Could have been so much more...

User Rating: 7 | Arcania: Gothic 4 PC
While Gothic 2 was a bug-ridden, unfinished product which often crashed and with a lot of quest flaws, Gothic 4 is highly stable and works flawlessly from a technical point.

Unfortunately Gothic 4 has been stripped of all the things that made me want to go back to a technically frustrating product:

- No sense of freemdom to explore the world
- Graphics are medium and default lightning is extremely bright so dark caves look lit...
- No choice consequences - makes for a mindless fighting game since there's no exploration...
- Horrific fighting system which makes fights very easy and down to the players own sklls
- Good that all conversations are spoken, but lousy quality which breaks immersion.

All in all, it was a fairly good story where choices and consequences was non-existent, roleplay non-existent, combat simplistic and very very easy. Replay value is nil since everything fells and plays out exactly the same.

It could have been so much more...