role-playing

At first, I didn't think very highly of this game. But of course, how much of a different experience can you have within a few minutes? About an hour into the game however, I realized what a gem this is!

The Gothic 2 game world is beautiful and rich in detail. There is lots to do, and lots to see. And I think this is one of the major selling points this game has going for itself. It is a rarity for a game to have a sophisticated story line, and this game does. A lot of the things that happen do not require you to fight, which is also a rarity, and a welcome change. The world itself is more believable than other game worlds. Just walk into somebody's house, and they will get very upset and call the guards. Draw your sword in the middle of town, and people will not be happy either. It's just a lot more immersive than other games. Although some of the characters do get repetitive over time.

The fighting system takes a bit to get used to. At first, I hated it, but then I got to like it. Basically, one holds the left mouse button and uses movement keys to launch attacks or to defend yourself. This is a bit unusual and hard to coordinate at first. Once you get used to it however, it sometimes allows the player to win fights that one wouldn't win if it all just depended on a role of the dice. So overall, I like the combat system, I like that they had some new ideas there, but I do wish the exact implementation was slightly different. Overall, this is not a big problem though.

Its a fun game, the Artificial Intelligence is excellent, they go home at night, have a schedule, drawing your weapon close to one causes them to draw their own weapon and command you to put yours away. On the downside, there is ALOT of 'modern' swear words, something you probably wouldn't hear in Dark Age-Medieval times. But the graphics are great, alot better than I expected after playing Morrowind. The controls are my biggest complaint, if your attacked by a group of enemies, you are going to die, its very hard to fight more than one enemy efficently. You can forge your own weapons, thats very limited though, you can't forge every weapon, and you can't forge armor. The game isn't very glitchy, and pretty stable. As I mentioned above, the Graphics are great, not very high end, but look good none the less, the Envirorment must have has an IMMENSE ammount of work done on it, the people involed are very dovoted to making everything look believable and different. In the end, the swearing does cause me to take a star off, not because it offends me, but because it doesn't seem right to have in a Medieval Fantasy game, and the controls another star, but if your looking for an interesting RPG to play, this is it. Weather you like it or not is up to your style of play.

Are u pay by the company? The game is pathetic.