You'll enjoy this title...it's a must have for RPG fans. Game would have been better with more flexibility in character creation. Added races, abilities, etc would have knocked this game out of the park. Despite the limited characters to play and the lack of an online component this game is still very good. The graphics are nice, with a 3rd person perspective. The sound is good. The multiplayer (someone on another controller) is good. But it is possible to get your friend (or he get you) stuck and killed if you don't stick fairly close. A split screen would have been better than multiple players playing on one screen. The overall world is fairly large, but some areas a bit confining. There is some replayability as you can play as one of the other premade characters. The story line and play is a bit more linear than I prefer. I prefer being able to do what I want when I want, such as with a game like Morrowind. But, you'll be stuck to playing along with the story on this one. You'll not be able to take a world tour as you'll have to finish a levels missions before you can move on to another area of the world. Once you move on, there's no going back.
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