User Rating: 8.1 | Sacred PC
Initially Sacred looks like the kind of game Diablo II should have been years ago. It's the same isometric viewpoint cleaving-skulls-in-twain rpg/adventure game. Unfortunantely the balance seems to be way off on the first difficulty setting, Bronze. Playing as the combat-heavy Gladiator it should only take a few hours of playing before your character can cut through dozens of foes without suffering much more than a scratch. The first parts of the game are especially easy on the Bronze difficulty. The next step up, Silver, is the reverse. Enemies are -much- tougher and the vital potions that appear in abundance on the easier setting are mostly absent.