Very standard storyline along with a lot of bugs
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So first of all you start off in a dungeon of some sort, you are chained up and you have your sister next to you with an evil guy talking about his plans for world domination... Ok maybe not world domination but at the time the guy was talking, my volume on my TV just suddenly went quiet so I had no idea what he was saying. Anyway, once that cut-scene has finished you awaken in a prison. You are getting escorted to your cell by the guards until they get ambushed by a bunch of orcs. Once the guards are dead, a mysterious female orc just walks through the door behind you, says something like "I'm here to save you" then says "follow me" without any other interaction between the two characters. I have 2 problems with this; first of all why didn't the prisoner asked "who she was" and "why she was there", second of all, the prisoner just follows the female orc without any consideration. For all he knows, she could of been hired to assassinate him. Maybe i'm being a bit too critical about this cutscene but for some reason it's bugging the heck out of me.
Second bug that I find REALLY annoying is the mouths on the characters. They simply do not match the voices what so ever. Have you ever seen a foreign movie and it has been dubbed to your native language? Yeah it was a lot like that. Maybe I just had a broken disk but i highly doubt that is what the cause of the problem is.
Third of all, the story seems pretty standard so far as its basically: Your sister is been held as a prisoner, you must save her and learn news skills on the way of doing it then once you've saved her you must defeat the evil and save all of the lands. It may have a few twists and turns in it but from what i have played and read, that is what the story is about which is pretty boring.
The following bugs and very minor but still annoy the heck out of me and make this game unplayable (for me)
-You jump far to slow, its like gravity in this universe is completely different
- Your hands start to randomly move when talking to a person
- When you move and you are in the middle of a convosation, you cannot go outside of a invisible barrier
- You sprint FAR FAR too fast, its actually ridiculous
- The AI's movement does not look natural. Its unbelievable how bad it looks when you watch somebody sprint (remember its extremely fast) around a corner
- Running down the stairs and ending up running on the banister
- The first quest you need to complete is very boring, does not have much interactivity and you spend most of the time following the female orc.
- Horses are bad. That is all i need to say
- You walk faster than your legs move. I don't know why this annoys me but it does.
- The split second freeze that happens right before a cutscene.
That list i have mentioned above is just some of the annoying bugs that are contained inside of this game that are noticeable within 30 minutes of gameplay.
Sure they are a few positives about this game but I cant be bothered to write more paragraphs as its late at night and I'm very tired so excuse the bad grammar.
In a nutshell:
Total Rating: 6.5/10
+++Pros+++
Cool armour
Player look is very customizable at beggining
Magic is very good
Beautiful environment
Towns
+++Cons+++
Buggy
Sprint far too fast
Defies laws of physics
Horses
Bad animation
FPS slow down during some parts of the game
Standard story
AI