Two Worlds is an amazing, XBOX-era open world game which gets much right. I fell in love at a young age with Runescape's seemingly endless open world, where I spent hours traversing the arguably quite small free-to-play area. New cities were exciting, new dungeons and new loot could be found everywhere. I couldn't understand what the quests tried to achieve and I didn't care, I just followed the on-screen instructions leading me to new places. Two Worlds is exactly this, but larger, focusing on a vast open world with probably a hundred settlements, several hundred "points of interest" like graveyards, bandit camps, a surprisingly extremely varied combination of biomes and a huge potential for producing breathtaking vistas - something you wouldn't expect when looking at its otherwise quite bad looking up-close graphics. If you enter Two Worlds looking for breathtaking narrative, it ain't there. The narrative is written "in-character" for medieval times, which makes it iconic/laughable. Within a few hours it grew on me. All functionality you may expect from an open-world RPG is there, if only to check off a list of requirements for an open world. The whole experience as a result is one of genuine enjoyment when some aspect of the game is actually very well done. For example, I was surprised to find several optional quests in places far-off from the main roads with significant depth to them. In one instance, I had helped a necromancer get the rope from a gallows for his experiments, after which he asked me to test a doll which could kill groups of people in an instant. After completing both quests, he tasked me with getting more rope. As I went out into the world to find rope, the quest was marked "complete" and when I returned, to my surprise there was a guard outside who informed me that he was looking for the accomplice to a necromancer who was hanged for plotting against assassinating a ruler. Someone has put a lot of effort into some of these quests.
