Hum... its like a adventure game that takes place in the ancient world of Greece,Egypt,Orient,and Hades (in the expantion pack). you build a charactor and you go are defeating enemies getting diff. armor and leveling up. When you level up you get to chose a mastery of sorts like warfare where to are a dual weilding swords man or Earth mastery where you can use earth, fire and lava spells to help you. You go around and help the villages and cities fight off monsters and then there is a main story line too.