Very Very Fun but a bit system demanding and some broke elements
According to Zero Punctuation this was the worst game ever created on the PC.
I soon found out otherwise as my computer failed to load the first scene in over half an hour.
After a visit to Fry's and a memory upgrade, I began to play again.
He is right in saying that the first two Chapters are rather boring, and you do run MMO styled gather (this item) in (this amount) and come back to me. This element never really goes away.
Now the fun part is when, you're protecting a shipment and a bunch of Scoi'tal otherwise known as Squirrel Tails attack a shipment you're defending for money.
You can either let them walk away with the shipment to "treat their wounded and feed themselves" or beat them to a pulp.
This is your first encounter with the Scoi'tal vs The Order of the Flaming Rose in the game, The Squirrel Tails are an organization of Elves and Dwarfs and human sympathizers who consider themselves freedom fighters for social injustice. In reality they are more like Eco Terrorists in how they work
The Order of the Flaming Rose is a knight order that has some non-human tendencies really born out of the hatred already in the city. They restore order and tend to uphold a code of chivalry. All this goes down the drain in the ending chapters as they being to slaughter civilians and non-humans even if they're not squirrel tails.
This choice that you're giving is long and profound and when you have to make the "final" choice of which side to choose your options are based off your previous actions. Which is pretty much Neutral or the side you helped.
During the Climax of the game all of this comes together and actually branches off into 3 endings, in a burning city.
Very fun ending that will leave you wanting more.
Also combat, although boring to play is very fun to watch at later levels as your guy jumps on people's heads and decapitates them.
A bit like an extreme version of Knights of the Old Republic.
Overall very fun but some of the actual gameplay mechanics are lacking.