A truly fantastic game, not without some issues, but one of the most enjoyable for ages.
You start mainly as a fighter, but you have no onus to continue along this path. Thievery, magic and ranged combat are open career paths to you, or a combination of them all. As well as choosing your style of play constantly throughout the game you are able to choose whom to serve, orcs or rebels, then how noble to be. Steal and be caught and there are consequences, there are also consequences with anyone you chose to kill. It's your choice but the results of your actions give the world of Gothic 3 a real coherence.
The game is beautiful - excellent graphics. The music is top quality too. Normally I turn off the music in games such as these, but not in this one.
All the speach between your character and the NPCs is spoken, which is a really nice touch. Having to read box-fulls of text can really detract from any RPG. But, speach like this really adds to the great atmosphere.
This game has issues. But it's worth forgiving them for the rich pleasure of playing this game.