Risen

I really loved this game. You can easily spend 30h+ in this world, searching for secret spots, fighting hostile creatures, just exploring the (aged but still beautiful looking) world or following the story. The story, combined with the atmosphere make this game feel authentic. Every character has his place, no character feels wrong in his place. I enyojed playing this game. And I am sure you will as well.

Risen is great fun. The world is beautiful, (I know you hear that a lot, but this one truly is). game mechanics work very well, (well, mostly). and I enjoyed it thoroughly (and I Am a VERY hard sell). working the game quickly becomes intuitive and is easy. The biggest problem right off and for a LONG time, is that you don't have any armor, so you die a LOT. I died well over 20 times a battle many times, so save a LOT. oddly, for such a detailed and fun great game, quests (which were great when they worked) quests were sometimes (Seemingly often) unfinishable. Some are designed not to be completed once you "start a new chapter" or upon completing certain actions that negated their completion. while sometimes that even made sense, I felt robbed many times. I didn't have a manual or anything, but later looked online for walkthroughs, because many times I was clueless on what to do and it was NOT intuitive or anything you could figure out. Like the time I had to press a button TWICE to open one door, then twice more to open another. who would think to do that? Oh, the combat was a bit hard to get used to, but makes a great compromise between the character's skill learning and experience with your ability to actually DO the combat yourself, not just watch him do it at his skill level. THE thing I liked is that you could use TACTICS. Sure, we get the option to do over when we die, but the fact you can learn and try different options, not just rely on the game to do what it does is great. I bet most would love it. Definitely gonna try Risen 3 (2 looks like it had too much of what I think ruins the game, the giant, all powerful godlike beings in it)

You and Sara the Hottie get washed ashore on a beach, the game in the first half are great,fun quests, fast 3d engine ,great looks fast loading. , its in the later part in the game it get to much labyrinths caves and hard to find destination items for me to play it from start to end. 4 stars its not beer friendly to run around in dark caves looking for stuff. Still worth buying if you have patience.

If you played Gothic 1, Gothic 2 + addon, and all mods for these two and crave more? Go for it

This game is FUN, and ENGAGING, but it is NOT GOOD. Imagine if they had released Dragon Age: Origins a year before it was finished, and you've got Risen. Risen is around 50 hours doing everything there is to do. I noticed at hour 35 I got a screen indicating that I was now in CHAPTER TWO. So I wrote that down because dang, if chapter 1 is 35 hours then what can I expect from the rest? Well I'll tell you: Chapter 2 is 7 hours, Chapter 3 is 3 hours, and Chapter 4, the last chapter, is 4 hours, completing everything available as it becomes available. Most of that time in the later chapters is exclusively finishing up the story content, which I thought was pretty good. Leveling up is annoying; when you gain enough EXP to level up, your health increases, and you get 10 Training Points. You must then locate the person who has the skill you want to train, and pay them not only with those training points but also with gold (that scales to the ability level you want). So you pay for stat boosts THREE TIMES. Experience, training points, AND gold. In the beginning of the game this is utterly ridiculous, you'll make it to level 5 or 6 before you have enough money to put it into stats that are of actual use or allow you to do more than flail wildly in battle or actually flesh out abilities. And then, suddenly, you'll have more money than god and nothing to spend it on. Every single time you need to climb onto a ledge, knee height or higher, save in advance, because the game has a 99% chance of dropping you inside of the level geometry and breaking. This is such a problem that the game implemented a spell/scroll system JUST for every character to be able to cast "levitate" to get around the broken cutscene of climbing a ledge and disappearing into space. RATHER THAN FIX THE CLIMB ANIMATION, IT IS EASIER TO CAST A SPELL TO FLOAT OVER SMALL LEDGES. So get ready to look up how to give yourself 99 Levitate scrolls via console command. Other than that the game is pretty fun