Arx Fatalis

My only advice whilst playing this game, is to not try and please all the different sides and playing the Paladin type. If you try to be completely good, you will end up running around doing boring fetch-quests for hours. Don't be bashful, slaughter all of the good goblins, trolls, humans, etc. WHATEVER YOU DO, MAKE ONE OF THE RACES ANGRY SO THAT YOU AREN'T BORED FOR THE FIRST 8 HOURS OF GAMEPLAY.

6 of 5 must play. 5 of 5 great story great gameplay. 4 of 5 great story average gameplay. 3 of 5 average story average gameplay. 2 of 5 play only if it's your favorite genre. 1 of 5 play if you have nothing better to do. 0 of 5 play if you're a masochist. -1 of 5 avoid. Arx Fatalis score is 5 of 5.

This game seems quite interesting and challenging, I just wish it would run. Saying this game is "optimized" to run on Vista is something of an exaggeration. First, save games wouldn't load. So, I tried running the game as administrator. Now, sometimes save games would load and sometimes not; not much of an improvement. Also, the game crashes to desk top randomly. Finally, I just wrote it off as a bad deal and uninstalled it. Maybe I'll try the Xbox version.

The game is clearly broken, even after applying the Arx Libertatis mod!!! The UI is fighting you, every step of the way, you can easily get into "Dead Man Walking" situations, and it's horribly unbalanced. Procced with extreme caution, and with lots of maps and walkthroughs!!!!!

its good its got the right stuff as far as gameplay goes but its a pain in the ass to get running and even more of pain to play stable wise, as always get on a discount because your gonna have to put in the time to make it workable since gog never will.