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Avil is the last-remaining Sentinel and only
he has the power to save humankind. Indie
developer Iron Galaxy presents a brand new
action-adventure game – Extinction.
Extinction places emphasis on high-speed
traversal around an interactive environment. Avil
must move quickly traversing across rooftops,
alongside buildings, and more to save humanity
from the encroaching horde, and take down the
seemingly endless waves of Ravenii using his
powers as a trained Sentinel. And while the
swarm of smaller minions may seem like the
crisis at hand, there’s always a larger problem
on the horizon.
Armies of ogres are equipped with their own
weapons and armor, requiring Avil to use tactical
thinking, the structure of the environment, and
even the enemies themselves in order to quickly
eliminate the giants before they destroy all that’s
left of the world and drive it to extinction.
It will take more than raw power to defeat
these monstrous foes. Avil needs to use
strategy, cunning and quick thinking to
permanently take down ogres covered in layers
of bone, iron, spikes, thorns, and dark steel.
Avil fights these giants in real-time combat,
but there’s only one way to stop them
permanently, decapitation. However, a Ravenii
decked out in spiked armor isn’t going to be easy
to take-down as his armor will injure Avil if he
comes in contact with it. Therefore, he must lure
a spiked Ravenii into smashing the ground,
cracking his own armor until it breaks away. Only
then can Avil sever a limb, vertically run up the
monster’s torso, and make the finishing blow
using a Sentinel’s most valuable skill: a powerful
rune strike.
Extinction comes with a deep story campaign
featuring Avil front and center as he desperately
rescues countless civilians while taking down
massive and brutal opponents. Added to the fray,
Extinction laces the action with dynamic side
missions maintaining various objectives,
earnings upgrades to aid the adventure. Players
will need to master Avil's vast array of skills
based combat and maneuverability. Avil is an
agile protagonist who can quickly travel
horizontally and vertically, performing wall runs
with the use of a whip as a vault to perform
devastating air assaults.
Every battle in Extinction is uniquely different
from the last and there are tons of battles.
Impressively, these epic battles are integrated
with fully destructible environments, allowing the
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