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Please pay $40 to beta-test this terrible game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 21
Date: May 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've had this game for an hour, and it has crashed 5 times. The first three times took my PC down completely. The PC itself is a nice AMD 2500+ with a Radeon 9800 PRO, 1GB dual-channel RAM, and it runs today's high-end games like FarCry and UT2004 without a hitch. Obviously the fault lies in Encore Software's shoddy coding.

After I lowered the game's video settings to their lowest level, I was unfortunately able to play the game. The gameplay is straight out of 1997, with an inventory and fight system that is clunky and hard to use. The graphics were very poor even for compatibility mode, and the voice acting was dull.

Sacred is marketed as being 'like Diablo'. This is an incomplete statement. The game is 'like Diablo,' only if one removed all of the fun, enjoyment, and excitement from the game.

Actually, that's unfair. I suppose there is a certain amount of excitement in waiting to see if your computer will crash 'this time'.

The developer's website doesn't seem to have patches linked, but I was able to find the 1.66 patch via Google search. This patch fixed some multiplayer issues, but did nothing to improve the stability of the game.

I'm very tired of having to pay to beta-test poor software. I took this game back within 2 hours of buying it, and will steer clear of all other Encore products -- though if they last long enough to produce anything else I will be suprised.

Diablo 2 Successor

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game makes Diablo 2 look like Nintendo. The graphics are beautiful. I spent 50 hours exploring the world, doing side quests and working on the main quest and only uncovered 25% of the world. The game has a tool that tells you how long you've been playing and how much of the world you've discovered.

There's lots of humorous things to find, like "Jason's" hockey mask, the Harry Potter "soccer" field (what was that called?). Some of the gravestones you uncover have the developer's names or some great one liners written on them.

The monsters range from goblin's (which speak german in the UK version, sounds hilarious too) to huge fire breathing Dragons. Something to note, the US version released by Encore doesn't have "gore turned up. It's a pretty minor difference which you can readily test the difference in with the downloadable demo. But even so, I ordered the UK version.

I played through the bronze level (same as easy) without any bug problems. Most of the bugs I've seen reported are related to Multiplayer (online). In single player there were some quest related bugs, but you could easily get around them by quick-saving your game before taking on each new quest. If it's bugged, quick-reload and move on to something else.

Don't let the bugs deter you from what could be the unthrowning of Diablo. Many games have bugs at release, remember all those Diablo patches. Anyway, the developers have already put out 2 patches since release, which is quite impressive. And the bugs didn't really affect me anyway.

Beware... Good game... poorly made

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game has a lot of potential, but shouldn't have been released yet. Be especially cautious if your computer is near the "minimum specifications". My computer is at the low end, and I can't even play half the time. I freeze (requiring CTRL-ALT-DEL) 3 or 4 times before I can actually log on. When I finally get logged on, the game will kick me off the server with no warning at random (every 3rd or 4th game). There are countless bugs, mis-spellings, and problems. I foresee an endless series of patches for online play. If you can stand the hassle... go for it. But don't say I didn't warn you!

Wonderful game but its buggy problems are just too much

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game had the potential to over take the king of action rpgs, Diablo, but it fell flat on its face.

The graphics, characters (especially Seraphim and Vampiress), and game world are all terrific and a joy to play and behold... when the game doesnt lock you up or crash.

Sacred was obviously rushed out the door before it was ready and it really shows. There are so many bugs, crashes, and game breaking glitches that it borders on ridiculous.

If you buy this game make sure you download patch 1.6.
And the next patch, 1.7, is due out in TWO MONTHS. The developers stated that the next patch will be out in June. Now if that doesnt tell you that the game needs a lot of fixing then i dont know what will...

Lot like Diablo, with a D&D aspect

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I found this game for $10 and at first, was kind of disappointed at the lack of options in game. Well, many options are there, but you have to find most of them yourself. Ok, first off, this is a spawnable hack and slash, like many of the reviews mention, so if you don't mind killing the same groups as you circle back and forth through the same terrain, no problem. The variety of character types is nice, each character has a great set of skills, spells, and attributes to work with.
Comparing this to Diablo I/II, Sacred delivers in some aspects. The horse riding is fun, but seems to attract more enemies, and it's almost worth it to just walk from town to town. The idea of using up to 4 sets of weapons and up to 4 spells at the touch of a key is better. There's even the option to combine up to 4 spells/skills into 1 barrage of attacks, although this works better on quick attack skills, and not so well on longer spells, so if you get knocked around and distracted, it tends to kill the combination and you may have to wait a full minute for it to regenerate to use again, so it's a toss-up.
Along with main parts of your quest, there are a multitude of minor quests you can take part. Most are simple tasks, making you feel like a gofer (you know, go for this, go for that), but they are usually quick and simple and can cough up some nice rewards.
The Save feature is pretty good, although savegames tend to clog up your list and need to be deleted every so often, but it's nice to save anywhere you want, unlike Diablo II.
Like Diablo I/II, you can find rare (Yellow), set (green) and sometimes unique (gold) items. Many have sockets, which you can have a blacksmith in any town add attributes to an item, although I highly suggest killing some undead in the desert and collecting skulls, as they add some to alot of damage to anything they're inserted into.
One bad thing about the game is that sometimes people following you can get killed, making you fail a mission. One exception is a chap named Wilbur, who actually fights with you after awhile, and you can give him a better sword and shield if you like. If he dies, he takes a nap, with little birdies floating around his head, then miraculously comes back to life, ready to fight again.
Overall, this is a good RPG with realtime combat and a nice variety of gameplay, including decent replay value.

Love it !!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you like RPG games, this is the game for you. Reminds me of Fallout,
very nice game, love it... Will not work on Vista however, make sure you have XP or older. Low system requirements, cute story line, tons of enemies to kill, etc.,etc..

I love it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing RPG games since the days of Hack... okay so I am showing my age. I love Sacred and Sacred Underworld. I played this game for a long time (several months) before I won it. I often go back to this game and play it as a different character type.

I highly recommend this game!

Diablo+bugs

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 12
Date: May 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game has so many flaws its pathetic. Complete a quest, and it wont know it. Buy a horse and it vanishes. Take a portal, and all quests are erased. Crashes frequently as well. But, it is a copy of Diablo 2. And it ends the same as Diablo 2(without the expansion)if you know what I mean. Another reason not to buy it. Wait for the expansion and buy the complete game so you can beat it. by then maybe Encore will have enough patches for all the bugs. Oh, and you cant multiplayer via LAN unless you have a HUB or router. More money I didnt have to spend when playing diablo. Help BLIZZARD save me from these idiots.

Caution Laptop Users

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 23
Date: April 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First, I gave this game a single star for one reason. I couldn't play it. It might be a great game and bought it based on recommendations made here. However, when I got it home and loaded it on my laptop (866 PIII-M, 1 GB mem, 16 Mb Video), it actually hung my XP system - impressive! I set all display and sound options to the minumum, downloaded the patchs, got the latest DirectX runtime (9.0b) and still it would not load. If you look in the readme file the company mentions that the game may not run on all laptop tops due to their inability to test every integrated video chip configuration and I guess mine was one :(. So, if you're thinking of installing this game on a laptop please be aware that there may be problems. I'm not saying it won't run (I had the minimum recommended system requirements but not the recommended requirements) but be prepared to be frustrated and ensure you can return the game if it you have too.

Nothing but problems

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was excited to get my copy of Sacred and that's pretty much where the fun ended. I installed it, but kept getting disk verification errors when I tried to play. I read the "readme" file and found that the game may not work properly with Windows 98 or Me. So I went and bought Windows XP. I reinstalled Sacred, and I am still having the same trouble. I can now see the opening sequence, but then the game just turns itself off. I read in previous reviews that there were bugs, I just never imagined it would be this bad! I'll be returning my copy and buying Beyond Divinity instead!

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