From the beginning the visuals are amazing. The story too. I was quite suprised by kind of unskipable "minigames" on sea on your ship, but then I really enjoyed them. The fractions have quite a lot of different quests but on the other side very similar magic so it basicly doesent matter whitch fraction you will chose. That was a bit disapointment when I played it a second time. But overall amazing game with lot of very original quests and dialogs, amazing graphics, good combat system... It has everything I want from this kind of game and I really enyojed it. :)
Developers took away most of good things about Gothic and created this abomination. Linear quests, zero to none dialog options, incredible lax NPC (you can steal from chest in front of them in their house, swift a sword around them and they say nothing). Uninteresting game whitch you can play with your brain turned off. The graphics is nice, the combat system is fine...