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Gothic 3 - Reviews @ DriverHeaven & ComputerGames.ro

by Dhruin, 2006-10-28 03:53:15

ComputerGames.ro let us know they have published their review of Gothic 3, with a score of 85%:

In its current state, Gothic 3 is a game of contradictions. On one hand there are the bugs – graphical or gameplay related – which sometimes seriously affect the game experience. On the other, there are all the elements that contributed to the series success. Although it offers a minimum of 50 hours of playtime, depending on each player’s approach, Gothic 3 doesn’t get boring, even though it can get repetitive when considering the reputation system. If it weren’t for the bugs, crashes and long save / load times, it would have taken quite an effort to stop me from playing the game for 10 hours straight or more. As I said earlier on, sometimes you will feel that you’re playing either a beta or an unfinished version. A shame, it could have been the RPG, if not the game of the year. I can only hope that future patches will fix the more severe bugs and bring some much needed optimizations. Unfortunately, it seems that they won’t be released until the game is launched in the US, which might affect sales and the possibility of seeing a Gothic 4. But there’s still some time until then and there are already rumors about an add-on.

Also, DriverHeaven has a review with a score of 79%, although the text implies the review was written after limited play time:

Even with all the game faults, I decided for the purposes of this review to put in more time to ascertain if it improves. The extra hours have made me realize how beautiful this game actually is. I have not tested the medium or low settings in the game, but playing with everything maxed out is a sight to behold. The terrain is nothing short of amazing and on the whole the graphics look better than those in Oblivion. While there are some glitches that prevent it from looking perfect the sheer amount of details that can be seen on every object in the game is incredible. The shape of the terrain also makes the world more believable than the one found in Oblivion. Whereas Oblivion had forests and plains Gothic 3 features canyons, mountains, Niagara style waterfalls, deserts, snowy plains, lush forests and more. As if this wasn’t enough all of the world textures (ground, buildings, etc.) are normal-mapped to give them depth. The tradeoff is that the performance is somewhat lower than that of Oblivion, and the game becomes really ugly very quickly when scaling details down.

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Gothic 3

SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: Action-RPG
Platform: PC
Release: Released


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