1. WorthPlaying

   10

   If you're a Diablo clone fan, this is a must play. A bit different than the first, but with the same wide-open game world to fool around in. As of May 2009, almost all bugs have been eliminated, so if you were frustrated by earlier play, or were warned off by reviewers, give it another try.… Expand

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2. BrentD.

   5

   Well here's my thoughts I like the combat system and all that seems cool but seriously the person who decided on the camera angles is stupid. I mean REALLY the camera is so bad because me personally the camera angle makes me feel dizzy and sick and it RUINS the game. Yes I said it Ruins the game they need to make the camera like RF online or World of Warcraft style this is the biggest piece of crap I have bought the entire year all because of one Flaw that hinders your ability to enjoy the game and in this case its the Camera I will never buy another product from this company because I can expect only what I see and thats a Piece of crap in a box with pretty graphics. Good Game and Epic Fail.… Expand

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3. KevinG.

   4

   Anyone who rated this game above a six obviously hasn't played it. To summarize the numerous issues: The game crashes all the time, even after installing numerous patches and cranking all the detail levels down to the minimum. Attempting to run it at maximum detail on even a modern machine will typically result in a crash to desktop every 10-15 minutes. Framerates chug almost all the time and the game will randomly freeze up for seconds at a time while it does god-knows-what, typically during a fight with a group of monsters or while you're trying to navigate through a busy city. Load times are abysmally terrible and are made worse by the fact that loading occurs at a black screen with no feedback whatsoever, making it hard to tell whether the game has crashed or is just contemplating the nature of the universe. Terrible, hard-to-discover and buggy user interface. The UI lacks hotkeys for some essential commands, and the other commands that do have hotkeys don't display them anywhere except in the options menu... which you can't access without quitting to the main menu. Clicking a target to attack or a button to use a skill will often result in no response whatsoever, either because the game decided to ignore your click, because you're out of range, because you're out of line of sight, or any number of other bizarre reasons. The in-game camera is utterly terrible and almost completely without merit, and does everything within its power to prevent you from seeing the things you actually care about in-game. Your choices for camera position are 'right behind the player character's ass' and 'staring straight down at the main character', both of which allow you to see about 3 feet in any direction if your view isn't currently blocked by your character, your mount, or any of the 50 mindless NPCs following you around. The game's pathfinding and targeting are both abysmally bad, which makes it hard to effectively control your character. Clicking on an enemy to attack it will often cause your character to randomly run in the enemy's direction instead, and you will often click on a door or staircase and watch your character inexplicably run off into the middle of nowhere. The quest UI is one of the worst pieces of user interface ever created, and is in many cases actually misleading enough to be worse than if the game had no quest UI at all. Some quests fail to show up in the quest UI, the quests in the UI are listed in random order with random indentation and formatting to make it hard to find them, and they're grouped into random numbered categories. This is especially unfortunate since you're forced to use the quest UI to control which quest marker is displayed on the minimap. The game mechanics are, to put it lightly, broken. Many stats and special abilities are effectively useless unless you have particular specially-tailored equipment or are using other abilities, but none of the in-game UI or text informs you of this. Sometimes modifiers on an item just plain won't work, or will do something other than what they should do - for example, you can equip a sword with +N% poison damage on it, then equip another sword that has +N% magic damage on it, and discover in the character panel that both of your swords are now inexplicably dealing poison damage. Ranged weapons are close to useless due to their short range and the ridiculous speed at which enemies close range to melee you to death. The magic system feels awkward and unintuitive mostly due to the interaction of multiple badly-explained mechanics, and the aforementioned broken UI. It's very easy to waste attribute points or an entire skill slot on an ability that's completely useless to you and not realize your mistake until much later. Most of the loot you find is utterly worthless, and sometimes even rewards from quests and bosses will be useless, so you get to plunk that shiny epic ultra-rare unique elite item into the vendor for 50000 gold that you're never going to spend. Oh, yeah - the economy is busted too. You'll be drowning in gold within a few hours of play and there really aren't any interesting or worthwhile things to spend it on. Also, the horse is terrible. It's barely faster than walking, has a remarkable knack for finding a way to get stuck in walls and other inaccessible locations, and best of all, it's next to impossible to get onto the damn thing since it has to be surrounded by about 10 feet of empty space in all directions before your player character will even think about climbing on. Mounting or dismounting also has about a 5% chance to get your character stuck, requiring you to exit the game and reload your save. The quests are pretty much universally awful. Bad writing, nonsensical storylines, broken mechanics, utterly horrible follower NPCs with broken AI and tiny health bars that evaporate in a single hit, broken map markers that randomly jump around or point to empty space, and a general lack of anything resembling coherence, quality, polish, or human decency. A class of sixth-graders could do a better job than this game's writing and design teams did on the content, even if you imagine that most of the failings are a result of a botched translation. Quests, NPCs and monsters will randomly glitch out - randomly despawning, randomly dying, getting stuck in terrain, falling through the floor, respawning after they're supposed to be dead, instantly popping from 0% health to 100% health, randomly teleporting around, etc. Quest NPCs and objectives will mysteriously appear and disappear in random locations as quests progress, often right in front of you, without any rhyme or reason. Many of the quests are plodding, repetitive fetch quests that take as long as 30 minutes to complete for little to no reward, even if you utilize a mount and the teleportation system. The game's bosses are few and far between, and not particularly interesting to fight. The game world is huge and filled with stuff, which is actually rather impressive at times - there's a whole lot of places to explore. Unfortunately, almost none of the stuff in the world is interesting - but it's there, at least, and that counts for something. Opening the world map and zooming out is pretty impressive. The game's graphics are pretty good overall, though the character graphics are a particular weak point. While almost all of the textures and models are well done, the character art in particular feels very bland and uninspired, and the art for equipment and items feels like a mishmash of random designs with no coherence or particular style to it. Some of the terrain art is extremely well done, and a few of the large cities in the campaign are very impressive to look at. The UI art, on the other hand, is pretty sub-par and is worsened by the in-game text's tendency to show up in a blurry 8-pt font. The music is decent, though not particularly memorable, and a little repetitive. Well done, at least, but you're not likely to leave the music volume up for more than a few hours. The sound effects range from well done to utterly bizarre, with some attacks, spells and items making near-perfect noises and others making utterly bizarre sounds that would fit better in a Star Wars game from the late 90s. The voice acting is pretty much universally terrible, and is played so often as to become repetitive within a few hours of play. The writing for the spoken dialogue isn't good either, but that wouldn't matter if the voice actors were better and they replayed the voice clips less. At least there's a voice volume slider. The multiplayer UI is incoherent, sluggish, and unreliable, which unfortunately prevented me from testing out that part of the game. I suspect it's probably not much better than the rest of the game, but I've been wrong before. On the upside, despite all my complaints about the game... no, it's pretty much garbage. Definitely not worth fifty bucks. … Expand

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