it's quite different from Gothic 1 and 2 although there are some hommages of Gothic2(especially NotR). at first, it looks like dumb downed a lot. lots of cutscences, looks linear gameplay(at Caldera), game pauses when you use inventory or searching boxes. but at some point, you realise that game gives you freedom to progress the game yourself not like G1,2 or Risen 1. but unfortunately, each islands feels too short and not much things are connected each other. but at least another step to non-linear gameplay for PB(other steps were G3 and NotR which were better)