Risen

Unlike Gothic 3, there is no "publisher rushed the release excuse" here. The only problem is that Risen isn't any better than that game.

I didn't last long in this one. After 2 hours of play i was running round in circles, had no clue what to do and no one wanted to talk to me. When they did they told me to do random stuff that i got no direction to, had no clue where was and couldn't see on a map either. Also people would constantly send me in a direction where i couldn't do what they told me. I know some people love these games, but i get bored out of my wit, if i have to wander around aimlessly trying to figure out what the fudge to do. And then there is the combat... that was just horrible. The world, characters and story did absolutely nothing to draw me in either. I'm sure there is a decent game in there somewhere, but it is just not for my taste.

sometimes ist even better. buy it

Gave this game about 3+ hours. Combat sucks and amounts to just blocking enemy thrusts, hitting once or twice and hope they don't randomly dodge or just decide to start attacking and enemies are almost never stunned by attacks. You could manipulate the blocking tho if it wasn't seemingly random. Early areas you can't take a hit against most enemies without dying. Voice acting is very stale. Audio mixing in this game in general is obscenely quiet. Is there even music? You can skip to later parts of quests but you'll still talk to people as if you haven't done them. Early quests are uninteresting and in order to get any armor or upgrades you have to grind pretty much right at the start just to sell or give things to get money. Also NPCs can be attacked by you accidentally and they can also die, and what's funny is one did die to a swamp monster and everyone acted like he was still alive, lol. You can level up but I'm not even sure what it actually does? You can't obtain skills through you have to buy them from other people. I also swear I bought the alchemy skill but I still couldn't make potions. Using the bow is worthless and barely does any damage. All in all. This game was boring and apparently the sequels are even worse? Glad I didn't buy them on sale.

The game looks great and seems to be a lot of fun but there is no v-sync option, it tried some settings with my video-card (amd hd) but it does not sync, same with wine on linux.