Rise of the Argonauts - E3 Preview @ Gamespot

E3 brings another preview to light, this one over at Gamespot, featuring a hands-on write-up of Liquid's and Cinemax's action rpg, Rise of the Argonauts.:

 What's nice about the combat in Rise of the Argonauts is that it isn't based on backend dice-rolls or hit points. If you slice an enemy in the neck, he'll lose his head. It's that simple, and a refreshing change of pace in the hack-and-slash action RPG genre. Along the way you'll also recruit legendary heroes Hercules, Achilles, Atalanta, and Pan as your Argonauts, and one hero at a time can join you in combat. Each hero will fight enemies independently, but they will also unlock special attacks if you are fighting close to each other. Hercules, for example, will lift enemies in the air and hold them while you carefully aim a decapitation strike.

In addition to pulping enemy's heads with the mace or tossing spears into the hearts of foes from afar, you'll also have access to god powers. Your choices in the dialog tree will curry favor with either Apollo, Hermes, Aries, and Athena, who is actually an omnipotent hottie. Our Jason was currently in the good graces of Hermes, the smart-aleck god of cunning and trickery. Being the guide to the underworld for wayward spirits, Hermes granted us the power to create a portal to hell that would suck any enemy that we knocked into the air quickly into the afterlife.