Risen 3: Titan Lords

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  1. rekuzar
    Aug 17, 2014
    10
    After the mediocre Risen 2, Risen 3 is a blast.
    Combat: Much more fluent and tactical. You need to learn the behavior of the different enemies and time your attacks. Also the magic system seems to be influences by Avatar The Last Airbender which looks just pretty cool.
    Animations: Not on par with Witcher 2 but a huge improvement, better facial animations and less overacting when it comes    After the mediocre Risen 2, Risen 3 is a blast.
    Combat: Much more fluent and tactical. You need to learn the behavior of the different enemies and time your attacks. Also the magic system seems to be influences by Avatar The Last Airbender which looks just pretty cool.
    Animations: Not on par with Witcher 2 but a huge improvement, better facial animations and less overacting when it comes to gestures.
    The World: Beautiful and handcrafted as always with much more varity. Those who talk about "another pirate theme game" already indicate that they haven't played even 10% of the game because yeah their are caribbean islands in the beginning but also much larger, mediterranean ones. The animals are sleeping at night, hunting others and just overall have a great level of detail. I never saw a world designed with so much heart.
    Content: I'm about 25 hours in still have so much to do just playing through all island in the second chapter. Around 50 hours should be possible for one playthrough with is absolutely fine.
    Story: Well I guess the biggest letdown as always even so they try to direct it in a much more "epic" way what makes it even worse. Even you can't tell a good story just make it more optional like Skyrim did.
    Minigames / Naval Combat: Minigames like drinking are fun, but the biggest thing is the adaption of the naval combat. Finally you feel really like commanding a ship and fighting sea monsters. Awesome!
    Character system: Much more perks and attributes to skill and everything well fit together. Also the 3 different guilds will enable you special abilitys as well as their own questlines.
    Moral system: Besides the nightmare sequences which give a foreshadow of whats coming and motivating the hero to move an, your "soul" level will have influence which of 2 ending you will get which also adds to the replay ability besides the 3 different guilds.

    I guess that its for now.. all in all not a milestone because of the lackluster story but besides that you get a varied, skill based rpg with a beautiful world to explore and tons of things to do. Have fun!    … Expand
  2. Psychoticrow
    Aug 16, 2014
    7
    Combat - 3/10 Because its both easy yet incredibly annoying. I feel like they are trying to hard to be unique when simpler methods work extremely well. It feels like an after thought at best.

    Graphics - 4/10 I do believe graphics are important and this game isn't terrible but it's definitely behind several years. Even if just the spells looked better I would have rated it much better.    Combat - 3/10 Because its both easy yet incredibly annoying. I feel like they are trying to hard to be unique when simpler methods work extremely well. It feels like an after thought at best.

    Graphics - 4/10 I do believe graphics are important and this game isn't terrible but it's definitely behind several years. Even if just the spells looked better I would have rated it much better.

    Story - 7/10 Story is alright but it's not told terribly well. I find myself getting so bored of the endless conversations of nothingness I just skip 90% of them now soon as it drags out.

    World - 7/10 The world is open and there are things to kill and people to talk to and thing to collect everywhere but the fighting is annoying and boring. The people are boring and the landscapes all look just about the exact same (I guess it is a tropical area but still)
    Fun - 5/10 At times I enjoy myself at other times I'm so bored I'd rather do something else.
    This game is cheaper than most and for that reason I give it a boost in score and would recommend it for the price. Just don't expect to be impressed.

    Verdict - Game does nothing new for the genre and does nothing exceptionally well. Combat is silly and annoying at best. Game looks so-so at best. Story is somewhat intriguing. Dialogue can be painstakingly dragged out.    … Expand
  3. ThE_MarD
    Aug 16, 2014
    0
    Heyyo, this is another broken Risen game... Pirana Bytes yet again seem to never learn their damn lessons... enemies attack in 1/10th of a second yet the player has a full second animation on his sword swing... brutal.
  4. MartinX33
    Aug 16, 2014
    10
    Well, like others have said before me, Risen 3: Titan Lords may not be a 10/10 game, but I feel I simply must compensate for the brainless haters who give it 0.

    If you are looking for an action packed, gore filled game...then look elsewhere. Piranha Bytes' games have never been about mindless slaughter, but rather deep and careful exploration of the rich environment, carefully crafted    Well, like others have said before me, Risen 3: Titan Lords may not be a 10/10 game, but I feel I simply must compensate for the brainless haters who give it 0.

    If you are looking for an action packed, gore filled game...then look elsewhere. Piranha Bytes' games have never been about mindless slaughter, but rather deep and careful exploration of the rich environment, carefully crafted quests, interesting characters and total immersion. Risen 2 may have strayed away a bit from some of these factors, but I can confidently say that Risen 3 has certainly improved greatly over it, and the feeling and atmosphere of the game is much more reminiscent of the original Gothic games and the first Risen.

    One of the biggest complaints of the previous game in the Risen series was the combat system. This time, however, not only is the magic system back, adding greater variety, but melee combat feels much more satisfying, and it's certainly NOT a left click fest - if you want to defeat a strong enemy, you must dodge, block, riposte and time your hits.

    Risen 3: Titan Lords is a game for all the players who loved Piranha Bytes' classical works. Perhaps the plot isn't up to par with Gothic 1's, but nevertheless, as the final game in the series, it has certainly lived up to its promise to go back to the roots - the more observant fans will even notice some very pleasant surprises involving familiar characters from times gone by.    … Expand
  5. Elvekings
    Aug 16, 2014
    5
    Игра не то что бы УГ, но очень близка к тому.
    +Единственный более-менее плюс - это красиво нарисованные пейзажи и освещение.
    +Атмосфера, да есть какая-никакая атмосфера, которая создана благодаря отличной работе левел-дизайнеров. Каладор - просто прелесть, как в миненталь попал, а уж присоединившись к демонхантерам, получается еще лучше, как будто охотник на драконов, во 2 готике.    Игра не то что бы УГ, но очень близка к тому.
    +Единственный более-менее плюс - это красиво нарисованные пейзажи и освещение.
    +Атмосфера, да есть какая-никакая атмосфера, которая создана благодаря отличной работе левел-дизайнеров. Каладор - просто прелесть, как в миненталь попал, а уж присоединившись к демонхантерам, получается еще лучше, как будто охотник на драконов, во 2 готике.
    +Сиськи Петти, циничные и язвительные комментарии духа инквизитора Мендосы.
    Минусов полно.
    -Анимация - просто нет слов, театр деревянных буратин. Лицевая анимация - отсутствует, морды с деревянной мимикой, в mass effect 2007 года и то лучше.
    -Боевка - тоже УГ. Кликаешь мышкой, ставишь блок, если NPC начинает атаку из 3 ударов (а она у 90% NPC атака идет серией из 3 ударов), то будь ты хоть "Я-Мохаммед-круче-всех-Брюс-Ли", ты все равно не сможешь ее прервать и будешь выгребать. Но к середине игры тебе будет глубоко наплевать, т.к появится магия делающая тебя неуязвимым.
    -Кривой ИИ спутников, которые нужны только чтобы хоть как-то отвлечь врагов, но запросто могут застрять в камне или неторопливо пешком идти до моба, который месит тебя.
    -Ролевая система, nuff said. Квесты - убогие: сходи убей, пойди-принеси, собери n фиговин и сдай квестодателю... просто шик. Сложные квесты с интересным сюжетом, моральным выбором, эффектными кат-сценами... нет, не слышали.
    -Морские битвы - это полное говно, такое впечатление, что кто-то из пираний поиграл в Assasins Creed 3 и решили запилить морские бои, как там. Только получилось настолько убого, что хоть святых выноси. (Сцены абордажа корабля пирата-Моргана и инквизитора-Себастьяно - копии друг друга, почти абсолютные, именины только модели с пиратских, на инквизиторские.)
    -Из кремниевого пистолета и арбалета можно стрелять, аки из современной Бретты, вообще без перезарядки, ну и мазать в упор, просто шик.
    -Ни эпика, ни пафоса, ничего.
    Вобщем вывод печальный на метакритике userscore совершенно справедлив, игра на 5 из 10.
    Складывается такое впечатление, что парни из Pyrania Bytes за то время, что выпустили в 2005 году аддон "Ночь ворона" к Готике 2, не включали телевизор, не смотрели ютуб, не читали статей, не играли в другие RPG. И если 1 Risen им более менее удался т.к они во многом просто сваяли Готику 2 на новом движке и с новой легендой, а на волне разочарования готик-фанов от 3 и 4 частей серии это стало некоей отдушиной, да и в целом для 2009 года было еще неплохо.
    То в 2014 году выпускать подобный проект, да еще 800 рублей за него простить. Это нонсенс, тут ничего нет, ни квестов, ни сторилайна, ни отличных персонажей, и разумной боевки ( в готике 2 и Risen 1 было и ту лучше)... ничего. Пиратский сеттинг - уныл, после Assasins Creed 3 морские бои тут - без крови из глаз не взглянешь (AC Black Flag не беру в расчет т.к он говно).
    Вобщем я кое-как прошел ее до конца, но я рад, что не заплатил за это. И не дай бог, если разработка окупится, тогда нам в 2016 году представят снова эту же игру.
    З.Ы было бы лучше, если бы они в месте с JoWood Ремастеринг Готики 1 и 2 сделали на движке Risen 3. Было бы куда как лучше.    … Expand
  6. kish1975
    Aug 16, 2014
    10
    I say this is the best RPG this year , the story is great and there is a lot to explore plus you can go to any island you like from the start . The combat is fine better then 1 and 2 and as a risen fan I love how they are consistent in the mythos of the franchise .
  7. bioxtreme757
    Aug 16, 2014
    0
    This is actually Risen 2 with updated graphics, about 80% of the game looks, feels and plays exactly like Risen 2, however the combat is a lot worse because of the fact that that you fight as if your character is frozen, the enemies themselves are unbalanced and unfair, and you need to get lucky in order to win against enemy A.I, not because they are smart, but because your "bad-ass"This is actually Risen 2 with updated graphics, about 80% of the game looks, feels and plays exactly like Risen 2, however the combat is a lot worse because of the fact that that you fight as if your character is frozen, the enemies themselves are unbalanced and unfair, and you need to get lucky in order to win against enemy A.I, not because they are smart, but because your "bad-ass" character moves with the grace of stone statue.
    I have seriously tried to enjoy the game, but I just cant, after 13 hour it still feels unsatisfying, annoying and stiff, no effort was put into this game and I cannot recommend at all.    … Expand
  8. Follbern
    Aug 16, 2014
    0
    Risen 3 Titan Lords-very bad game.There spirit of old school,but we need to understand,that spirit of old school end in 2004.Game have weird animations,bad voice acting,bad color gamut,and this list can be endless.By modern standarts this game deserves -10/10.We should "congratulate"Deep Silver and Piranha Bytes with this "greatest"game in series.
    Sorry for bad English,author is Russian.
  9. northernlad
    Aug 16, 2014
    7
    having plunged deeper into the game its still no gothic but the best risen game from pb please remake gothic 1/2 or a new start in the gothic erahaving plunged deeper into the game its still no gothic but the best risen game from pb please remake gothic 1/2 or a new start in the gothic era ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................… Expand
  10. InsaneDweller
    Aug 15, 2014
    0
    This is a **** game, I haven't seen bad combat in long time! **** all the people that say it's good! And the game looks like something from the PS2 or worse, also terrible voice acting and poor story! Just a **** game.
  11. Markavian
    Aug 15, 2014
    1
    This is no grand RPG, pirate theme is back, even though at some point they stated they were getting rid of it, combat is just frustrating right from the start and doesn't get any better. Movement isn't smooth, bad voice acting. Better off replaying Witcher 1 & 2 if you want a good RPG and cheaper too.
  12. Frika
    Aug 15, 2014
    3
    The game is horrible on almost every level. Anyone that gives it anything above 6 is either a loyal fan/supporter or a person who hasn't played a single good RPG in their life. Being a fan is not a crime but it removes your objectivity which is what a reviewer should be all about.

    The combat has almost the same issues as Risen 2: Your attacks can be interrupted by enemies,enemies    The game is horrible on almost every level. Anyone that gives it anything above 6 is either a loyal fan/supporter or a person who hasn't played a single good RPG in their life. Being a fan is not a crime but it removes your objectivity which is what a reviewer should be all about.

    The combat has almost the same issues as Risen 2: Your attacks can be interrupted by enemies,enemies attacks are almost always faster than yours which makes it almost impossible to hit. Dodging is nothing more but a game of hit and run which will most likely provide you with a win but also extend the battle with a single mob to 2-6 mins per mob which is spend in running around like hedless chicken. Guns and rifles seem to miss way too often and especially at the beginning of the game to hit like a wet noodle.
    Overall the combat system is really really bad if i had to give it a score i would go with: 1

    Voice acting is equally horrible. The voice actors sound bored and uninterested with their lines there is nothing to actually grab you or hold your attention to whats happening. There is no tone of emergency or emotions for that matter which turns the whole experience like listening to your neighbors talking about how bad the weather was today.
    Voice acting: 2

    The story is really bad as well not only that but thanks to the bad active it just feels underwhelming and uninteresting. No immersion what so ever
    Score: 2

    Graphics 4: Although i encountered some issues with the graphic overall its probably one of the (if not the) best features of the game. And that is considering that they aren't anything special or great
    Score:4

    Sounds: Nothing impressive or unique here but i guess at the same time they aren't so bad as well i had a few issue here and there but it was mainly minor stuff which i am more than ok neglecting since almost all games have some minor issues especially at lunch.
    Score 4

    Quiet a few of the areas were copy paste from Risen 2. In general i am ok with developers reusing areas which they had in their franchise if they show that they've actually put some effort into doing so but in many places you can see that they simply did a good old copy/paste just for the sake of giving u more to see/explorer.
    Showing that level of 'creativity' is working against the overall score of the game noone likes this type of practices and i don't think people should be paying twice for the same content under any circumstances,

    Overall the game experience is crap i don't think its worth anything close to 50$(or 60$ with dlcs) and those of you who are willing to give the game a shot should wait for a heavy discount before touching it. I am certain that some of the issues will be adressed however just like Risen 2 the majority of the stuff (voice acting,combat system) will not be changed in any way. Overall i would recommend that people stay away from the game if you are an RPG fan who is looking for something fresh this is not the place to find it.    … Expand
  13. AJSADevon
    Aug 15, 2014
    1
    First of all this game's combat system is so clunky and terrible it's almost funny. The voice acting is some of the worst i have ever heard, The main character sounds like Christian Bale. This game is only worth about 3-5 dollars. Please don't listen to non-user reviews they were most likely payed to give it a good review.
  14. graywolf15236
    Aug 15, 2014
    10
    Risen 3 is one of those games you can consider as a real RPG game. It doesn't have to be 10, but I gave it 10 because the stupidity of casual gamers nowadays is unbearable. If this game was named "Elder Scrolls", "Final Fantasy",... or belong to some crappy mainstream well-marketed IP, it would have got a 8-9. But no, the world was never meant to be fair.
    Risen 3 is made by Piranha Bytes,    Risen 3 is one of those games you can consider as a real RPG game. It doesn't have to be 10, but I gave it 10 because the stupidity of casual gamers nowadays is unbearable. If this game was named "Elder Scrolls", "Final Fantasy",... or belong to some crappy mainstream well-marketed IP, it would have got a 8-9. But no, the world was never meant to be fair.
    Risen 3 is made by Piranha Bytes, the creator of Gothic. Gothic is an RPG game got released way back in 2001, and back in the day this game was a truly revolution, it has a whole 3D world with completely free roaming gameplay and non-linear story. There are many features that games back in those days don't have, e.g swimming, climbing, voiced dialogue,... but Gothic has it all (this is where people who claim Morrowind was a revolution need to do more homework)
    So what made Gothic become such an unfamiliar name for many gamers today? It wasn't well-marketed, same as Risen franchise. The sad truth about humanity is that we tend to believe in fancy advertises than a product's quality, if "unfamiliar" games like this coming out of nowhere, people will try to make it looks as bad as possible (unless some fools like PewDiePie doing his stupid commentary for the game and it suddenly gains a large fanbase later).
    I must say it's a miracle that Piranha Bytes still manage to make more games. Since Risen 2, their games were made with low budget and the quality shouldn't be expected to be some AAA crap that the publisher spend more money on advertise than development.
    Despite the low budget, Risen 3 was developed with all quality and heart, the graphic is kinda outdated but still great (whoever says it looks like a PS2 game is probably too stupid since they never knew what was PS2 graphic look like), the combat was a huge improvement compare to Risen 2. But nonetheless, the immersive, the atmosphere, the writting,... everything stuff that make Piranha Bytes's games amazing are still there.
    If you are a REAL RPG player, this game will suit you best. Whoever said it suck (same as saying Risen 2 suck) are probably too stupid to realise what a RPG is.    … Expand
  15. thepassionate
    Aug 15, 2014
    10
    Great game! I can't believe people are bashing this fascinating piece of jewelry! I'd be surprised if these folks wouldn't name "Skyrim" a better rpg. Well, it's the new generation, what can you do! 10/10 game. Best in its category.
  16. qidrucil
    Aug 15, 2014
    10
    Almost as good as gothic 2. I really enjoyed the immersion, the dialogues, the fighting mechanics. I am indeed in love with this game! It has humour, it has feeling, it's just an amazing experience all-in-all, but not for people who are fast players. You have to get immersed and take your time with the game. It's not Hearthstone or whatever you kids are playing nowadays.
  17. RealQi
    Aug 15, 2014
    10
    Amazing game. The american audience is missing the point - again. When it first came out, 3 days before it arrived in Europe, it already had 90% bad reviews. But beware - it's an european game and it is better than any american-made open-world RPG. Suck it up.
  18. drizzt
    Aug 15, 2014
    10
    Ok, I feel I have to write a review because this is ridiculous. Of course the game is not a 10, but the stupidity of people giving it 1's and 0's has to be countered.
    These must be coming from Angry Joe fans who want to turn the series into a meme and get angry because people actually enjoy it, or Skyrim fans who didn't know what they were getting into before spending their money.
    I    Ok, I feel I have to write a review because this is ridiculous. Of course the game is not a 10, but the stupidity of people giving it 1's and 0's has to be countered.
    These must be coming from Angry Joe fans who want to turn the series into a meme and get angry because people actually enjoy it, or Skyrim fans who didn't know what they were getting into before spending their money.
    I understand and completely agree with most of the criticism coming from Gothic and Risen 1 fans, but this game has improved a lot of things from Risen 2, the exlporation is great, the factions are interesting , the scenery is varied and it retains that Pb charm. The combat is improved but still not good.    … Expand
  19. ditpet
    Aug 15, 2014
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The pros are the spirit and mood. Caribbean islands are perfect, they hide so many secrets. The clothes customization is good. And thats all.
    Contra: Fight system...I hate it. Very hard to hit the creaturesa and monsters, they attack to often. (2hits/sec). Thats why I cannot use the heavy hit with my sword. The monsters push me back when I load the powerred hit, and it zeroes when I fly back from the enemy hit. Enemies chase me always, almost impossible to escape. Too much enemies. When I try to escape from an unballanced fight, I meet at least 5 more enemies during running from my previous fight. At the end 5-7 enemies chase me and chase me and chase me until the infinity and beyond. This is the worst part of the game.
    When I accidentally hit a friendly NPC during a fight, it gets angry and starts to attack me, and ...read above....cannot escape from it.

    Toooooo much missions, When I talk to an npc, 99% that it will give me a total useless quest. Get lost bag, find plant, kill beast, .... (do not worth to complete, too much annoying fight to get a package/plant, and get too small reward. And I cannot cancell the quest, it just fills my logbook. makes harder to see it.
    Less, but more interesting, more rewarding missions would be better.

    Main mission: what is the main mission? Im totally lost. Get crew? Get ship? Get back soul? How? Where should I start? Is there a progress? Or all main missions just put together, and do it in the order you like it?

    Conversation: very boring, robotic speech. the camera always jumps to one player to one npc. These camera jumpings are very exhausting to my eyes.

    Bugs: Oh my sweet mama.....so much bug, Wow, so pesky, much glitches.
    I had to start from the end of the crab coast, because the Booze mission got stuck. I should get eggs for Harry, but this speech option somehow disappeard, and nor Harry, nor Booze not communicate with me....I could not proceed foward with them. And I had not savegame before I met them first.

    Camera: already mentioned the conversation jumps. But when I fall down, the camera stucks, and sets into an impossible angle.

    All in all this game is very half-baked, and old. Built onto an old base of a buggy game. It is not good in 2014. They should have forget the elements of the first game TOTALLY. Mainly the fight system (read above). Among the others the physics are outdated, there are moveble wrecks, rocks, and bodies, but still not enogh today.
    Fight, bugs, camera, physics are the most negative part of the game. Why did they used the old method? it was long tim wrong. It was annoying in the gothics, and in the older risens. (I could not finish the Risen 1, because these. I didnt want to get into the mental hospital.)
    I had to cheat, Im not proud of it, but these points make the game unplayable. I had to counter-ballance them. Now I have 100 sword stat, and the most powerful sword in the second island (Kali, or what), and I bought every learnable stats from teachers. it makes the fight little bit easier, but the fast enemies make it bad.    … Expand
  20. expellite
    Aug 15, 2014
    5
    Unfortunately it's now what I was expecting it to be. Before getting the game I gave it 10/10. You know I thought that Risen 3 deserved that score and the other users are just unfair but after playing the game for a few minutes it made be unfair too cuz the game isn't fair itself. To make a short story long, Bound by Flame was way better and more enjoyable. As you know it was a so-so gameUnfortunately it's now what I was expecting it to be. Before getting the game I gave it 10/10. You know I thought that Risen 3 deserved that score and the other users are just unfair but after playing the game for a few minutes it made be unfair too cuz the game isn't fair itself. To make a short story long, Bound by Flame was way better and more enjoyable. As you know it was a so-so game but Risen isn't even a so-so one. It's just not what we all were expecting. Don't waste your money guys. Go for Forced, Torchlight or something like that.… Expand
  21. Stinkypuff
    Aug 14, 2014
    10
    Can't believe the bad reviews! It is a game you really need to give a chance but once you do you will find a really solid game here! The pirate theme here isn't over the top like it was in Risen 2. It has that unpolished gothic feel too it - which I count as a pro! To be honest it probably doesn't deserve a 10 but it definitely doesn't deserve the 0's that these **** are going with. I'dCan't believe the bad reviews! It is a game you really need to give a chance but once you do you will find a really solid game here! The pirate theme here isn't over the top like it was in Risen 2. It has that unpolished gothic feel too it - which I count as a pro! To be honest it probably doesn't deserve a 10 but it definitely doesn't deserve the 0's that these **** are going with. I'd honestly give it an 8!… Expand
  22. angarvin43
    Aug 14, 2014
    0
    Here are the facts of Risen 3:

    - maps are almost the same as Risen 2 - monsters, NPCs, and even dialogues mostly are directly copied from Risen 2 - same core game mechanics as Risen 2, with even worse combat - same pirate theme as Risen 2 (no surprise, right?) - pseudo open world, islands are just a collection of corridors with jungles as background (same as Risen 2 again)    Here are the facts of Risen 3:

    - maps are almost the same as Risen 2

    - monsters, NPCs, and even dialogues mostly are directly copied from Risen 2

    - same core game mechanics as Risen 2, with even worse combat

    - same pirate theme as Risen 2 (no surprise, right?)

    - pseudo open world, islands are just a collection of corridors with jungles as background (same as Risen 2 again)

    - still the fetch quest structure, kill something or bring the NPCs some loots (no improvement)

    - addition of some elements from Risen 1 which are removed in Risen 2

    - crappy voice acting and design of dialogues

    - boring and slow-pacing plot

    - this "sequel" is on sale for $50 (WOW!)

    I hope this can help everyone for making purchase decision ;)    … Expand
  23. Chaeote
    Aug 14, 2014
    8
    First impressions: Better than Risen 2 (which I liked for the most part, though the story got a little...meh).

    It definitely feels more like Risen, but I have to say that I kinda like Risen's intro better. They didn't give you much detail, but the scale of the island fit with it well. It let you get into the game slowly, and putz around for a while before throwing you into the deep end.    First impressions: Better than Risen 2 (which I liked for the most part, though the story got a little...meh).

    It definitely feels more like Risen, but I have to say that I kinda like Risen's intro better. They didn't give you much detail, but the scale of the island fit with it well. It let you get into the game slowly, and putz around for a while before throwing you into the deep end.

    This game, TRIES to do that, but immediately after the prologue you're hit with about half a dozen directions to go in, and twice as many quests sending you there. There's no indication of where you should start (Hint, go see Admiral Alvarez first.)

    Also, SO much of the game is locked behind faction choice from the very beginning, even Patty (your own SISTER), won't even join you until you get a bigger ship, and the only way to get THAT is to... join a faction.

    Also, Just the first couple spells you get from Joining the faction make the combat SO much better and easier. Before that, it's not just hard, but PUNISHINGLY hard (Dark Souls feels EASIER then the early combat in the game.)

    I love the 3 factions, and I'm curious about the re-playability they add. I just wish they didn't force you into RIGHT away, and gave you a bit more info on them beforehand, I had to go and watch the 3 factions trailer on YouTube to understand what they each represented.

    I don't want hand holding, but at least at the start of the game give me a hint!

    The combat is okay, though the speed is a total hindurance. It's not so bad if you can concentrate on one enemy with your party member. But, right when you start combat, all the enemies immediately aggro you and ignore your party member unless they manage to land a hit. So you end up with 2 or 3 guys hitting you while your party member duels a single enemy. Which wouldn't be bad, but you swing SO goddamn slow, they any time you try to hit a guy, you get interrupted and stun-locked/knocked down. Forcing you to just stand there and parry until your party member takes out their opponent and then comes over to help.

    This gets better once you get a couple spells from your faction under your belt (I went Demon Hunter, and the Hellhound Summon, the Heal, and the Teleport are a godsend in battle).

    So far, i like it, I'll keep playing it, but there's some hurdles you really need to get over right at the start of the game which can put some people off.    … Expand
  24. Blackcompany
    Aug 14, 2014
    1
    Terrible voice acting, poor casting, awful, sluggish combat mechanics. A block/parry feature that simply...doesnt work. At all. Ever. Terrible camera and controls. Production values that are nowhere near in alignment with the asking price.

    Avoid this title.
  25. Ziptar
    Aug 14, 2014
    10
    HINT: версия в стиме выглядит графически получше, чем скачанная мною до релиза пиратка, возможно, новый билд; выводы делайте сами.
    Впечатление:
    1) Действительно открытый мир, хоть и поделённый на острова. Да, есть области, закрытые для посещения до определённого этапа игры, но, учитывая боевую систему, позволяющую 1:1 убить любого противника при должной сноровке и степени усидчивости. А    HINT: версия в стиме выглядит графически получше, чем скачанная мною до релиза пиратка, возможно, новый билд; выводы делайте сами.
    Впечатление:
    1) Действительно открытый мир, хоть и поделённый на острова. Да, есть области, закрытые для посещения до определённого этапа игры, но, учитывая боевую систему, позволяющую 1:1 убить любого противника при должной сноровке и степени усидчивости. А учитывая наличие компаньона - так ещё проще. (Другое дело, что противнике-одиночки встречаются не так часто, и это сильные монстры). Так вот, учитывая боевую систему, расчитанную больше на кликанье мышкой и жмаканье WASD, чем на математику, ограничение доступа в области иными средствами, кроме как "непущать", нереализуемо.
    2) Боевая система значительно лучше, чем в Р2, даже лучше, на мой взгляд, чем в Р1, но до Готичной клавиатурной боёвки недотягивает (хотя последняя, конечно, на любителя - то есть на меня). Бой строится на трёх ударах с паузой между ними, если все три удара прошли успешно - противник либо падает (разные противники - возможны варианты "падения"), либо остаётся на ногах, если противник остался на ногах - перекатываемся, если упал - бьём дальше. Большинство противников не может прервать серию ударов, но некоторые монстры умеют это делать очень внезапно. В общем, всё просто. Удручает только то, что если запереть противника у стенки - можно проводить сколько угодно серий подряд, противник не сможет вклиниться между сериями (на монстров, прерывающих серию, не работает). Но это можно просто не юзать.
    3) Пасхалки на Готики. Приличное количество пасхалок на Готики. Когда я встретился с первой из них - я как будто ощутил удар кувалдой по лицу и окатывание холодной водой из ведра одновременно, ибо передо мной возникла картинка из Готики, как "живая".
    4) Не-линейные локации. Острова всё так же испещрены тропами, долинами, холмами, горками, речками и прочим, но есть выбор куда пойти, а не как в Р2 по проторенной тропинке.
    5) Много побочных квестов, в начале сюжета даются несколько целей, конечная из которых - присоединение к фракции, после этого нас бросают на произвол судьбы, хотя наш верный лекарь-спутник продолжает нас сопровождать.
    6) This is Magic! Магия вернулась во множестве обличий!
    7) В целом впечатления очень и очень положительные, игра безусловно затмевает Р2, и идёт в ровень с Р1 первых глав. Если сюжет не сведётся к зачистке пещер от людей-ящеров или ещё какой мерзости - для меня Р3 однозначно станет лучшей игрой в серии.

    PS за перевод Буке тройка с плюсом. Печаль.

    And.. why american morons don't like Piranhas?    … Expand
  26. real022
    Aug 14, 2014
    10
    I cant stop playing. Yes, cut scenes from 1999, and yes, bad voice acting.
    But I cant stop playing :)
    Btw, beside ugly cut scenes, graphic is really great, and world is so big and alive, and feeling is different than assassins creed world or gta. Everything in this game has some purpose. Dont listen to unfair critic of people who played this for 20 min. I am not in this type of    I cant stop playing. Yes, cut scenes from 1999, and yes, bad voice acting.
    But I cant stop playing :)

    Btw, beside ugly cut scenes, graphic is really great, and world is so big and alive, and feeling is different than assassins creed world or gta. Everything in this game has some purpose.
    Dont listen to unfair critic of people who played this for 20 min.

    I am not in this type of games, but Divine Divinity Original Sin and Risen 3 got me.    … Expand
  27. MaWo79
    Aug 14, 2014
    1
    First of all, I was a big fan of the developer Piranha Bytes and their past games including the first part of Risen. Since Risen 2 things have significantly changed to the worse and all continues with Risen 3. As a big fan of role playing games and fantasy in general I must admit that if this wasn’t a Piranha Bytes game I certainly wouldn’t even have notices this trivial, mediocre pirateFirst of all, I was a big fan of the developer Piranha Bytes and their past games including the first part of Risen. Since Risen 2 things have significantly changed to the worse and all continues with Risen 3. As a big fan of role playing games and fantasy in general I must admit that if this wasn’t a Piranha Bytes game I certainly wouldn’t even have notices this trivial, mediocre pirate game the slightest.

    To be honest, I never really liked Risen’s overall story of titans, vanished gods and the world faced with ruin and destruction. This is by the way one of my biggest concerns with Risen. There never really was an interesting, believable, existing world or universe and there never was any consistency in both story and world. I think Piranha Bytes didn’t even bother creating a functioning, living world. Everything seemed and still seems like a patchwork of different stories, lax ideas, changing gameplay elements, different designs, constant trials and coincidences eventually leading to the next game. The whole series lacks a common thread. Nothing of it has changed in Risen 3.

    Being fragmented into single pieces or islands which are only accessible by fast traveling, the announced big open world itself completely lacks a true open world feeling. In addition to that the islands with their ever-present rock formations and walls rather feel like mazes of corridors and paths than natural, vast open landscapes.

    I also don’t understand why Piranha Bytes dropped important role playing elements like the cooking of the first part in favor of a simplified system with provisions and why they still keep it although it was one of the unpopular points of Risen 2. There are tons of bad design choices like crafting, looting chests and picking locks in separate windows what kicks you out of the actual game world. There is a crappy combat system again although combat in the first part of the series was really good. I still don’t get it, they had an overall good start with the first game in the series and they only had to build up on their little success but in the end they decided to trash everything.

    If this was just a random colorful, fancy pirate action adventure with a trivial story and a world without any depth, created by a random developer I would have given it 5 to 6 points. (But I highly doubt that I would have ever bought or played a game like this.) Loving role playing games in general and knowing that this is Piranha Bytes’ newest game in contrast to all their previous great works and the fact that this game was advertises with the empty phrase “Back to the Roots” I refuse to give it any more than 1 point.

    This game and the whole Risen series (since Risen 2) is just a big letdown.    … Expand
  28. DimtheGreat
    Aug 14, 2014
    10
    A lot of user reviews here will come straight from the steam forums, babies looking for anyone else to cry with them about why this game doesn't look like COD:Ghosts.

    There's a reason why Metacritic has 2 categories of reviews, User and Critic. Critics are people who should (generally) be experienced gamers, who also have experience reviewing games in a professional manner. Users    A lot of user reviews here will come straight from the steam forums, babies looking for anyone else to cry with them about why this game doesn't look like COD:Ghosts.

    There's a reason why Metacritic has 2 categories of reviews, User and Critic.

    Critics are people who should (generally) be experienced gamers, who also have experience reviewing games in a professional manner. Users (generally) will not be thoughtful, well-read individuals who excel at fleshing out ideas and sentiments onto paper (or text in this day and age).

    We've reached a point in gaming where we have an influx of people    … Expand
  29. wallgomez
    Aug 14, 2014
    10
    At a fundamental level, Piranha Bytes' games divide modern audiences with remarkable consistency (forgoing Risen 2 which was objectively mediocre). Their intricate, small world RPG format has stayed for the most part unchanged over it's life as a company, and while some would berate them for their stubbornness against adapting to the modern RPG norms of vast open worlds and 'dynamicAt a fundamental level, Piranha Bytes' games divide modern audiences with remarkable consistency (forgoing Risen 2 which was objectively mediocre). Their intricate, small world RPG format has stayed for the most part unchanged over it's life as a company, and while some would berate them for their stubbornness against adapting to the modern RPG norms of vast open worlds and 'dynamic events', anyone tired of these tropes and elder scrolls bandwagonry will truly appreciate an RPG that for better or worse defies modern convention is pursuit of an intimate and intricate, dense world and collection of characters.

    Naturally it has it's problems, first and foremost a combat system that while adequate, feels shallow (although in my 10 hours I've yet to actually train up in weapon skills, so it's a yet unexplored facet of the game to me). Beyond this, the introduction of the world is a bit 'too much too fast', for me; after the short opening section of the game you're given a boat and free reign, which some may view as a positive, but I need some direction to avoid being overwhelmed.

    Some list the voice acting as poor, and I'll be the first to admit the MC sometimes sounds like Batman with his level of gravel, although mostly the issue is overstated considering the budget of the game.

    Considering everything though, with an excellent degree of freedom beyond that initial feeling of overexposure, a charming, personal and surprisingly diverse world, plentiful and mostly un-cliched quests, Risen 3 is a pleasant return to form from a developer that many fears has succumbed to consolitis after their previous game.

    As a disclaimer however, as mentioned in this start of this review, if you didn't like Gothic 1 or 2, or the original Risen, then you're almost certainly slated to not enjoy this.    … Expand
  30. SpawnCap
    Aug 14, 2014
    7
    This is a average RPG as far as graphics and combat with a large amount of gameplay and content. Realize some reviewers here give this game a zero along with some other AAA titles then give a crappy indie title a 10, I suggest you look at players accounts to see what they rate other games to see if their opinion is same as yours, and see if they made an account just to give a game a zeroThis is a average RPG as far as graphics and combat with a large amount of gameplay and content. Realize some reviewers here give this game a zero along with some other AAA titles then give a crappy indie title a 10, I suggest you look at players accounts to see what they rate other games to see if their opinion is same as yours, and see if they made an account just to give a game a zero score.

    Loot, Leveling, magic, grinding, and average graphics. I can see why this title gets a lower score, compared to other AAA titles it deserves a 5 or 6, compared to indie titles it deserves an 8.

    If you wanted the old Risen 1 and no pirates then this game isn't for you. This game has some pirate content, is somewhat open world, doesn't hold your hand explaining everything, and has tons of missions.

    If your looking for an rpg which has lots of content and don't care about dated graphics then this rpg is for you.

    I enjoyed it, graphics are indie title level and there was a ton of content which is hard to find sometimes.    … Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 49 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 49
  2. Mixed: 26 out of 49
  3. Negative: 6 out of 49
  1. CD-Action
    Oct 22, 2014
    75
    The Germans took a step back and reintroduced more of the distinctive atmosphere of the Gothic series and the first Risen, which is a huge advantage for me. The world is so vivid and lively that it really makes you want to be there and see as much of the vast content as possible. It’s a shame that the game’s engine is visibly aging and the story lacks the punch. [10/2014, p.48]
  2. SpazioGames
    Oct 18, 2014
    70
    The game is goo, but there are too many similarities with the previous installment of the series, and almost all in a negative sense, as neither the combat system, nor the AI ​​have seen some improvements.
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  3. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Oct 13, 2014
    40
    While the game builds on the legacy of its previous installments, it also repeats old mistakes. Only for the tolerant camp of the series' hardcore fans. [Issue#245]
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