Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods Enhanced Edition

Having never played Gothic 3, I have to review this based on Risen 1, which seems closer to this than previous Gothic games. Compared to Risen, this game seems not exactly rushed, but as if there was no plan going forward - rather a vague idea what the story needs to be, with everything else tacked on. This expansion has everything you need to create an interesting story - castles, warring factions, and orc and human camps. It's very reminiscent of Gothic 2, despite having a fairly small map. Sadly, the small map is underutilized . The kings and leaders don't influence the story, and various monsters and locations have no quests associated with them. Such as the several dragons on the map, and a location with two ice golems and two fire golems very close to each other. I only learned of them by stumbling across them. Luckily Forsaken Gods doesn't inundate you with minuscule quests, but the ones you get aren't exactly big, difficult or memorable. Playing on Hard, the only difficulty was finding places based on vague instructions, leading to aimless wandering. Most monsters can be dispatched with fairly quickly, and most plants can be collected fairly easily, leading to an empty map. Leveling up occurs fairly quickly, most skills you can learn aren't required to finish the game, stealing is easy, better gear is bought, not earned, and most plants you collect serve no purpose. At level 40+ I became overpowered, but could have been OP sooner, if I didn't spend my LP on a myriad of skills. The game is also extremely buggy, possibly due to the large community patch I had to install to make the game playable. Characters I was tasked with killing just would keep returning to life, and other characters would get stuck in the environment, forcing me to backtrack in order to complete a quest. The game also ends on a whimper, by having one final monster to fight, which isn't very hard to kill. There are also far too many chests lying around the map,most with useless items.

sorry to say that, but this is the biggest pile of elephant s**t you will ever see if you buy & play that game. And $9,99 is a joke. But even 0,99$ would be, so what. Simply DONT BUY THAT GAME....

Bought this today for only $3.99 download went okay, and installation seemed okay but when I tried to run it on a brand new Windows 7 Home Premium installation it displayed the startup screen and then the screen went BLUE with lots of text and then did a screen dump and restarted windows 7, it does say on GOG that it works on XP, 7 and 8 so a waste of $3.99

other than the name this one has nothing to do with gothic series , if it wasn't for the community patch this game would be absolute horror , unless you are collecting all the gog released so far , avoid this terrible crap

The game is not bad in my opinion, but it's far far away from it's predecessors. The story is quite dull, basically just the final ending of the story of our hero. I gave 3/5 just because it was very nostalgic to me to visit the place from Gothic 3 once more.