Gothic 3 Review

In addition, the game was choppy as hell on a top-end AMD-based rig as well (with most of the visual settings maxed out). The constant freezes during the loading of new game areas even on a system with 2GB of fast RAM were frustrating to say the least.

I just love frozen pork chops.

Since when do skeletons bleed?

Gothic 3 has an admirable soundtrack, featuring numerous themes that set the right tone for a fantasy RPG. All of these were performed by a real-life symphonic orchestra by the way. The excellent score is, sadly, accompanied by crappy voice acting and unbelievably corny screams and shrieks coming from certain characters (Orcs, mercs, thieves, etc.).

When you take the time to install the necessary updates and fixes, Gothic 3 becomes a highly involving action RPG with a variety of quests to complete, an endless number of unique-looking locations to explore and plenty of characters to interact with. Although you won't find a lot of character depth and the back-story certainly seems vague at the outset, there's still enough to reel you in. It's important to emphasize that Gothic 3 becomes progressively interesting after you've spent a few days immersed in its intriguing world of interactivity, exploration and combat. The open-ended world is teeming with foes to fight and treasures to discover. Furthermore, the game brings forth many new fighting styles, spells and other abilities to use during your adventures. Again, I definitely recommend you try the game, but I also stress that you're gonna need a solid rig as well as the latest release of the game.

The lads at Piranha Bytes must do their best to iron out the aforementioned issues as soon as possible. In the US, Gothic never really got the feedback as it did in Europe. Gothic 3 was supposed to change things. It was meant to be the ultimate installment that would bring the franchise closer to the US gamers, but given all the technical errors I'm not sure that's possible.