Run of the mill game that will excite NWN 2 junkies. Otherwise nothing new under the sun.
Drakensang has the quality and game-play that reminds me much of the first Neverwinter Nights 2 episode. The visuals are nice, but the game-play drags along. The story is predictable and boring. The background is run of the mill. Elfs, dwarfs, orcs, goblins, wolves the whole gamut of beings we are so familiar with turn up in this game. This is the kind of game you spent your time kicking in barrels to get at pennies and farthings. This is the kind of game where combat consists of rounds of combat. You can't tailor the way your character looks and a big chunk of your time is spent at listing to npc delivering predictive and repetitive lines.
Not only the gameplay is a turn off, the entire story and presentation is unimaginative. A mysterious man who orders your death and then disappears. The start of the demo you are more or less being forced to do something. "If you don't do this you won't get to the next area." You can hear the game designers say. That bodes well for the rest of the story.
After an hour I had enough of this.
A friend of mine is willing to buy the game and see if it is worth the trouble. Until he convinces me otherwise I avoid this game.
Drakensang might have bat eyes three years ago. And actually the game has been on the market in 2007 in Germany. Now it's to late to be impressive.