Gothic 2 Gold Edition

I really wanted to love this game as on paper it has all the things I look for in a RPG. Sadly the horrendous control system has killed any chance I will make it past the first few hours play. I'll explain further: The mouse control is sluggish even with the sensitivity turn up to max, this means trying to turn with the mouse while walking forward causes you to miss where you are trying to get to and you can easily lose track of your opponent while in combat (yes, you can lock onto a target but that involves taking your hand off the mouse and is a pain with multiple opponents). Soooo I tried ignoring the mouse and used the keyboard instead, only brings its own quirks as strafing seems way too sensitive and yet turning is not fast enough, also although it is a 'free roaming' system you have to wait until you stop walking before you can do an action (read something, pickup an object etc) doesn't sound like a big problem only when you release a movement key IT HAS TO FINISH THAT ANIMATION FIRST so if walking forward and you release the key it has to finish stepping forwards first, this adds an extremely frustrating delay to any action you want to do. If you can battle your way through the controls I am sure its a very good, deep RPG but sadly I cant.

the first Gothic was the best one but Gothic 2 in almost as god as the first one and the addon in just great but first I must play the game minus the addon and afther you can play the game with the addon GOTHIC RULES (sorry form my english, not a native speeker)

useless, wouldn't run on Windows 7

am I the only one? surely not. the game crashed constantly on my Win 7 64bit. I just stepped out of the tower after TWO freaking hours spent ALT+CLT+DEL to close down the program and restarting it!

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!! It's not worth $10, heck, I wouldn't accept it if they paid me 10 dollars to play it! Out of nowhere, the game will just stop working during dialog. Or, you suddenly won't be able to save. You'll be able to keep playing, but alt+tab won't work, the windows key won't work, and the escape key won't work. The only way out of the game is by pressing alt+ctrl+delete and then you loose all of your progress! Dialog freezes the game and causes it to crash. Pushing escape to save only works half the time, the other half, no menu pops up at all. I've restarted the game 5 freaking times now with alt+ctrl+del and lost everything every single time!! This game is a HORRIBLE piece of crap! Playing it feels like the game designers spent a sum total of 3 hours building. It's GARBAGE!! DON'T BUY THIS!!