It's fun from the first moment on. Venetica offers a great introduction, a fascinating story, great quests and a very charming heroine. If you don't have the time for complex role playing games, but want something more than just an adventure game, then Venetica is for you.
Venetica is a good Fable clone: the story is interesting, the gameplay easy to play. The only weak point is the bad graphic: the game isn't very enjoyable even on the newest computer.
A great game, with an comprehensive story and easy-to-understand mechanics. The game begins fairly simply and the difficulty escalates properly so that new RPG players can understand how it works, and seasoned players can enjoy a simple game. Unlike most new RPG's, this game does not make you upgrade thousand of stats. It's fairly simple, Health, Strength (Melee), Mana, Strength (Magic). There is however an abundance of physical and magical skills you can buy or upgrade to, and also a multitude of weapons of 4 different styles (Swords, Spears, Hammers and Axes and Moonblades). The storyline is pretty straightforward, the bosses are as hard as they should be and there are many sidequests to keep one busy.
All in all, I'd certainly recommend it to an RPG newcomer, or to a WoW dropout.
Probably my favourite game that I've played in a long time. From a slightly removed point of view It's a very flawed RPG in the same vein as Risen or the Gothic series is, but I really did love this game. The aesthetic in both the design of the city of Venice and the design of characters has a ton of uniqueness and personality to it, and something about the game kept me playing constantly until I finally finished the it. The combat is definitely not great, and the story, while not terrible, and often interesting, is relatively weak compared to other RPGs. Regardless, the quests felt varied and the gameplay felt unique in key moments. Despite my high score for it, I wouldn't recommend it except for hardcore RPG fans who want an incredibly unique experience and are okay dealing with the many flaws this game has.
While Venetica is completely playable, I never would have beaten it without a review assignment. Gamers deserve a little more incentive than the bare pleasure of leveling up and hoarding loot to no real end. Even if that's your only ambition, there are much more attractive and fun venues for it. The developers seem to have infused Venetica with at least a portion of their hearts, and I hate to see passion so wasted. Then again, I could be wrong, and Venetica is the dreary result of pure industry.
If you don't expect much from it, you'll have a pretty good time with Venetica. However, without the patience to figure out quests and gameplay elements on your own, you'll end up incredibly frustrated.
If you can ignore the many faults, Venetica can offer a pretty good experience. The story and the collecting of objects and new abilities ensure that you want to keep playing. But even without the little problems that plague the game, Venetica would have never been able to be something truly special.
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Immediately I'd say, that in this clone Gothic and Risen me was play on many "feels better" and more interesting. Playing for the female character, fitting a couple of dresses, and then swim in them on the Venice canal or at worst in the sewer. The choice of weapons is not great, but diverse and each given its own branch in pumping. Overall the game **** and I was interested to play in some moments to wonder how cool I try and do this to that fact, and although the game was released in 2010. I think that there were a lot of problems in that, while even now the game sometimes subsides and gives not a clear fps even with reduced graphics. Summing up I will say that the game is good and may well tighten even now, I personally spent 20 hours on it, almost completed all the quests and visited all the corners. Oh yeah, just for the cons is to say, completely broken feature of the decree the purpose of the quest, even the Raven which should show often inactive. You have to either remember or to jog or to re-read several times the task, the illusion of choice, which Guild we would not have entered into the main quests and the cutscenes involved a lady from one of the Guild that the player can not choose, vs quests similar to those at the end will be happy end for all characters, actually not affect anything, it's a minus either not thought through or didn't have time to think. Well, probably the main disadvantage, the slow pace and the ending, or rather locations that should be up to her, not interesting, a large number of enemies and in General it is not clear what it was.
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Сразу скажу, что в данный клон Gothic и Risen мне было играть на много приятней и интересней. Игра за женского персонажа, примерка пару платьишек, а потом поплавать в них по каналу Венеции или на худой конец в канализации. Выбор оружие не велик, зато разнообразен и каждому уделена своя ветка в прокачке. В целом игра затянула и мне было интересно играть, в некоторых моментах удивляться как круто постарались и сделали вот это и вот - то, хотя игра и вышла в 2010. Думаю, что много было проблем в то, время так как даже сейчас игра бывает проседает и выдает не четкий fps даже с убавленной графикой. Подытоживая скажу, что игра хороша и вполне может затянуть даже сейчас, лично я потратил на нее 20 часов, практически завершил все квесты и побывал во всех закоулках. Ах да, как раз о минусах стоит сказать, полностью сломанная функция указа цели квеста, даже ворон который должен показывать зачастую неактивен. Приходится либо вспоминать, либо бегать или перечитывать по несколько раз задачи, иллюзия выбора, в какую гильдию мы бы не вступили, в главных заданиях и заставках, участвует дама из одной гильдии, которую игрок может и не выбрать, вс квесты похожие на те, что в конце будет happy end для некоторых персонажей, на самом деле не на что не влияет, это минус либо не продумали либо не было времени думать. Ну и главных наверное минус, затянутость и концовка, а точнее локации которые следует до нее, не интересны, большое количество врагов да и в целом не понятно для чего было.
Straight story, simple character development, you are the interesting character Scarlet, the only one capable to defeat Death itself because she is the daughter of Death, you will need to investigate, develop powers, craft gear, and fight against the Death itself in a beautiful fantasy Venetian environment crowded by interesting cartoonish characters. I prefer more realistic games where you can make your own character but is a fun story, not a masterpiece, a game and a story to enjoy.
Venetica looks like a cross between Gothic and Fable. The only serious difference is that our main character is a young woman. It's not a very successful game compared to the series of games it was inspired by. It's normal that you probably haven't heard anything about the game. Now, 15 years after its release, there are aspects that are starting to look quite dated. There are many points where the animations and graphics suffer. The best looking character model in the game is, as you'd expect, the character we're playing as, but every other NPC has a very strange and mediocre design. I understand that the game is trying to look a fairy-tale-like, and this gave Venetica a bit of cuteness, which increased my tolerance for its poor graphics. But the animations have very stiff transitions and are blocked by invisible walls. The fact that our character can't jump is also a big drawback. The combat mechanics also seem quite troublesome. All the enemies we encounter do nothing but spam blocks, but when you block them in the same way, it's not as effective. I don't like the block system in the game at all and it seems almost useless. After blocking, it takes a lot of time before you can counterattack and you end up getting hit. At least in the early stages of the game. Also, your attacks are constantly interrupted by enemies. Even if you level fast, you can't easily improve your character. You have to go to a trainer first, but even then, most skills seem to be closed. I played for about 3 hours and reached level 8, but as far as I can see, there are only one or two skills that I can choose from the skill tree and they are not very useful in combat. Other than that, the story so far has been okay and can keep you curious about the rest, but I don't know how far it can go. The game has over 20 hours of gameplay as far as I can see, but it seemed too long for such a limited and small game. The main story missions are interesting to a point, but the remaining side missions seem to be just fetch and simple puzzles. You can choose not to do them, but then you'll have a hard time leveling up your character and finding the resources to get new equipment. The most important thing that redeems the negative aspects of the game is that at least it has an easy gameplay, so if you have some free time, give it a shot.
After having played the game for about 10 h it feels very repetitive. Combatsystem is rather crude, every few steps you have to endure loading times. The plot is foreseeable and there are neither variations nor surprises in it. I refrain from completing the game.
SummarySet in the fantastic world of long ago Venice, the young Scarlett falls victim to a terrible mystery, which begins with the murder of her companion by a secretive alliance of mighty necromancers. Thus fate takes its inevitable course and threatens to throw the world out of order. Scarlett finds out that she is the daughter of death incar...