When I first heard about this game I was really excited that it will be something similar to the Gothic series or even TES IV:Oblivion. Then I've heard that it will be made by a Polish company "Reality Pump" and I was kind of uncertain if it will be a good game.
Now I have it in my stock and I played it for about two days, here are my first impressions.
First off I had lots and lots of problems with starting it, apparently the game has hard time working with Radeon series, thankfully few patches finally fixed that problem.
Character creation is pretty limited, you can only play a dude and he has really an ugly face, you can alter it a little (even by making him look like a chineese) and other body parts, but he will still look ugly. But ok, moving on...
So after half an hour I was finally playing with full graphics settings. The game looked really good, I must say that the details of armors, weapons and the world look truly awesome. Unfortunately there are moments where framerate is very low, but the beautiful graphics are worth it. Really, I was moved by the beautiful world ;]
Gameplay at first is really confusing, there isn't really any good tutorial that will introduce you to the controls and abilities of your ugly hero. There are just "use lmb to attack" and "use space to open doors" messages. There's nothing else, everything else you need to find out by yourself...
When you complete the first simple "training" mission you can do whatever you want and go wherever you want, but the main story kicks from the very beginning. The climate of the game seems cool, you are a lonely traveling mercenary who lost his sister to some group of dudes in the hoods and now is trying to get her back...
And like in every game like this almost everyone has a job for you even if they see you for the first time in town... So far I haven't found any extraordinary missions, mostly it's just kill something or find something somewhere.
Combat system is really primitive, I didn't like it. It's just hack&slash type, torture the left mouse button 'till there's nothing moving on the screen. There isn't even a block move (or I haven't found it yet). There is magic, few schools of magic, from what I know there are about 70 spells cattegorized in those schools (like fire, water magic or necromancy).
I still haven't quite gotten use to them, 'cause I've got no idea how to learn necromancy, in the beginning you only know fire and water magic, which gives you a fireball spell and heal spell.
There are also traps that seem pretty cool. You put down a holding trap, attack a dude with a bow, he, like an idiot, runs into a giant trap in front of him, that is fully visible, and he is held for few seconds, which is enough to get him killed with a bow...
Oh, you can also kick dust in someone's eyes, or someone can do that to you ;p
The most funniest thing in the game (and the most horrible at the same time) is the voice acting... God... All the texts and voices seem so... plain wooden... The language in the game is really stupid, they talk like retards or politicians, it's really hard to explain it, but if you play the game you'll know what I'm talking about. What really brought me down on the floor laughing was the name of dude "Ho"...
Overally the game isn't that bad, it needs time to get accustomed with it. It has some flaws but also it has some advantages. It's worth playing. But the words I heard somewhere: "Two Worlds is an Oblivion Killer!" (I believe it was some magazin's review) are completelly not true. Two Worlds isn't as good as Oblivion, nor as Gothic series.
But still I'm really greatfull that my country was able to pull of such a good game of this genre finally ;]
So, have any of You played the game yet? What do you think of it?
Now I have it in my stock and I played it for about two days, here are my first impressions.
First off I had lots and lots of problems with starting it, apparently the game has hard time working with Radeon series, thankfully few patches finally fixed that problem.
Character creation is pretty limited, you can only play a dude and he has really an ugly face, you can alter it a little (even by making him look like a chineese) and other body parts, but he will still look ugly. But ok, moving on...
So after half an hour I was finally playing with full graphics settings. The game looked really good, I must say that the details of armors, weapons and the world look truly awesome. Unfortunately there are moments where framerate is very low, but the beautiful graphics are worth it. Really, I was moved by the beautiful world ;]
Gameplay at first is really confusing, there isn't really any good tutorial that will introduce you to the controls and abilities of your ugly hero. There are just "use lmb to attack" and "use space to open doors" messages. There's nothing else, everything else you need to find out by yourself...
When you complete the first simple "training" mission you can do whatever you want and go wherever you want, but the main story kicks from the very beginning. The climate of the game seems cool, you are a lonely traveling mercenary who lost his sister to some group of dudes in the hoods and now is trying to get her back...
And like in every game like this almost everyone has a job for you even if they see you for the first time in town... So far I haven't found any extraordinary missions, mostly it's just kill something or find something somewhere.
Combat system is really primitive, I didn't like it. It's just hack&slash type, torture the left mouse button 'till there's nothing moving on the screen. There isn't even a block move (or I haven't found it yet). There is magic, few schools of magic, from what I know there are about 70 spells cattegorized in those schools (like fire, water magic or necromancy).
I still haven't quite gotten use to them, 'cause I've got no idea how to learn necromancy, in the beginning you only know fire and water magic, which gives you a fireball spell and heal spell.
There are also traps that seem pretty cool. You put down a holding trap, attack a dude with a bow, he, like an idiot, runs into a giant trap in front of him, that is fully visible, and he is held for few seconds, which is enough to get him killed with a bow...
Oh, you can also kick dust in someone's eyes, or someone can do that to you ;p
The most funniest thing in the game (and the most horrible at the same time) is the voice acting... God... All the texts and voices seem so... plain wooden... The language in the game is really stupid, they talk like retards or politicians, it's really hard to explain it, but if you play the game you'll know what I'm talking about. What really brought me down on the floor laughing was the name of dude "Ho"...
Overally the game isn't that bad, it needs time to get accustomed with it. It has some flaws but also it has some advantages. It's worth playing. But the words I heard somewhere: "Two Worlds is an Oblivion Killer!" (I believe it was some magazin's review) are completelly not true. Two Worlds isn't as good as Oblivion, nor as Gothic series.
But still I'm really greatfull that my country was able to pull of such a good game of this genre finally ;]
So, have any of You played the game yet? What do you think of it?
, so plugging it into my Plasma TV to play was not possible.
