Horizons: Gamespot's Updated Preview

Starting off the week, Gamespot.com has posted it's updated preview on everyone's favorite upcoming game, Horizons *wink*. The informative, albiet short, preview has a few new tidbits for you to chew on, including a bit more about the magic system in Istaria:

[i]Bowman explained that using magic in Horizons, at least as far as combat is concerned, will require tactical planning and will work best with a coordinated group. This is because in Horizons, spell-casters go through three phases when casting a spell: pre-casting, casting, and post-casting. During the pre-casting and casting phases, a magic-user is defenseless, and during the post-casting phase, the magic-user recovers, but can't cast that same spell for some time. The lower-level spells will all have extremely brief post-cast times so that you can fire them off in rapid succession, but as Bowman explained, players will encounter tough fights that will require magic-users to unleash more-powerful spells, but they'll have to coordinate their attacks in succession for the best results.

[/i]I'll take that as meaning there's no mana in Horizons. Hmm, should be interesting! The full article can be accessed by following this link.