I'm a big fan of gothic. so when i heard there was a 3rd i bought it right away. right off the bat i noticed that the mele combat system isn't as skill oriented as the 1st or 2nd. alot of moving back and forth with awkward blocking. The 2nd gothic combat seemed much much better. also right away i noticed the great texture quality but the same gothic model look. unfortunatly the graphics come at a big cost. Loading time take almost 5 min to get the game up and running, if you die the reload takes a little over a min. Not only that but the game has the longest save time i've ever seen (the game frezzes for 30secs to save your progress) plus some problems with choppy frame rates. Luckly by turning down a few unnecisary options i got to to run fine. On the plus side, classes have that same great gothic feel to it. spending point on various areas to make unique customized charicters. On top of that even more options are given to choose sides durring quest allowing mulltiple possible answers to one given problem. All of the abilities seem much more expancive with great possable weapon combinations. things like duel weld, shields, magic blocking with staffs and much more.

all in all i would recomend this to fans of the original gothic's. but the feel of the game and its tech problems would be a bit too irritating to somone new to the gothic world.