This game has one of the best settings, and ability to roleplay I've seen in most RPG's, and this is why Arcanum gets all of it's praise. However, the actual combat and story at times tends to be terrible and limiting. The technology using or dual siding characters are extremely limited against Magic users, thanks to terrible balance, the partner AI and classing options are terrible and can hinder your progress at times, and the game can be extremely hard at points for seemingly no reason unless you have a certain magic build. The storyline is mostly pretty decent, but at many points it's too vague and leaves you without any idea where to go or how to progress, and it can just seem to vanish at a few choice points. The game is indeed fun, if you can get around these major flaws, but to me, they make it unfun to replay, and stressing to play the first time.
