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STARFORCE !!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 63
Date: December 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Purchased Stubbs-Zombie, Spellforce Platinum and Gothic Gold.
I contacted Aspyr due to a "key bug" in Spellforce Platinum and found out(...customer support)Aspyr embedds STARFORCE in their games.
I won't write another STARFORCE review: read Stubbs or Spellforce Platinum on my view and others on STARFORCE.

I already own Gothic 2; great game.
IMO, it's better than Gothic, which I rate 5 stars.
Get the original; less potential problems.

Buyer beware -- Do NOT buy if you have "always on" internet access

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 28
Date: March 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I really, really wish I could write a good review for this game.

Unfortunately, I can't run it. Reason why? I have a firewall on my computer system. Advice from the company that makes it: disable the firewall. Sadly, with an "always on" internet connection like many people have these days (DSL, cable modem, etc), today that is simply not an acceptable answer.

Hopefully their next game won't have this fatal flaw. Oh, and just one star for me as well, for not researching this game better before I bought it. There's plenty of blame to go around.

What a disappointment

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 15 / 33
Date: March 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Bought this game on the strength of some reviews here but I was very dissapointed with it. Clunky control system really put me off.

Pretty overrated

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 13 / 32
Date: June 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The controls are very difficult and I understand they wanted "realism" but they killed a lot of fun by making you just so damned vulnerable to EVERYTHING. I'm a long-time gamer and I can handle a tough game but this is just frustrating to the extreme. Plus for all the people talking about immersion...I just don't see it. I just couldn't get myself to care about the world or story I was in; it didn't grab me like some games do.

Just get Oblivion instead

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 11 / 30
Date: August 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Graphics aren't the most important part of a game to me. I already owned Oblivion when I bought Gothic 2 because I was hoping it would be a darker and more mature "Oblivion" style RPG.

While it does have much more mature content than Oblivion,.. I never got to see it because of the bad controls,.. bad collision and lack of fun. (By bad collision I'm talking about your character walking through or getting stuck on objects.)
The only weapons you can find at first are a tree branch and a tiny dagger. There are no easy enemies to fight for a Level 1 character. Even the little gremlin looking guys in the first cave by that pond at the beginning totally beat the crap out of you with ease. The controls make combat an unfun chore.

I'm a patient and forgiving gamer but Gothic 2 barely has half the quality of Elder Scrolls 4 : Oblivion. If you've never played Oblivion and don't have an XBox 360 or a PC that can run it,.. then maybe you'll get into Gothic 2. It has much lower system requirements.

Night of the Raven has lots of bugs

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I played Gothic II when it first came out and it was and still is my favorite game, and I have played many, many games. It is true that it is very slow in the beginning, until you have reached a high enough level to kill anything in order to complete quests, and although there is a quest log, you should still write down where to find the quest giver, and you find yourself wandering around a lot wondering what to do (download a walkthrough), but despite this it is the most immersive RPG I have played, and afterwards I felt that I had actually been in that world, which has not happened in any other game. You can get more information on the main game from other reviews. I am writing this to warn gamers about the expansion, Night of the Raven. I encountered at least 3 game stopping bugs, and could not finish the game. I know what should happen, since I have played the original game twice. The expansion was a waste of money. I didn't know how many stars to give this since I would rate the original game a 5 stars and the expansion as zero.

Gothic 2 Gold

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Game feel old and boring... Poor graphics and sound. Just to out dated and not worth the money.

Note on install/start

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 38 / 41
Date: January 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have not played this game through yet, but I'd like to warn buyers that the installation instructions neglect to specify that ALL four CDs have to be installed for Gothic II Gold to run at all. The WISE installation runs you through installing 3 of the disks, but does not prompt for the installation of CD 4, which is the "Night of the Raven" add-on: the game will not start without the add-on installed which has to be run seperately. (You get a message something like "Insert original CD?" when you try to launch without CD 4 installed.) The box manual mentions nothing about this nor does the the JoWooD website tech support section (which advises you to unload services and update your device drivers): it's only noted by a user in one of the English user forums for Gothic 2. Once you do install CD 4, you will have another Gothic II icon on your desktop and the original icon will be dead. The second (blue) icon will finally launch the game. Other users on the JoWooD forum note that the game with the NOTR add-on is significantly different than the original Gothic II.

Update: after a few days with this, I have to reluctantly report that this is possibly one of the most frustrating games I have ever run on my system. The game makes heavy use of a virtual memory "database" and no matter how I adjusted the pagefile size, it inevitably crashed W2K after an hour or so (and I have RAM to burn). There is a patch available that fixes the problem on some XP systems, but it had no effect on mine. If you have a dedicated game pc, you may be used to dealing with these kind of issues, but I've played heavy-duty, multi-use-pc-friendly RPGs (ElderScrolls, Baldur's Gate)for too many years to have any patience for reconfiguring an OS (and, if you believe JoWood, your BIOS, services, video, audio and CD FlashBIOS and drivers)for a single app.

excellent RPG

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 13 / 17
Date: December 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is just a well-designed non-linear RPG with lots to explore, interesting and varied quests, plenty of items to play with and not overly easy. Only the voice acting prevents me from giving it 5 stars.

Great fun (and probably over 100 hours for most players)!

one caveat if you buy it...there's some important info in the readme file.

Discovering Interface is Half the Fun!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: February 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I haven't played all the way through the game yet, but am having a pretty good time so far. Gothic 2 plays like all RPG's should play in my opinion. Lots of quests, lots of loot and a non-linear game design.

My only gripe is this. As someone who never played the Gothic series before, I felt a little out of the loop in regards to the storyline. Discovery is half the fun in these games though, so that's a minor gripe. My major gripe is the lack of documentation that came with my copy of the game. All that came with it was a Quick Start Manual that is all of 16 pages long... and only 8 of those pages contain info helpful to playing the game. Only the most rudamentary interface commands are given. The rest you will have to figure out yourself (fan-sites were helpful to me). Also, the interface itself takes alot of getting used to as it's not very intuitive.

For the money, Gothic 2 is a huge bargain. Many hours of RPG goodness with just a dash of interface frustration. If you're into RPG's, this is a must buy.

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