Arcania - Review Flood #5

More Arcania reviews from the US or the UK, Spain, Italy, France, Germany and the Netherlands.

• RPG Codex - see other newsbit
• TQCast says: "Gothic 4 is NOT a bad game, but it’s also not a great game. It’s most certainly not the first three games in the series, but maybe that’s not a bad thing. This new direction could be good for the series, as long as they take some constructive criticism for Gothic 5. [...]" - 3.5/5 (XBox)
• bit-tech concludes: "A sad day for the Gothic series then. In attempting to appeal to the mass market, JoWood has alienated its core fan base while not doing anywhere near enough to get the casual crowd on board. It's difficult to see who'll end up playing this, other than the developers, JoWood executives and us poor games reviewers." - 5/10, which according to their scale means Arcania is mediocre.
• DemoNews.de - Two reviewers with contradicting opinions, final score 74%, "good".
• iamgamer.de - 51% (XBox)
• bignside.de - 3/5 (XBox) - Good as an action-RPG with Gothic scenario. As a game not interesting for Gothic fans.
• Xboxdome.de - 5/10 (Xbox)
• Tweakers.net - 7/10 - Superb "playability" (10/10), very good graphics. The only real weakness is the lack of "Gothic feel" (3/10). The author as a Gothic fan knows Gothic is unique and can't be compared to other RPGs like Risen.
• GameKult - 5/10
• 3DJuegos - 7/10
• VandalOnline - 7.5/10
• EveryEye.it - 6/10
• Multiplayer.it - 5.5/10

A few links were found at World of Gothic.