Risen

Gothic 2.5

User Rating: 7.5 | Risen PC

By ergomane | Review Date: October 5, 2009

+ Runs smoothly (All max: Risen +60FPS, Gothic 3 ~30 FPS) and bugfree
+ Nice UI and gameplay
+ Good voice-overs
+ Gothic II -feeling
- Gothic II rip-off feeling
- Nothing new to discover for fans of Gothic series.
- Copy-paste skills, combat and mechanics from Gothic
- Underwhelming graphics. (Thanks to XBox360)
- World is small. (Thanks to XBox360)
- Slow-motion spiderman jumps.
- No 1st person view

It feels like polished version of Gothic 2 or better yet Gothic 2.5. And it's a great game if you are not familiar to the series, but if you are, you won't find anything new here. Graphics also look very dated and drawing distance is not very long. The story is semi-interesting and helps a lot. Character development may seem like versatile at begin, but in the longer run there really isn't that much options. Like you really cannot play rogue backstabber.

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