Risen - Review Flood #2

The 2nd batch also includes a couple of international reviews.

• ePrison.de says "[...] Risen is less mystic than the announcement promised, but instead a very beautiful and entertaining RPG[...]" - 88%
• Gameswelt.de updated their review with impressions from the XBox 360 conversion made by Wizarbox. They laud nearly perfect controls and identical content but criticise that compared to other multi-platform games the conversion technically "leaves a quite harrowing picture und reminds not seldomly of titles for the first XBox". -77% for XBox 360, 82% for PC
• Gamers.at = GamersPlus.de made their print review available online. 90%
• French site Gamekult.com gives 8/10 - Très bon
• gamona.de believes Risen is "As Gothic 3 should have been: Risen is Piranha Bytes' best game so far!" - 87%
• Austrian site GamingXP likes Risen. I don't see a rating, but according to WoR it's 88%.
• jeuxvideo gives 17/20. Their summary is very colourful: "Durant les premières heures passées à arpenter l'île volcanique de Risen, où le mot d'ordre est la survie, vous aurez l'impression de vous adonner à une simple variante de Gothic. Puis, à la faveur d'une progression lente, mesurée et crédible, le titre exercera sur vous son irrésistible pouvoir d'attraction. Terriblement exigeant, jusque dans ses combats très techniques, le nouveau Piranha Bytes perpétue les qualités de ses prédécesseurs tout en se montrant plus gratifiant que jamais. Doté d'une IA très convaincante et d'un univers dense et riche, source de multiples interactions physiques et sociales, Risen est un excellent jeu de rôle qui affiche un degré de finition inespéré." Babelfish delivers a good translation.
• The reviewer on the German site Spieletester says: "I like Risen. It's what Gothic always wanted to become: a solid, semi bug-free and stable RPG with action-adventure attitude." - 84%
• XGN.nl tested Risen for XBox 360. They like the game - and surprisingly also think it looks pretty good. 8.0/10
• Technic3D.com (German) gives 89%: "Risen is exciting, entertaining and especially bug-free. Piranha Bytes irons out the Gothic 3 disaster."
• The generally critical Eurogamer.de gives Risen a "narrow 8" for PC and "narrow 7" out of 10 on XBox 360. "If you have the choice, definitely get the PC version. It simply looks better." 
• Looki.de thinks Risen is "as addictive as the first two [Gothic] parts" - 85%
• InsideGamer.nl published a short review, as it seems of the PC version. The think Risen is a game which does almost nothing wrong, but stays within the limits of the genre. They also mention the graphics are outdated. "But if you can look through here, you will see the true beauty of the game." (auto-transl.) - 8/10
• nignside.de's mascot looks at Risen with wide open, bloodshot eyes. According to their review policy that's the equivalent to "great". Only open eyes, not bloodshot, and a crown on top would be better. Quite an interesting article.
• PC Games.de posted a walkthrough.
• Sister site videogameszone.de offers first impressions on the XBox 360 version - but no rating, although they like the game as much as PC Games! See below.
• And finally GameStar.de shows us what most countries won't get: Risen - Boxenstopp: Collector's Edition im Detail. The vid is almost 12 minutes long.

According to the videogameszone article above, Deep Silver announced they will deliver a patch for the XBox 360 conversion within 4 weeks after release, to eliminate graphics issues. The article says "So far the game stutters and includes many pop-ups. The announced patch is obviously meant to fix these problems."