Sacred 2 Gold

Ah, Sacred 2. I actually have a physical copy of it still sitting around somewhere, and although I absolutely love RPGs, I never went past the first part for several reasons, the least being the repetitiveness that comes with the genre - you can hardly get anywhere without killing at least a legion of rather clueless monsters, which will soon do very little for your XP bar. The second reason were the rather frequent crashes, which may or may not have been fixed at some point - to be fair, it's been a while since I touched Sacred 2. But by far the worst thing was an escort quest where you had to get two soldiers back to safety. A trivial task, considering the two clueless combatants were surprisingly tough, but as soon as they entered about the same hemisphere as an enemy, they would engage it in combat while CONSTANTLY yelling "the entire company to me!" and "help, I am being attacked" or something. And I mean constantly as in without any break, making you pretty much want to switch sides and splatter your escortees across several monster lairs. When the game crashed just as I was about to be finally able to turn in that quest, I decided to just play something else. Which is a shame, because I really liked the first Sacred and the skill combo and customisation system.

Sacred 2 is a deeply flawed ARPG. However, it has its own charm, a nice pacing (if you know what you are doing) and a lot of humor. The clichés and unusual combat are just part of its charm. For me, it will always be remembered as a relaxing game from a time before games took themselves too seriously to try anything different. I just can't give it 5 starts because it is practically mandatory to play with the Community Patch, and you need to read some wiki articles to understand how character progression works, but if you like to collect loads of loot in a gigantic open-world environment, it is a very nice game to play.

The game is cool but sometimes when i enter areas too fast, the game simply freeze, the voice and music keep working but the main thing won't. Real shame.

After Sacred Gold took so many hours from me, it was refreshing to be back in Sacred 2. I`ve always loved the Sacred universe and the gameplay. Recommended game.

In my opinion Sacred 2 is a great game. The gameplay is decent, the character system is nice and offers space to experiment. But what really makes the game stand out is its huge, open world. You can move in any direction freely and explore the world the way you want. And you will always find something useful or interesting. There are lots of towns and places scattered around, offering a tremendous amount of quests (around 600 in the main game, around 200 in the addon). What I also like very much is the graphic design. The game is, despite its age, still very nice to look at. It's beautifully designed with many details. In my opinion it looks way better than Diablo 3. And most important, the game manages to create that certain flow, that makes you wanting to play on and on. Not to forget that the game doesn't take itself too serious, so you'll have to smile from time to time (e.g. the inscriptions on the tombstones). Unfortunately the game still suffers from lots of bugs. On Windows 7 x64 it doesn't really run stable. I strongly recommend anyone, who wants to play this game, to install the community patch (latest version is 0140). It corrects many bugs an adds some new content as well.