Arx Fatalis was created by Arkane Studios and released in 2002 for PC as a sort of spiritual successor to Ultima Underworld, unable to use that name because the rights belonged to Electronic Arts. A year later, studio Wizarbox developed the Xbox port, published in 2003, adapting the controls and interface for a gamepad.
The game offered an explorable underground world with gesture-based magic, alchemy and a crafting system uncommon for its time. It passed relatively unnoticed on console, but it helped establish Arkane as an immersive-sim studio, a line the company would deepen years later with Dishonored.
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