Gothic's a creepy for all the wrong reasons; filled with terrible controls and unbalanced gameplay.

User Rating: 3.7 | Gothic PC
By Old_Gooseberry | Review Date:
I played Gothic for 10 hours or so before just quitting because I just couldn’t stand it any more. This has to be the worst controls I have ever seen for a game. They've made the game as if it was first meant to be put on a console gamepad. But even that doesn't excuse why it’s so bad. I stuck it out for 10 hours because I really did get into the 3 factions you could join, and how you could do jobs for all of them. I even liked how the first town I went to was simple and easy to move around in. Problem is, many of the jobs you have to do require you to travel at a painful slow pace throughout the land. Ah, there is no map telling you where you are either, so it’s slow going. The only map is ones you buy, and they are useless.

There’s a very creepy feel to this game, and you’ll start to feel it fairly soon when you start playing it. For starters, there are no females anywhere (and in Gothic 2 I didn’t see any in the short time I played it). It’s not that there’s no females that is creepy, but what the character’s say to you that is really strange. Making all the npc’s gay was there great storyline idea, but too creepy.

Difficultly of monsters is too unbalanced. You simply don't level up fast enough because there aren't enough easy things to kill. So what happens is your forced to save the game before every single battle incase things go bad, or you fight a bad guy who kills you in one hit. Also you can die in weird falls off ledges. The games controls just are so that bad. Why do they throw in monsters that kill you in 1 hit???

10 hours this game couldn’t get any better, I knew it never would. Things just ending up the same, save every 2 seconds incase something huge kills you or you die from a glitch in the game. I haven't played Gothic 2 as much, but it has the same control problems. I’m not sure why this game got any good reviews.

The graphics are good, but they run clunky. I found it to run choppy either at 640x480 or 1600x1200, it didn't matter.

Gothic 3 is nearly out; I won’t bother looking at it unless it’s completely different. Add females please, and don’t give all the npc’s homosexual tendencies.

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