Sacred Gold

I picked up this game knowing very little about it - I just wanted a fun, mindless RPG. For the price offered here at GOG I figured I couldn't go wrong. I have definitely gotten my money's worth! This is a wonderful hack-n-slash RPG with an enormous open world. What I love best about it is the ability to do whatever I'm in the mood to do at any time. Explore the world, grind for XP, work on the main quest, work on side quests, mess around with gear. It's very non-linear and therefore a perfect waste of time for ten minutes or ten hours. Pros: Enormous open world Tons of quests Large variety of gear/items to play with Neutral: Combat system... don't love it, don't hate it. Cons: Crappy manual doesn't explain how to utilize some of the fundamentals of the game in even the most basic sense Respawn rate seems a bit too fast (for my personal taste)

Well I haven't bought sacred from gog, but I still have (and play) my original copy of sacred /w underworld expansion, and I must say this is a great game. There is a closed .net multiplayer hosted by ascaron servers, and a great community that still plays this game years after its release at the official us forums http://forum.sacredeng.ascaron-net.com Grab this one as it's a real gem!

Having never played the original release, I took a gamble on this one, as you never know what you're going to get with a "Diablo Clone". I do have to say, this game is an excellent "Click and Slash" adventure. The class selection is very good, with a wide variety of different heroes. The game itself is chocked full of baddies, loot and plenty of slash. Sacred did a great job of including multiple abilities for each class to help break up the clicking, and include a little strategy. Overall, the interface is very nice and easy to use, as are the maps, quest tracker, inventory management and character sheet. The graphics have also held up very well, and when run at higher specs, look very nice. Even on a lower end machine, Sacred is a very pleasant game to watch. Combined with the detail to the environments and characters, I would rate Sacred as a "must by" for those RPG players, looking for an easy to dive into game to whittle away a few hours.

First time I played it, it was pretty amazing. Unlike other games as old as this, this game is one of the few where you could choose the character. But when I played this game almost year later I started to notice the flaws. Firstly monsters respawn too quickly (but on the bright side - fast xp and much money at start). Secondly the clicking gets annoying when you kill someone because, when you release mouse button then the character finishes his blow and stands like dummy between attacking foes. And the creatures dropped strange things (wolf dropped gold coins, bears dropped swords). But it wasn't only bad things. Rich main quest line. Whole bunch of side quests. Detailed world. Easy to learn.

This is one of my all time 2d action rpg favourites. I first played it when it came out back in 2004 and i wanted to re-play it for years now, but the fixed resolution of 1024x768 always turned me off, when i tried. It was ok back in the day on an old bulky crt monitor, i guess, but nowadays with high-res monitors... I was looking for HD patches several times a couple of years ago, but never found anything. Now i finally did! This HD patch will render the game in 1080p and makes it look so much better! I just started a new playthrough, to revive the old times. Here's the link to the patch: https://www.gog.com/forum/sacred_series/german_language_hd_patch_without_rebalancing_here_are_the_links Enjoy!