Gothic 3

RPG with the highest degree of freedom in history, seamless map, open world game, I like it very much, very immersive. If you have the patience to play, you will find the real charm of Gothic 3, with many fantastic details. Players from China wish the Gothic Dynasty series more and more excellent, and hope that the Gothic Dynasty 3 can have a reset version.

While gothic 1 and 2 were basic games, at least they were functional. Nice basic controls and movement, actions, fighting. Then comes gothic 3. Its controls are laggy, unresponsive, visual glitches, and a ton of other problems. And that is just within the first 10 minutes of playing. Try just running forward. About a few seconds in you veer to the right or left, because the timing of movements seem to be lagging a few seconds, so if you want to turn right, you'll go forward a little, THEN turn right. Exactly when you don't want to turn right. Try fighting the very first battle in the game against some orcs. I was trying to hit stuff, and was just running into a building chopping at the wall, i couldn't even turn around to attack the orc hitting me because the controls were so horrible. I laughed at how bad it was. I played gothic 2 and was amazing, and they throw this dribble out as gothic 3? pathetic. Wanted to quit playing the first hour i tried to get the clunky thing to actually just walk in a straight line.

I never played this before the Community Patch, so it must have been a mess when it came out. The graphics are nice, the world is big, there is freedom to roam and lots to explore... The biggest flaw of the game is the story. It is not particularily bad, just...meh. There is far too little going on for a world this big. The fantastic characters of the past two games are also not present here. Even known characters from the last two games are lifeless and generic here. Also, inconsistent and illogical. Whoever thought up the idea that the Water Mages should be nomadic Desert People should have their head examined. The modern mouse control is maybe more modern, but the combat system is far more simplistic now. In Gothic one and two, your combat control skills actually mattered. Here, its just your characters attributes, and a clickfest. Quests are also very generic. I spent hours ridding the Northern lands of Orc armies. Litereally hundreds of orcs in several camps. When talking to the questgiving barbarian chieftain afterwards, he said something like: "Hey, thanks mate" and gave me an armor and some gold. Epic!

All in all Gothic 3 isn't a bad game. It is actually quite enjoyable, once all patches (including the inofficial community patch) are installed. But it just isn't as great as its predecessors and it feels unfinished, even with most of the bugs removed. Too much emptiness, some NPCs seem too generic. One keeps running into situations where one has the impression: "Ah, here the designers had a nice idea - and then ran out of time and didn't implement it fully." Summary: lots of potential wasted. If you're a hardcore Gothic fan ... you probably already have this. But if you are new to Gothic, rather start with 1 and 2. Their graphics may be worse, but they still are far superior games.

This game could have been a great game but as other reviews have said , game is buggy even when patched lost count the number of times when the game froze and as for the story how many orcs do i have to kill, lost count must have been 300 hundred plus and the ending is a let down, so only 3 stars the best gothic game is gothic 2 by far.