Railroading is fine if you don't force your players to solve a nearly impossible puzzle right at the start. Get your youtube walkthroughs ready boys and girls! Though.....those will only help so much with this game..
It definitely shows it's age! There's not the same polish and attention to detail that modern games have but it's not necessarily bad. Just a little rough. Some levels are poorly designed, voice acting is sub-par and some animations should have been tweeked a little. All in all, if it's on sale I don't think you'll regret buying it, but it definitely feels like an old game.
I really enjoyed Risen 3. Like another person had mentioned in their review, would I consider it a great game? No. But it provides to user with a lot of quality entertainment, even if the story is forgettable. I think where the main plot falls short, the 3 subfactions thrive. I spent a lot of my time in Risen working with the indigenous people and found a lot of fun out of that. Not only were the environments beautiful but the actual quests themselves were fun. My main problem with the game though, is the quest system itself. A lot of the quests seem to be linked to each other in a very frustrating way. Although not EVERY quest does this, it started to seem that in order to complete one quest you would have to start another....and then another.... and then another.... and then another (you get my point). After A while you've received like 6 new different quests just from trying to complete one! I think this was one of the reasons I stopped playing. The other was cause I got an xbox one and couldn't play my 360 version on it! All in all I think SUPER worth 9.99 and arguably still worth it's normal 19.99! It was a lot of fun to play when I was playing it and had plenty of challenging fights in it, even if it did have a few flaws
I really enjoyed this game. I played it for a few weeks off and on and although some reviewers on Youtube (like Angry Joe) thought it had problems, I was either able to easily overlook them, or (more frequently!) didn't even encounter them! There story is cool, but to me this wasn't what kept bringing me back. It kind of was forgettable overall (and I didn't finish the game so it very well might get really gripping later on). What really held my attention was sub-stories, gameplay, and even just the overall atmosphere of Risen 3. I really liked the indigenous group that you could decide to align with, and ended up doing as many quests with them as I could! But, as fun as these quests and things were, there were negatives about this game. The biggest one I can think of off the top of my head is how the quests are structured (not the stories themselves but the literal quests). I started noticing that I was having trouble completing quests because in order to finish one I would have to start another. And in order to finish that one, I would have to start another. And in order to finish that one, I would have to start another... You get where I'm going with this. Although not EVERY quest panned out this way, a large percentage did, and this not only was frustrating to people with small amounts of free-time, but also just simply confusing. I think at one point I had 5 or 6 quests that all were "linked" to each other! I guess in the end I still highly enjoyed this game when I played it (I have an xbox one and Risen 3 isn't backwards compatible yet), and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who wants a swordfighting game (with some guns) that can be unforgiving at times. It's also damn beautiful!
