Sacred Gold

Action RPG, very cool, you can play as a vampire, I haven't figured it all out yet.

Do you love Diablo and games that have you taking up a particular class to kind of save the world or something? Then this is the game for you. It really delivers for some hours of mindless hack and slashing just like other games in its genre. I can't say that I was too invested in the storyline and, sometimes, I got lost in the world. Overall, however, I had fun playing it and would recommend it as a game to escape into for a little bit. Is it memorable? That's for you to decide but I'd have to shrug.

This is a game from a german gamestudio. I really loved this game years ago. I had problems in my old days to get the game running smooth because the lack of hardware. Now I bought it again at gog. The first thing I see, this game is english only. There were so many good german synchro in this game. And now just the english talking. I can english, but I try to avoid it as much as possible, if there is a german variante. This thing is kinda expensive for this game. I switched from screenfun to Computer Bild Spiele as there was the main game in the magazine and one month later the add on. One Magazine cost like 4.50€ these days. maybe less. And this was a german version of course. The next is the installer which are just bad... I often had the problem, that I just got a temp install exe after downloading. Now, after switching the browser they tell me, they cancel because of an error. But if I rewrite the name of the install/error file I get a using exe... This problem is just with GOG downloads, all other work perfect. So I would give Sacred itself (the german version) a 5 star and Gog 2. Sacred were fun and I really loved the idea of finding skill stones for all classes and so get stronger. I played it through and got a mage with really cool meteor shower. The world is big and nice to see. One of the best Hack and slay I know.

I'm in two minds about this game. On the one hand it does a lof of things right - it's fun to play (upto a certain point), the spell system and the character classes are interesting but at some point the game gets boring and repetitive and you just lose interest in the plot (at least I did). Compared to a RPG game like, for example, Neverwinter Nights it's shallow and uninteresting. However, the pace is quicker. Compared to Diablo, though, it's very bland. I have to recommend only to get this if it's on sale.

I own the original version of this game. Sadly, I kept it on the shelf until right before multiplayer ended. This was a lot of fun and a great journey. My only complaint is that things respawn incredibly fast and as you have to traverse the same areas repeatedly, you end up fighting the same monsters over and over and over again. If there was a way to slow down the respawn, I would give this game 5 stars. And with the multiple characters and builds, there is a lot of replay value.