Risen Review
You'll enjoy this fascinating and intricate role-playing game in spite of its troublesome combat and scattered bugs.
After ruining a week end playing the game and going through many review here is the synthesis: * All reviews for pc are 8-10 and most reviews for xbox are 4-5, and for two good reasons: - control seems inadequate for... Read Full Review
16 of 16 users found the following review helpfulSoon-to-be hero gets washed up on an island with little background story to tell. Looks around, sees a branch and a couple of oversized chickens (sea vultures) lurking about. Also, he noticed another survivor, a woman. H... Read Full Review
3 of 3 users found the following review helpfulThere's never enough of good RPGs out there in fact, there's a lot of options on the market, but many are underwhelmingly boring and make you question if they're worth the usually huge time investment. Luckily, Risen is ... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpfulI heard about this game few years ago and I read favourable or unfavourable revews and finally i said: let's give it a shot. The game is a classic RPG: you perform quests and you gain XP. Sadly, the quets you perform are... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpfulThere's an angry user in the reviews fussing in all caps how you can't use Risen in Vista or 7, well, perhaps some machines running on those OS have problems, but I ran my store bought version of Risen just fine on Windo... Read Full Review
4 of 5 users found the following review helpfulLet me just start with this: If you are NOT a RPG fanatic then Risen is NOT for you. Ok, now that we got this out of the way we can proceed…Are you still here reading this? Good, then you love RPGs and play a lot of them... Read Full Review
2 of 2 users found the following review helpfulRisen takes place in Faranga, a fictitious volcanic, mediterranean island with different sub-climates and vegetation zones. The island is inhabited by humans, as well as many fantasy creatures. Recently, ancient temple ... Read Full Review
0 of 1 users found the following review helpfulI admit it: I was never a Gothic fan. I found it clumsy, ugly, and just not engrossing. I tried Risen expecting Gothic IV, and it's actually much better than I expected, but still retains some of the clunkiness and bugin... Read Full Review
1 of 2 users found the following review helpfulTo begin, Risen has been knocked off as terrible because of its graphics and controls, two ridiculous reasons to slate a game. The graphics are not top notch, but when you are playing the game you really don't care, desp... Read Full Review
0 of 0 users found the following review helpfulRisen is an RPG that doesn't seem to have attracted much attention. It's a somewhat low-budget European RPG that may interest certain audiences depending on what you're into. If you want somewhat of a twist on a cliche R... Read Full Review
2 of 2 users found the following review helpfulSo I've heard of a game called Risen 2: Dark Waters coming soon, by the sound of it, its probably a sequel to a game called Risen. So i rushed to the shop and bought it only to find that its another boring low budget ga... Read Full Review
0 of 0 users found the following review helpfulSome people say Risen is bad, others say its a wonderful game, and you know what? Neither of them is lying. The player has almost total freedom, but freedom comes at a price: so depending on your playstyle and in-ga... Read Full Review
2 of 2 users found the following review helpful
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