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Gothic 3 Preview

GAME INFO
publisher: JoWooD Productions
developer: Piranha Bytes
genre: RPG

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
PIV 2000, 512MB RAM, 4.6GB HDD, 128MB video card
ESRB rating: T
homepage:
www.gothic3.com

release date: Nov 20, 06 (released)
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Piranha Bytes is tweaking creature intelligence in order to create a true to life in-game ambiance. AI-controlled creatures respond appropriately to the world around them. For instance, during your quests you may come across the so-called Hornrammers, peaceful beings that don't look for trouble. However, if they are provoked, they are extremely dangerous and could harm anybody or anything standing in their immediate vicinity. So the trick is to use this to your advantage, and make the Hornrammers go towards your enemies (if you don't want to fight them yourself). On the other hand, you can lure larger creatures into a city dominated by the Orcs. Huge T-Rexes can be found in certain places and can easily be "persuaded" to enter the city and scare the living crap out of the Orcs.

The game features a new graphics engine called the Genome Engine. Apparently, this new technology has done wonders for the in-game surroundings. When compared to Gothic 2, things have improved immensely. Every area has been meticulously designed and furnished with plenty of details in the backdrop. Piranha is constantly working to create a realistic world, so a lot of hard work was invested into making areas such as forests, deserts and snowy regions. Sadly, we'll have to wait a bit more to see how some of these sections look and feel like in practice. Character models and creature models appear to have received a radical make over. To illustrate: models in Gothic 2 were supplied with about 1,200 polygons, whereas in Gothic 3 each character includes 12,000 polys. We've learnt that motion capture was also used to bring some of these characters to life. When all is said and done, the visuals will clearly be one of the game's strong points.

The official website of the game offers a few samples of early tunes from the soundtrack. Listening to the first two tracks leads me to believe that we're also in for some decent game audio. Although I must point out that I wasn't all that pleased with the quality of dialogue in Gothic 2. Hopefully, that will change this time around.

There was much debate as to when the game will hit the stores, but for now the Q1 (or Q2) 2006 launch is the safest bet. According to the developers, there will most probably be a demo version of Gothic 3, prior to the game's release and they also specified that the Gothic 3 will probably ship on one DVD. There are rumors floating around that the developers are planning a console port, but for now the PC version remains their priority. (Unless they get a wink from MS, in which case they'll leap to the opportunity to make Gothic 3 a 360 exclusive title. -Ed)

In any case, I think we're in for a pretty hefty slice of RPG delight. If you enjoy a good RPG, Gothic 3 should definitely be amongst the top titles of your wish-list for the following year. (Also on Vader's wish-list: Chaps with Velcro on the thighs, hip boots and a big bag of Sheep-chow. -Ed)

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Zilor [mail] Dec 23 2005, 02:50 pm EST
My only issue with Gothic 2 wasn't that the combat system was weird, cause it was really quite cool, but it was the fact that when I held down the button so that I could perform my combos, whenevr I hit for a left swing my guy would 1 out of 3 times stutter/jump/move to the left fucking me up.

I figure I'm buying Gothic 2 gold and hoping that was some sort of weird issue I wont have again.
2lions [STAFF] [mail] Dec 23 2005, 02:59 pm EST
Was that game any good?
  Zilor: Gothic 2? I never got past the first town where you had to k...
thexray@85.255.79.4: Are you kidding? It's the best 3D RPG ever. I'm serious. Whe...
NiteX [mail] Dec 23 2005, 04:41 pm EST
Those screens look odd. Some of the map textures are so high res and good looking the character models seem to look dull and plain.
  skribb: Everything looked quite crap to me.
joetbd [mail] Dec 25 2005, 08:30 am EST
Gothic and Gothic2 are the sort of games I would like, but the controls, the inventory management, and the AI...

The Gothic world seems like a fun enough place,
but the game interface just is not fun (for me).
nickfx2 [mail] Dec 25 2005, 10:38 am EST
only one question. Do i have to play gothic 2 main game again to play the expansion? That was the issue with german version on forums.
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