Venetica - Preview @ IGN

We haven't seen much of Venetica from Deck 13 (Ankh) but IGN has a Leipzig preview:

We got a look at several different areas of Venetica. First we saw an area down in sewers and caves. Here we saw the basic combat. You can simply button mash if you want, swinging away with whatever weapon you have equipped. This won't always work since some enemies will learn to block these simple-minded attacks. You'll want to mix things up a bit with dashes and rolls to get at the weak points. It'll also help to level your character up to learn a few advanced skill or work out some combos with properly timed attacks. We got to watch all of this during a few fights with little crab-like creatures with glowing blue spines before a mini-boss fight with a larger one.