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alright, with flaws

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 13
Date: April 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I must agree with other reviews that it is a beautiful game, meaning graphics, character creation etc..
but...I hate the music system. It keeps on repeating and repeating. Doesn't it get boring? The quest are buggy, why you could try run off to a castle to try and kill a bad guy, and never find the bad guy in the castle!
Further more, too monsters. While I was on the way to Port Vallum(or something like that), I was attacked by uncountable monsters. Not in large mobs, just maybe 4-7. But the thing is, with a horse to ride on, you just get tired of getting off the horse to fight them all. Alright it is ok to fight on horse, but not when the game ignores your clicking half of the time, letting you character get wacked. And they are not situated together(the mobs). Imagine riding for only a few seconds after finshing a mob to meet yet another identical mob comming over to wack you again....
Game play is repetitve(perhaps because I was playing the Seraphim character). I just couldn't stand the boring game play by the time I first got to Port Vallum, I just uninstalled it.
It's just not Diablo 2.
It's even worse than Arcanum.
I guess it might appeal to those who want endless smashing of globin heads, but not to me as I really want a good storyline with interesting gameplay. The storyline was quite predictable and boring too.
The game gets choppy when you enter towns. Although the demo itself was worth stars, the game is only 2 stars. Forget it RPG lovers, you will get bored before finishing the 2nd main quest.
This is for mindless smashing of monster lovers.

i quite adore this game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this is a great game for any diablo or diablo 2 fan. the graphics are superior and the quests are less routine than those of diablo 1 or 2. plus, you can have a horse which makes traveling quite a bit faster. also, the game was less jumpy for me than when i tried to play diablo, which caused my computer to freeze. as i said, the graphics in this game are much sharper than any other game i have played on my pc. the features keep my interest longer than diablo, which gets boring very quickly.

a good game to spend a lot of time in

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Sacred is very similar to Diablo but set in a more interesting universe. Showing your character running around the screen and interacting with the environment, you can see the bad guys running up and taking damage. 3 zoom levels are available but I never used anything but the most zoomed-out, otherwise your running around blind.

The game starts off with several different character types, each one is fairly generic (Dark Elf, Vampire, Gladiator, etc.) but what makes them interesting is that each is given a unique fighting style. I selected a character that has spells as well as fighting abilities.. it made it fun as the left mouse whacked the monsters with my sword and the right mouse button cast a spell at them. I found that I used the wind spell and the ring-of-fire spell. The ring-of-fire is cool because you can stand unharmed in a ring and the monsters have to walk into the fire to get you..the fire usually does twice as much damage as I do!

The world is HUGE! its amazingly detailed - the artists deserve massive kudos for what they put into the game, there is a simply amazing amount of detail, from the mushrooms growing bewtween cracks to half overgrown altars in the woods to the very trees themselves..just astonishing. And the dungeons look fantastic as well.

The main quest is intertesting, although its a standard "kill the big monster" plot line, there was enough detail, especially as you discover what is going on, to make it fun. The side quests are a welcome system ,you can do them or not - its your choice. They are almost all the typical "kill the monster over there" or "rescue my sister/wife/maiden/etc" or "escort me to x".. but you can accept or not as you choose.

What Sacred gets right:
The spells are interesting and their effects are great. The spell concept of auto-recharge is a welcome change from the tired "mana-battery" style of play where you have to keep drinking "mana potions". In Sacred all spells have a "recharge" interval and after so many seconds you can cast the spell again.. simple as that. The more complex or potent the spell the longer it takes to recharge. It works great and makes battles fun as you select repeatable spells.

The world and quest are fun and interesting.

The objects/weapons/armor you find are interesting, especially the ability to insert things into objects - makes it fun to try new things

What Sacred didn't do so right:
The "combo" system.. its supposed to be some kind of thing where you can combine different attacks to do something but it never worked right for me. The combos were so weak and the recharge period so slow that the spells worked 10 times better.

The horses.. supposedly riding the horse is one of the big things in the game, I never found them to be anything but a pain. They die all the time, you can't do much of anything while on horseback, they are only marginally faster than running and when doing rapid clicking in the midst of a battle you tend to automatically dismount and run around off the horse anyway.. after the first few died, I just ignored them after that.

The objects.. supposedly like Diablo there are tons of cool objects with different powers, but I found "Dagowits" objects fairly early in the game and never found anything better. The stores don't sell anything, even healing potions. I quickly had hundreds of thousands of $$ without anything to spend it on.

The spell levels.. I think its goofy to have a level 43 character and still be using level 3 spells. You only get the spell levels randomly and they arrive far too slowly. By the end of the game the spell I used the most was still only at level 3! Its massively frustrating to clean out an entire dungeon and get to the chest at the end of it, open the chest and have 642 pieces of gold pop out when you already have 300,000

The ending.. I won't give it away but I really expected a lot more.. bigger I guess, there is a big boss monster, but I think I had a glitch because it appeared right on top of me and I never took a hit from it. I just expected things to get bigger and tougher, with rooms filled with new monsters or something.. you start chapter IV and then there is only one room and the game is over.. wierd.

Overall however, I liked the game. It was fun to play, the world is a kick to run around in and explore. I spent a lot of time going to places I didn't need to go to, like paths through the woods just to see what was there.. its amazing how much detail is around. I did most of the quests, just to talk to people and see what was around. A good game to while away some hours!

Awesome game, but only for the Challenge Obssesed

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I sat for days waiting for this game to finally come out and when I FINALLY got it I was overjoyed. Great graphics, interesting voices in the background (Cursing and sexual innuendo abound!), everything about this game is amazing and great! You have a whole world to explore and villians to vanquish. Very open-ended and many different sidequests. It's nice, believe me.

The problem is the battle system. Like Diablo, yes. But you have so many powers and abilities to use, but no way to really get from one to the next, and run and fight? Don't even think about it! Parish the thought! It's wierd because the game is good, but you aiming is atrocious and you have to aim for everything...just...GAH! The battle system leaves much to be desired, but if you know a way around this then enjoy an otherwise awesome game.

Nothing Sacred

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I tried hard to like this, I really did. The demo was fun, but the game itself has a few faults that make it really hard to like. It's buggy and unbalanced, playing more like a Beta than a finished product. Two examples: In towns it's possible to get random quests, that for some reason give no reward on completion. Also the respawn rate for enemies is way too high, as you can head off on a quest, fight your way through various mobs to do so, only to find they've all respawned in the minute or so you were out of the area. Hell, they'll even respawn while you're buying stuff or getting your non-existent reward! Add that to the complete lack of variation in enemies and you have a fine recipe for a tedious slog as opposed to exciting gameplay. Much is made of the promise of future patches, but until they arrive (the next one's due in June) this game is more frustration than you deserve. Having said that, there is promise here, but I would advise waiting until this one gets balanced and out on budget.

Wow i like it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: April 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Its very good and satisfying rpg because it plays a lot like diablo2 but its better because of graphics and slightly diferent in gameplay but basicly go around and hack everyone down which is fun. Combos and skills look awesome when you use them gracefuly kill your enemys. Magic is pretty to everything is visble like the kind of armor you are wearing you can tell it looks just like the picture of the armor itself. PLenty of cool special unique itmes and ENOURMOS WORLD ride a horse if you want! But i still dont realy consider this game D3, it is more like ARCANUM if you have heard of, nice rpg to. Its like a hybrid of Arcanum and diablo, mostly diablo though.
Enjoy a great rpg with good variety of things to do i doubt youwill get bored in the next few month.

Good try but wait til they get more bugs out

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: June 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you liked Diablo or Dungeon Siege, you ought to like this game BUT... On my Windows 2000 system even with the latest patch and updated drivers (and on all other versions of Windows according to other reviewers) it bombs out the system after 5-20 minutes of play -- first slowing down to a crawl and often ending with a Blue Screen of Death.

There are a few uncompleteable side quests, repetitive go-fetch main quests, and a final act and endgame that are over in three minutes with no challenge. Generally good playability -- mostly hack and slash so the different character type abilities make little difference. And that leads to limited replayability interest.

Riding horses is potentially a good idea but fighting on horseback is limited and you can't outrun swarming enemies even when riding.

But it's better than nothing while waiting (perhaps forever) for a new Diablo follow on.

I just have to say my piece

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: June 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Tried this game on my two machines: Duron-1200, 256MB, GF3-64MB, Win98SE -and- a laptop P4-2667, 512MB, ATI9000-64MB, Win98SE.

I managed to play at most about 5 minutes then it took down both my PCs. Game didn't work on both campaign and multiplayer modes.
After many attempts, reboots, even reinstalls, I gave up, and already uninstalled the game.

Although, I'm thinking of trying it on my third PC: P3-550, 256MB, GF3-64MB, Win98SE... nah...

A really classy RPG!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm relatively new to gaming, but this gaming experience is definitely superior to Baldur's Gate and Diablo 2. The beautiful graphics and ability to zoom in and out are amazing. Character appearance actually reflects the different styles of armor/weapons with which they're equipped. Great sounds and music.

I powered through the game with a Wood Elf and have started with a Vampiress (lots of replay value to this game). Character leveling is smooth and predictable. Once you learn how to "run" your character, battles are pretty straightforward. Controls are easy to learn.

Maybe not "true" to hard core RPG rules, but I really enjoyed the quick save option, large capacity backpack and storage chest, and no penalties for resurrection when you "die." I also liked the compass system which helps you locate your objectives and eliminates any need for walkthroughs. Much variety and many quest options.

Game is very demanding of computer hardware, so I had occassional problems with freezing and rebooting that were resolved when I updated my Radeon drivers.

Highly addictive and fun to play!

Tried the demo

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Demos don't always show the full product but if this storyline continues on in the manner that it is, a player will spend many hours exploring this new world.

It is very similar in feel to Diablo II but with some excellent additions including the ability to combine spells and weapon styles into one easy button that you can push.

Distance always proves to be an issue in many RPG's. This game provides an easy to get there horse system and if you forget where you parked your animal, just whistle by using the easy to hit horseshoe on you character's picture. This game even has horse upgrades.

Six character classes include some of the old favorites like a gladiator "tank" and some new ones, like seraphim (angel) and vampiress.

This game is even boasting a similar online setup as Blizzard did with Diablo II. So if you played Diablo II like I did all day and night, your wait for a successor is almost over. Twenty - four hours and counting!

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