Gothic 3 is one of the few games that really has a consistent world. You can feel the live of the world goes around the orc invasion. Your actions have consecuences. If you go against orcs, the orcs hate you and you can't access to their quest or if you go agains rebels there's no chance to enter to their camps without being attacked. The combat system is not perfect but it's entertaining enough. The story is interesting and there's a bunch of secondary missions to complete, most of them are to define to which side do you want to join. When you play Gothic you relley feel the inmersion in a live world that changes with your acts.

The worst part of Gothic 3 is the thecnical part. I think this games has a lack of 2 moths of testing to correct bugs and to improve the performace. I have to disable a lot of details to play it fluently. If I compare this to Oblivion this second one can look much better with more options activated.