Too broken to live up to its potential.

User Rating: 3.9 | Gothic 3 PC
By dev-null | Review Date:
This game could be great, but it's too broken to be much fun.

When people who have systems that exceeds the recommended (as opposed to minimum) requirements cannot play the game out of the box due to poor frame-rates and performance issues, you know there are problems.

If you have the patience to tweak the .ini files, deal with dodgy patches, and deal with constant memory errors, then the game can be quite fun.

If you don't have the patience, then don't bother with this game until a few more patches have been released.

Of course, the last two patches created worse bugs than they resolved (for example, corrupting savegames, causing the game to crash when loading save games, etc....) so it might be prudent to wait until it is confirmed that the patches actually WORK.

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