As good as RPG gets
REALLY BAD THINGS
- Frequent crashes, I experience one or two crashes every time I play. Save often!
- Low framerate compared to other games with similar quality graphics. I have Geforce 7900 GT, 2GB RAM and Dual Core AMD 4600+, but I still suffer some serious framerate problems during hectic battles that makes it very hard to play.
ANNOYANCES
- Long loading times.
- Self shadowing looks really bad, especially on characters faces. But, you can turn the feature off.
- Even with all settings maxed out, the outdoor view looks a bit plain in the distance compared to for example Far Cry, with very noticeable object pop-ups (up close the outdoors looks amazing though)
- Some indicator showing how much various quests contributes to advancing to the next level would be nice. You never really know if something generates XP or not, or how much.
GREAT THINGS
- The scale of everything is just awesome.
- Lots of replayability, enormous amount of things to do.
- Graphics looks really nice and varied, especially the outdoors are truly remarkable. I was especially impressed with the fresh and alive looking forest.
- Spoken dialogue all the way sets the atmosphere perfectly.
- Varied quests, absolutely not your typical hack and slash dungeon crawler.