They somehow managed to make a brilliant game even more so. Every area of the game has been expanded and polished. Great atmosphere, lovely music (just like in the original), monster behavior has been reworked so now they are more tricky to fight, huge play area compared to LoG1, more spells and weapons, more replayabilty, more secrets ad treasures, and so much more. Most importantly however, it still is a dungeon crawl. Like the original, its very focused, there are no side quests, main quests, NPCs, doing chores for others, conversation etc. This way the game has a survival feeling to it, where its you against the island Love that focus. Also i must note that this has to be one of the quickest game startups in recent memory. You're in the main menu a second after launching the game. No bloated crap like with other games where you need to wait a long time to actually get started. Plus, only 1GB download. Just amazing.
Everything that was good about the first can be found here too. I never understood the complaints. I just finished the game a day ago and loved it. I really liked how fresh the game felt thanks to the setting and theme. Love the pirates, the voodoo stuff with the natives, the dialogue (often very funny), the characters, the pistols, the voice acting, the treasure hunting, the crew aspect, parrots and monkeys and ghost pirate captains and drinking rum and swearing and referring to the main enemy as that bitch Mara. Just a fun game. Does it have problems? Sure, though i can't remember anything that really bothered me. It's a great action/adventure RPG with a unique feel to it.
Everything that was good about the first can be found here too. I never understood the complaints. I just finished the game a day ago and loved it. I really liked how fresh the game felt thanks to the setting and theme. Love the pirates, the voodoo stuff with the natives, the dialogue (often very funny), the characters, the pistols, the voice acting, the treasure hunting, the crew aspect, parrots and monkeys and ghost pirate captains and drinking rum and swearing and referring to the main enemy as that bitch Mara. Just a fun game. Does it have problems? Sure, though i can't remember anything that really bothered me. It's a great action/adventure RPG with a unique feel to it.
A nice improvement over the original. Car deformation is spot on (and 15 years on still one of the best, the only other engine i can think of which comes close is Codemasters' Neon engine), car physics are well done (vehicles have good weighty feel to them), maps are big and interesting, many types of pedestrians to run over, jst a nice sandboxy atmosphere to the whole game.
