I bought this game thinking, hey a hack and slash game in the might and magic universe, what could go wrong? boy was I in for a surprise.
TL;DR terrible combat most of the game is travel from place to place and the story is almost nonexistent.
The Pros:
I'll start with the good stuff because there's less of it.
1. dialog is spoken, which is a feat even by today's standards, for most characters except for the monsters you meet later.
2. graphics are not bad considering the year it came out, and there's a mod for updated textures on moddb.
The Cons:
1. Terrible controls, this is mostly in combat, you have to aim with the mouse where to strike but there's no crosshair or something like that. this also applies to the platforming, which is annoying because of the semi tank controls that the game uses.
2. Getting around is rubbish, there's a map of the general world and it shows you which part of it you're in now, but that's about it. no mini-map, no local area map, and with the fog to cover the awful draw distance I had to use the old maze tactic of sticking to the right wall to get around.
3. Voices are badly acted, 'nuff said.
4. had a ton of technical issues with it, won't run on 1080 only on 1680x1050. and no music, so I had a choice between the annoying footsteps or silence.
5. most of the game is empty, and this is before oblivion gave us fast travel, so you have to repeat certain areas in order to return to the quest giver.
6. like older titles, this suffers from "guess what each thing does", or have a wiki open for every item you pick up. very immersion braking, and annoying.
7. it is not clear at all times where you need to go, so I had to look at a playthrough to finish some parts of the game because wandering around searching for stuff isn't fun.
those are the main issues, buy at your own peril.
