Silverfall - Previews @ UGO, ActionTrip

A general preview of Silverfall is online at UGO:

Although you'll start by creating your own character (race and class), the tutorial section that follows actually puts you in control of a powerful wizard as he valiantly yet fruitlessly works to save the city of Silverfall from an undead (the face of evil in this game) invasion. You won't take control of your created hero - who turns out to be the lost wizard's apprentice - until immediately after this section, as the town's refugees try to reorganize in the nearby swamps. The character creation process is a simplified version of what we've come to expect from other RPG titles, and it works well enough for a game like this. For those unfamiliar with Diablo or its successors, you interact with the world by simply clicking your mouse pointer on different parts of the environment. It works as well in Silverfall as it has in similar titles, so enjoying the experience really comes down to whether or not you like this style of play.

ActionTrip's article has more substance to it - here's a bit on skills and side-quests:

Some of the skills will go directly into combat while others can be assigned to give you a variety of different abilities. One gave me a bonus to magic drop rates while another increased my movement speed. I ended up creating a fighter primarily with a few skill points thrown into quick recovery skills to reduce my downtime between fights. All the skill trees look to be very nicely done and as a added bonus, you can always go back and un-assign skill points at certain vendors (for a fee), if you feel like you made a mistake.

Running around the game itself, I was impressed by the how open-ended it was. Right from the get-go, I had the choice of doing the primary quest to move the story along or I could choose from about 10 secondary quests. The secondary quest had a nice variety, some of which where the means to unlock different aspects of the game. One for example, required me to track down a goblin's missing safe. Once I returned it to him, I was then able to store extra equipment there. It also unlocked the ability to buy insurance, so when I died, my gear stayed with me rather then being left at the "grave site"