From Doom to Call of Duty, first-person shooters have been immensely popular for decades. But what if the thrill for video game fans was never really about the guns? Immortals of Aveum, arriving on Tuesday for Windows computers and the latest PlayStation and Xbox consoles, will test this theory. The game, set in a fantasy world with several kingdoms at war over the control of magic, abandons the tried-and-true formula of arming players with an arsenal of guns and bazookas. In the single-player game, a battlemage named Jak joins an elite militarylike force, collecting spells to make his sigils more potent.

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Persons: Jak Organizations: PlayStation, Studios, Telltale Games, Electronic Arts