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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.

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.

Not So Sacred

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: June 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Wouldn't play on three systems. Tried it with Patch and without. Tried all variations and combinations of settings. Uninstalled game. Too bad. Looked like it would be interesting.

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...

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!

Don't Buy It

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: June 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

A good idea, but the game has WAY TOO MANY PROBLEMS. I could not get it to run on my top of the line machine and tech support was of no help. Check out the Sacred web forums for the thousands of persons who bought the game, but cannot play it.

I really disapointment for my whole family. It is really unfair that they get away with selling something that does not work for soo many purchasers, and then we are stuck with it.

There are less bugs in a Louisianna Swamp!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: August 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have NEVER had so many problems with a game as I have with this one. Mind you, not every game that comes out is perfect, but at least they could have made the darn thing able to START without having to hack the file and UNCLICK all of the "supposedly" great features!! I'm glad that I bought it used for a cheap price!

Barely works, and support is lacking

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: October 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I got this game a few months ago and I have only been able to keep it running for a few hours of gameplay. And the company's technical support doesn't know anything at all about their product. I let them know what is wrong, give them crash logs, everything...and they still can't figure it out. It got to the point where I gave the game to my friend and I just play it at his house all the time now. Don't get unless you know EXACTLY that it is going to work.

Boring unimaginative game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 19
Date: March 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is nothing but standard RPG hack and slash. Nothing new here, yeah big deal I get to ride a horse! The creators of this game try to make up for their tedious title by spanwing you to death. That must be what they think imagination is. Its been done so many times it let me count the ways. And I am really getting tired of this isometric view, why can't the user have the ability to rotate his view. If you want the same old stuff this is your game, if you want something that shows someone put a little effort into, skip this title.

what ain't no country I heard of

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 15
Date: May 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I do not know what or where this game is from or made for but it seems windows was not it's 1st intended place to be played as I could not get it to work and shelved it after hour of trying.

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