblin jail in which the walls, covered with dried blood, are an ominous omen of your welcome.
You have just escaped this tormented hell when the king invites you to go and meet with the Guardian sent by the regency of Gods…"

That's what the press release states on the story of Arx Fatalis, the upcoming game from Arkane Studio's and Fishtank Interactive.

In this first person RPG, you'll have more than eight completely different races with numerous individual representatives and a multi-player mode with a huge variety of modes.

The gameplay will be non-linear and should give you up to 50 hours of playtime where you're supposed to be viewing beautifully animated cut-scenes and have an astoundingly deep atmosphere.

Last but not least : to make things easy, there will be an innovative gesture-based „onscreen“ spell casting with over 50 Spells to give you the chance to kill enemies in more than enough ways to keep you satisfied.