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List Price: $19.99
Our Price: $1.75
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Manufacturer: Atari
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Amazon Maximum Age: 20
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Atari
EAN: 0742725250093
ESRB Age Rating: Mature
Feature: Enter a medieval world where magic, alchemy, monsters and intrigue all coexist. You'll go seeking treasure while you navigate hidden threats, tenuous alliances and powerful enemies.
Format: CD-ROM
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Atari
Manufacturer: Atari
Model: 1575956624
Platform: Windows 98
Publisher: Atari
Release Date: 2003-10-28
Studio: Atari
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Enter a medieval world where magic, alchemy, monsters and intrigue all coexist. You'll go seeking treasure while you navigate hidden threats, tenuous alliances and powerful enemies.
Gain in experience and power as you face monsters in combat with medieval weapons
Collect the circles of power to give your character supernatural abilities
Interact with over 400 different NPCs as you seek clues and help to earn the treasure of a lifetime!
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Summary: When so many things are done right
Comment: Once I was coming back down the beaten country path to Khorinis (the city) early morning after a night's worth escapades outside its walls. The rising sun started to be barely visible through the mist and familiar `Khorinis theme' started playing... I felt like I was coming back home after some long voyage. I stopped playing and just marveled at the moment.
The story could use more emotional `oomph', yes, but Gothic 2 got so many things right anyway, both in big aspects and little details.
The world design: labyrinthine multileveled paths throughout the wilderness gave the world more than just 3 dimensions. It has day-night cycle and dynamic weather.
Movement engine that not only allows free roaming, jumping, or swimming but climbing as well and considering the landscape has lots of vertical diversity it is very helpful.
Gothic2's NPC scheduling was the part Oblivion tried to unsuccessfully emulate. Here it looks so simple and effortless and every little part of it makes sense.
This game has Choices and consequences. There are 3 paths of developing your character's profession. Each of them excludes the other, but not completely. Many characters have different attitudes (to the point that quests or goals have to be tackled differently) depending on player's guild affiliation. Quests are fun, require actual thinking and there is no hand-holding.
The world is scary but the world at night is scarier. Finding yourself in the woods after sunset without a torch can be paralyzing. The main reason is that baddies are not decreased to your level and you can easily stumble upon an Orc or a pack of Wargs or a skeleton in the beginning of the game. However the chances are you'll see or hear them first before they notice you... basically you'll be running away as much often as deciding to put up a fight. Fights can be won easily if you get experience with controls and baddies' behavior. Controls themselves are very responsive, and the better your in-game combat skills the more responsive they are.
There is a fast travel system, BTW. There are genuine dragons to fight against, not some poor imitations. The game-world has two parts: main island and the Valley of mines. Everything (plants, chests, treasure, monsters, NPCs) is hand-placed.
Last word: This game is the very definition of immersion.
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Summary: Hidden gem, considerable depth, unique aspects, adult themes
Comment: One of the best RPGs that virtually nobody played. One of those games that you will not get until you put a considerable amount of time in to it, sort of like a science fiction book that takes a 100 pages before you get it and then you don't want it to end, that is what Gothic II is like. To think you can get this game for the price of a fast food meal. It is an amazing value! Graphically the game is a little dated but in no time you won't even notice the outdated graphics. Highly recommended!
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Summary: One of the best RPG ever - at a great price
Comment: I will echo what others have said that Gothic 2 (and Gothic 1) is really unlike anything else out there - for better or for worse. Take a bit of time to read all the reviews for Gothic 1, Gothic 2, and also Gothic 2 Gold and it is literally smack-in-your-face obvious that those who can get over the beyond-description frustration of the bugs, the akward control, and the extreme realism (in this case, the absolute wimpiness of your character in the beginning - a fly, albeit a good-sized one, will kill him) and actually finish the game, will have their whole perspective on gaming changed forever. On the other hand, those that cannot will despise this game more than their mother-in-law (anyone notice that you can get woman-Hitler by rearranging the letters?)
At any rate, it is absolutely true that the gamer must goes through his/her own trials before this game can be enjoyed. Yes, combat is hideous in the beginning, but get use to it and you will have Conan peeing in his leather breeches. Once you use to the control (and level up accordingly), the fighting movement is almost comparable to those sleek fighting game that's only available to console gamers. The cool thing is that you can defeat much stronger enemy based on your wit and dexterity rather than by character level. For instance, one of the ways to kill a giant troll in the game is by circle-strafing it rather that hacking it head on, because no matter what level you are at, this troll will just tear up your behind if you take it head on. By the way, enemies, especially those smaller than you, will also circle-strafe you, as they have impeccable AI. This is why the Gothic nuts love the challenge so much.
Beside the good story (Gothic 1 has a better story though), one of the best thing about Gothic, to echo another reviewer, is that it's so immersive it literally gets under your skin. It won't be long before you automatically save game before combat without thinking - because the anxiety is almost too real. It won't be long before you learn to dread the dark and fear the night - and the night is long in the Gothic world (a day is a little over an hour long - that means about 30 minutes of darkness - and if you are out in the wood - you tread very carefully, if at all). Those who did not play or finish Gothic will think I'm off my rocker. Those that did will probably lol and remember their own fear of dying mixing in with the adrenaline rush before combat. For me, once I got over the frustration, it's simply too awsome to stop playing. (Pro: I worked hard at work so I can go home and play Gothic again. Con: I don't do anything at home beside paying Gothic ...again. By the way, Gothic 3 is a very decent game (and very pretty graphically), but it tried too hard to please everybody; therefore, as the Righteous Brothers (if you remember who that is) would said, it "lost that loving feeling" that Gothic fanatics ecperienced in Gothic 1 and 2.
Another quirk with Gothic (both 1 and 2) is that it may not play on Windows XP if you have anti-virus running, as I have experienced. And also remember to clean up any spyware. Other than that, Gothic is more than a game, it's an experience to be felt, for those who knows that patient really meant: if first you don't succeed, reload, reload, reload... and keep on reloading the damn thing till you do. And just like my Drill Instructor used too say, "If it didn't hurt, you didn't do it right."
PS. in case you want to know, best RPGs ever (that I played): Gothic 1 and 2, Baldur's Gate series, Morrowind (not Oblivion, which is like Gothic 3 - it tried to please everybody, and Deus-Ex 1. Honorable mention: Daggerfall, Neverwinter Nights and its Hordes of the Underdark expansion, Vampires Masquerade - Bloodlines, and also Star Wars Knight of the Republic series.
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Summary: This game Deserves 5 Stars NOT 1!!
Comment: The reason why this game deserves 5 stars is for one its not like any other RPG, you'll enjoy up to 40 hours of gameplay and you'll never stop finding things to do in the game.
You are in a huge open world where you can go where ever you can reach, theres no invisable walls or nothing like in alot of rpgs
Every NPC Player has their own personality and can be talked to, every thing that can be talked to has a voice
The controls are GREAT they arent messed like that idiot said on the first page, The game is meant to either use the Keyboard for all controls or combination of keyboard and mouse so you can get a complete view of the world from any angle.
The gametime goes through like real days, Start when you wake up in the morning every NPC will be just waking up, they'll act sleepy and walk to where ever they go in the morning (Work, a bar, fixing house) All NPC Players eat and drink and live. No NPC just stands around and does nothing, they are doing things throughout the entire day, some will be exploring the land, or hunting, other will be farming, some will be patrolling the cities. At night they go to bed, if you wake them they'll act sleepy. All NPC Players talk to eachother in the game, you will overhear them in the game, if you get in a fight with an NPC all other NPCs around will yell "A FIGHT!" and run over to watch you fight. If you steal from an NPC theyll call you a thief and attack you.
This is why the game is so good, its perfectly life-like its not like one of those really crappy rpgs people say are good where all NPCs stand in a single spot doing absolutely Nothing.
The game does not crash over and over like the idiot from page 1 said, This game cannot be put down until its finished. The game sometimes crashes if its not updated, or your computer can only run graphics at low.
I would give this game a thousand stars if i could, you seriously have to buy it, you wont ever regret it, it will make you want to buy Gothic 1, even buy Gothic III when it comes out
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Summary: TRASH
Comment: This game sucks Big Time!
I have played tons of RPG's, and I never put down a game unless it absolutely deserves it and this one certainly does.
As many stated already, the controls are horrible. You have to like push the up arrow key and then click the left mouse botton while trying to keep yourself in line with the enemie(s) to even stike a blow, and God forbid you have more than one enemy after you at a time.
The graphics, sound and realism is nice but what good is that if you cannot fight your enemies effectively.
Honestly, I think any game is better than this garbage dump.
Save your cash and pass on this one.
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