Everything is perfect except for two things
The technical part is as bad as it can get, I have an 8800, 2 gigs of ram, a 2.66 core 2 duo and whatnot, yet it still displays frame rate issues and sometimes 4 hours into playing, starts chugging really bad, and unless I restart it, it will crash because it "ran out of memory." If you use some of the user made ini configurations it'll help a bit, though the game is technically unacceptable. I'm hoping that the new expansion may help.
Now for the combat, melee wise, it is very shallow, yet it could be acceptable since the game has so much else to offer were it not for the animals, they have some weird ability to evade up to 5 attacks in a row by backing up, then launching 3 consecutive attacks themselves, which make them very frustrating.
all-in-all though, I found the game to be very enjoyable actually, and I even managed to play through it. So if you're a big RPG fan, and your computer is somewhat up to date, this should prove an otherwise enjoyable game experience.