Sacred 2 is pretty crappy. The online is already completely dead due to how boring it gets. It has a nice looking and huge world, but the combat is snooze worthy. The character progression is also snooze worthy...most of the skills are lack luster too. I was really excited for this game...so it's not like I am slamming the game for no reason. It's my biggest disappointment of 2008. It's probably worth the purchase just to go through the main campaign once (which is chock full of cheesy dialog and corny jokes)...but only if you can find the game for a bargain.
My recommendation is Titan Quest + Immortal Throne expansion. You can get both for $20 on steam and it's far and away the best Diablo clone to date. Huge array of skills, multi class characters, awesome amount of customization, HUGE assortment of items of varying power, ragdoll physics (so combat has "oomph"), great boss fights, and lot's of replayability. They even do things like add new levels of items (legendary) to higher difficulties and add new bosses to keep things fresh. Plus, the graphics hold up nicely even today.
TQ has two issues though...one is it's so-so story. That can be overlooked as any ARPG the primary draw is the action and character building which TQ comes through in spades.
The second is it has open net for multiplayer. This is what really sucked on release for the game. Lots of cheaters online which can ruin the experience. The good news is you can still find legit games and the online is still pretty populated (more then Sacred 2 which is a ghost town).
Anyways, that's my opinion. ARPG's are my favorite type of games. I have pretty much played them all...even the really crappy ones like Loki.
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