I was really looking forward to this game and frankly was blown away by the financial support given (I was one of many). Unfortunately for the funding they had this game is simply sub par. Still ok but just that. OK. Perhaps a better word would be mediocre. For the price I would be looking to others such as Shadowrun. By time I had reached the third "scene" of the game it was actually becoming a chore to play. It was effectively, in one word, grinding. Most quests were the same thing over and over and frankly after like the hundredth time I was on a "search for some obscure item" I was sick of the game. The ending(s) were anticlimactic and honestly I'd rather have just turned the game into a scavenger style open world rpg than actually have it end. It was that bad in my opinion. Then there were the constant bugs the worst of which being the fact that almost every enemy in the game can hit you through walls but the line of sight is not bidirectional. They could punch, slice and shoot my characters frequently and sometimes I could not even run up to or get in LOS to fight back resulting in a restart. When you find yourself on the frequent save paradigm to prevent story line halts you know you have a game that has not received appropriate testing. The graphics were just ok until you looked at them closely finding them to actually, suck(women look like men, max headroom had more vertices) . The mechanics were glitchy(camera would fly off into nowhere, LOS broken constantly). The attribute definitions and use poor and unbalanced(luck and strength is insanely powerful). Weapon algorithms completely inaccurate and unbalanced(shotguns and submachine guns are useless just punch everything to death and carry an assault rifle). Honestly if you want this game my suggestion is this. Be glad it was funded and wait 20 years because then it will be 15 bucks because it will likely not drop in price much. This is a cash cow for the developers and I think they coded it drunk.
The basic mechanics of this game are superb and on the order of the best out there. Even when compared to some much larger titles and better funded projects (one of which I help fund and own). For the price this is hands down the best isometric, pnp rpg out there that I know of. I really hope to see more from this group and I sincerely hope they release Shadowrun Online on GOG and for linux as well. If you want a comparison I have this and Wasteland 2. Sorry, wasteland 2 was ok but seemed to drag. This game did not. The story line in Shadowrun is better. The action is better. The graphics are actually better but not by much and the mechanics are vastly superior. I found very few bugs in this game and none of them that were show stoppers. I actually bought this and dragonfall for myself and later bought them both for two other people because the game is just that good.
If you are into amazing stories, graphics and mature content you will be hard pressed to find a game that can even be compared to The Witcher 2. This game is not for kids unless supervised as other than it being a "game" it is an (US) R rated movie. There is no holding back in this story and this is perhaps what makes it so real. In a world torn by war, magic and monsters run amuck the only believable story would be one of complete and total grit. That is the witcher. Technically the game is amazing and works near perfectly in Linux and I want to thank the authors for bringing this title to us. I only wish the others were available as well. The only way this game could be any better is if it was as open of a world as the likes of Fallout 3.
