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Into the desert

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The time has finally come for the third Prince of Persia game. The Two Thrones.

I did like the second game in it's series and was ready for some blade swinging action once again when The Two Thrones had it's release. But after hearing a customer in our game store neglecting it, for a few very delicate reasons, I thought I should wait. Which I now have done.



So now I'm finally ready for some "acrobatic-blade-swinging-desert-themed action" - to actually see if it does lives up to it's name.

Edit: I can not say that I am impressed. The controls seem a bit un-tacky and un-responsive and the sound.. it is just.. horrible. The musical score is OK, but the noises the prince, enemies, weapons etc. make is just.. wrong. The are duplicated and disorienting which ruins the game. A lot.
The level design isn't very impressive either (I've just finished playing God of War for PS2) which is a quite important fact for me. I will probably be on "hold" with this game and see if I'll get the courage back to play it some more. But for now - no.

Oblivion vs Gothic

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It is incredible how much some people actually can piss one other off.
Take for example this (over)hype of Elder Scrolls latest instalment Oblivion. Sure it's quite an interesting game, but much of the game mechanics is stuttering and is sometimes utterly wrong.

Nothing of this did me, my brother and closest friends have to endure during some of our happiest time in the Gothic II world (no, I did not forget Gothic 1, but I prefer to reefer to its latest instalment). The NPC's felt much, much more alive since they actually had some real personality. Sure. There are something Bethesda calls personality in Oblivion, but it's not even close to what Piranha Bytes achieved in the Gothic games.

Screenshot of the upcoming RPG

My issues, like you’ve probably already understood, are in the overlooking of one of the greatest RPG's of all time. Gothic. And now when Gothic III (3) is on it's way out (September 2006 if I'm not mistaken), I really hope people will give that game the same chance they’ve given Oblivion, which they even before it was released, given an "greatest RPG of all time"-status. Totally and utterly wrong.

So do me - and yourself as an RPG fan a favour - and do try Gothic's third installment when it is released, and see if you'll still belive Oblivion is the crowned king of RPG's.
Because there is a big chance you wont.