Ever since the E3 gameplay vid found its way into our grubby hands, we've been drooling over Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. The single-player just looks top notch and the Arx Fatalis boys finally have a budget to go wild with.

But we've ignored the multiplayer in our fascination. So how's that shaping up? According to Games Radar, it's absofrigginlutely amazing:

Forcing Dark Messiah of Might and Magic's single-player story and gameplay into a single, distinct genre is just about impossible. But pegging Dark Messiah's multiplayer Crusade mode as sharply influenced by the iconic Battlefield series, and finding the fingerprints of the seminal Team Fortress all over its deep gameplay is clearly right on the money.

OK, so it's got a magical (and mighty) twist, but this is class-based team multiplayer at its core - and dare we say - at its finest. We got a chance to play on two of the levels during a bloody hands-on session that unveiled the answers to all of our questions about the up-till-now mysterious multiplayer.

When the hell is this game coming out? When can I preload it through Steam? Florian Eckhardt

We bear witness to the Messiah's amazing multiplayer [Games Radar]

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