Drakensang - Preview @ GameBanshee

Radon Labs' Drakensang has been previewed at GameBanshee based on experiences from the Leipzig GC a few months back:

This game has a budget of 2.5 million euros, which is a joke compared to the 20+ million dollar budgets you can see for RPGs like Oblivion. And it shows in graphics, which are aeons behind Oblivion or Mass Effect. But, in this previewer's opinion, shiny graphics are less important than the developer's approach to said graphics. In DSA's case, the world is quite well-crafted and looks quite good from a bird's eye view. The developers are paying a lot of attention to world design (including transferring a real-life fort 1:1 to the game) and from the demoed areas I saw it does show in the final product. Don't expect AAA-title graphics, but expect a well-designed world nonetheless.

Gameplay-wise the combat looks like the standard RTwP fare, with little innovations or detractions. I'm not a big fan of RTwP myself, but if you've enjoyed it in BioWare's products it looks well-executed enough here to be just as enjoyable, with a party to manage with spells and talents offering a bevy of tactical options.