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Great graphics and sound, fun to play

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 31 / 36
Date: August 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Hey everyone, this game is an awesome game that any true fantasy RPG fan would love. If you're an Oblivion fanatic, then don't get this game because you'll never be satisfied with anything else. I am so sick of all the negative reviews because all these people have to say is that it isn't as good as Oblivion. Stop comparing it to Oblivion! Hey, here's an idea. Why not review this game based on its own merits and the fantasy RPG genre as a whole rather than telling us why it's not as good as Oblivion. Personally, I haven't played Oblivion. But I have been playing fantasy RPG games on computer now for about 15 years, so I know what I am talking about. So here is my review which I originally posted on Amazon.com on the 24th when the game first came out (with a few revisions). I also want to say that I bought this game because I am waiting for the Neverwinter Nights 2 expansion pack Mask of the Betrayer to come out, so I wanted something to keep me busy in the meantime (and I don't want to pay $15 a month to play World of Warcraft). I am also happy that this game looks good and runs well on my computer.

This is one of the best role-laying games that I have played in a long time. And the graphics and sound are great too! If you like fantasy RPG games such as Neverwinter Nights, Baldur's Gate, and Icewind Dale, then you're going to love this game. You can get the demo from the Two Worlds web site at www.2-Worlds.com. You should get the demo first to see if it will run on your computer and to make sure you like it. This game is made for dual-core processors with a modern graphics card, so if you have an old computer then you probably shouldn't get this game until you upgrade your system (or you can get it for Xbox 360 if you have one).

What I like most about this game is that it is an open-class system for developing your character. What this means is that unlike most RPGs, your character is not restricted to just one class. When you create your character, you don't choose a class. Your character is free to develop any skills from any class as you advance levels. So you can wield magic, be a powerful fighter, and be a skilled thief all at the same time. And there are no class restrictions. In Dungeons and Dragons games, you often have restrictions based on your chosen class. Such as wizards can't have full plate armor. And fighters can't cast magic. The only restrictions I have found are practical things like you can't swim or use a bow in heavy armor. You can also fight with two weapons once you learn that skill.

Two Worlds is a huge game, so traveling on foot is not the best way to get around. Therefore, you can travel in faster ways. You can either use the teleport system. Or you can ride on horses or other animals. The box says that you can have six different mounts in this game. You can also fight from your horse which does more damage. And as far as I understand, you can't fight from horseback in Oblivion. But in this game you can (except with 2-handed weapons).

There is a main storyline that you have to follow, but you can follow it at your own pace (and there may be different outcomes based on your choices). If you want, you can just explore the world talking to people, fighting monsters, leveling up your character, buying and selling equipment, and completing various optional side quests for different NPCs. And there is no good or evil in this game, so you can make your own choices however you want. But your choices will have consequences in the game world. For example, if you break into someone's house, the guards in town will be alerted and will attack you. Or if you steal someone's things in their home, they will attack you. This is very different from most RPG games as you usually have to choose an alignment such as good, evil, or neutral, and then you have to make choices based on your chosen alignment. In D&D games, you are even more restricted because your chosen class may force you into a certain alignment (paladins have to be lawful good, assassins have to be evil, druids have to be neutral, monks have to be lawful, etc.) So this is a very welcome change from what I am used to. Also, there are different organizations and guilds in the game that you can gain influence in as you complete tasks for them which can prove useful. For example, if you have gained influence in the Merchant's Guild, you will get a discount at their stores. And at one point in the game, you have to gain influence in a certain clan to be able to speak with their leader.

The graphics in this game totally blew me away! Much better than Neverwinter Nights 2. When I bought Neverwinter Nights 2 for my PC, I had to also buy a graphics card to play it. Then after installing the graphics card, I was expecting something amazing. But I was totally let down. The game barely ran on my HP a1600n with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core 2 GHz processor, 1 GB of RAM, and NVidia 7600 GS with 512 MB of RAM. The skies in that game totally suck. And I had to turn down many of the settings like the shadow quality to have an acceptable frame rate. But Two Worlds was a totally different experience. In Two Worlds, I had beautiful skies and landscapes, trees that blow in the wind, rain and lightning, glistening armor, moving shadows, night and day cycles, and rippling water with reflections.

The sound quality of this game was top notch too. The best part was the music which was done by Harold Faltermeyer who composed music to movies such as Top Gun and "Axel F" from Beverly Hills Cop. For a video game to have a movie composer is pretty remarkable. One thing I didn't like, though, is the music can get repetitive. In one part of the game there is a rock/Gothic/Celtic song with a beautiful female singer. The first time I heard the song, I thought "Wow! I really like this song." But after 10 times in a row I started to get a headache and went to the settings and turned the music off. Once I turned the music off, I was able to better hear the sound effects such as the leaves rustling in the wind when outdoors and water dripping and echoing when underground.

I love the magic system in this game too. Unlike D&D games where you have to memorize a spell and then it is used up once you cast it, this game has a much more flexible magic system. There are five realms of magic: earth, air, fire, water, and necromancy. And you have so many points of mana that you can use to cast your magic. Each spell costs a certain amount of mana when cast. This way, you can keep casting fireball as many times as you want until you run out of mana. I had my right mouse button mapped to my fireball spell, so I could left-click to attack with my sword and right-click to cast my fireball. There are a total of 100 spells in game, and don't forget that any character can learn any spell. This system of magic casting I found to be far more flexible and fun than D&D based games. There is also an extensive alchemy system for creating potions, gems, and traps, but I haven't tried it yet.

Another really cool feature of this game is what is called stacking. If you find more than one sword of the same type, then instead of selling the ones you don't need, you can stack them. What this means is that if you stack one sword on top of the other, it merges into one sword that is suddenly more powerful and can do more damage. You can also stack armor and spells. I have never played a RPG game that let you do this before, and I just love this feature. This way you can create really powerful items from a very simple item. I ended up stacking my bow to create a super powerful bow. I bought over 30 of the same bow and stacked them all to create a bow that could cause over 300 points of damage!

Finally, there is a multiplayer mode to this game. The box says that you can play online with others in a MMO setting with arena duels and cooperative play all for free. But I wouldn't buy this game for the multiplayer mode. If you really want a multiplayer game, then I would recommend World of Warcraft, Star Wars Battlefront 2, or Halo 3 (for the 360). But if you are a fan of single player fantasy RPGs, then get this game.

Two Worlds is an excellent fantasy RPG game, but it is not perfect. Like any game, there are some things that could be better. In the multiplayer mode you have more choices when starting out with your main character. You can choose male or female humans as well as other races and classes. But in the single player mode, your only choice is a human male. I think a lot of girls out there will be upset that they can't create a female character. Neverwinter Nights 2 has this game beat in that respect with a huge amount of choices for races and classes with male and female versions of every one. In NWN2, you could spend hours just creating your character. But in this game, your only choices are appearance such as eye color, hair color, and a few other things.

The interactions with NPCs were kind of limited. When you talked with someone, it locks you in to a cut-scene like interaction where your character can have a conversation. But your choices for conversation were kind of limited. Also, a lot of the NPCs looked the same. And where were all the women? The few women I found didn't even want to talk to me. They just told me to go away. The only woman I could talk to was the main character's sister, who is the hot chick on the front of the box.

Probably the thing that most needs improvement in this game is the voice acting. Unlike Oblivion where they used professional actors like Patrick Stewart to do the voices, this game's voice acting is really bad. I should have given this game a four star rating instead because of the bad voice acting. Many of the characters all sound (and look) the same, and the main character has a monotone voice (in Neverwinter Nights you can choose what kind of voice you want your character to have). This makes you just want to skip through the dialogue and then check your journal to see what your new quests are. The good thing is that you can skip through the dialogue. You only need to press escape or the space bar. Also, I am so sick of hearing the words, "methinks," "mayhap," "perchance," and other archaic Old English words.

Finally, there is one other thing that is really annoying me about this game. Even though my character has really high strength, my inventory quickly fills up and I end up having to drop many items because I can't carry them all. This has forced me to put more and more points in strength every time I advance in levels just so I can carry more equipment even though I wanted to put points in my other attributes. What good is it to find really awesome armor and weapons if I can't even carry them without having to drop other things in my inventory? As it turns out, the multiplayer version lets your horse carry an unlimited amount of items. But this feature is not available in the single player game.

When I first heard about this game, I thought "Okay, here's another RPG game with orcs, elves, and dwarfs. This has all been done before. Nothing new here." But after trying the demo, this game far surpassed my expectations. I feel like this is the RPG game that I have always wanted to play on my computer. So hopefully this review will convince you to buy this game. Despite the few things that I didn't like, Two Worlds is an excellent RPG game that is worth playing.

After buying this game, I still love it and think it is an excellent RPG game for the PC. My thanks to the people at Reality Pump for making a really good game. But the game clearly loses points for the bad voice acting and the lack of character creation choices in the single player game. Other than that, this game will keep you entertained for a long time with the open character development system, great magic system, great graphics and sound, and a huge expansive world to explore. It is definitely worth your 50 bucks. And unlike World of Warcraft and some other games, you don't have to pay an extra $15 a month to play it.

In the future, I hope that Reality Pump comes out with some updates to this game to fix the limitations and an expansion pack to add more content. I would like to see all the multiplayer options in the single player game (more character creation choices and mounts that can carry your stuff), and I would love to see flying mounts that can be ridden on. Can you imagine having a flying dragon as your mount? And to be able to fight from your dragon with a lance like in Dragonlance? One of the spells you cast is "summon wyvern," but unfortunately you can't ride on it.

PROS:
- open-class character advancement system (you can learn any skill from any class)
- huge world to explore with an open-ended non-linear quest
- great magic system with an extensive alchemy system
- the best graphics I have seen in a RPG game yet
- the best sound I have heard in a RPG game yet
- weapons, armor, and spells can be stacked to create more powerful versions
- 6 different mounts to ride and fight from
- free online multiplayer

CONS:
- limited character creation options in the single player mode (human male only)
- horse can carry unlimited items, but this feature is only in the multiplayer version
- limited choices when interacting with NPCs and bad voice acting
- most NPCs were men, hardly any women! (more hot chicks please)

This game is unpolished, unfinished. Don't waste your money.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 21 / 25
Date: September 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was all hyped by this game after reading about it on the net. I foolishly pre-ordered it thinking it might be a fun hack'n'slash like Diablo or Sacred.

I was wrong.

For an RPG, you have one choice and one choice only in the singleplayer game. Male. Human. That's it.

There are no classes. No races. You can allocate points to different skills but your combat will come down to this for every fight, I'm not kidding. Right click (fireball), rclick, rclick, rclick. Out of mana. Sword/staff L click, L click, L click.

You can't target mobs. You can't change targets. The game targets for you. You cant click a body to loot it. You have to walk up to it, an 'eye' appears and you hit the spacebar to interact with it. There is no mouse pointer on the screen at all. I hate not having control over what I want to do in a game. Let me choose my target, please.

The mobs, and boy the variety you'll see (wolves, bears, and boars), all come in packs of 5 or more. You won't find a single mob in this game it seems. The graphics are subpar. I read somewhere this graphics engine was being developed in 1998. Believe me, it shows.

The sound..I could go on and on about the sound. Suffice it to say, if you have a Creative card, GOOD LUCK getting it to work. I finally manged to, don't ask me how. The FAQ suggests (get this), removing your Creative driver and going back and using the ol' MS generic drivers as a fix. I guess they really are thinking in 1998, eh?

The quests aren't fun, the voiceovers are horrid, and fighting from mounts? Good luck controlling your mount or steering it. You'll dismount for ALL of your combat you'll get so fed up with it.

I'm not trusting any new SOUTHPEAK for any games again. No more eastern european game designers for me. I'm done with them. They've always dissapointed me (Beyond Divinity anyone?)

Trust me..pass this one by.

Great Gaming Experience

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: November 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Seriously, this game is loads of fun. First let me say I love Morrowind, and have put over 200 hours into Morrowind. Oblivion is like a super polished Morrowind and so after 10 hours of Oblivion I bailed, just can't do a repeat of essentially Morrowind on steroids. Now after 14 hours of Two Worlds, PC version, I'm having so much fun. It's a different feel from Morrowind and Oblivion. A somewhat more complex and interative adventure. I love how all the creatures have rather unique attacking methods. You do have to work on differing strategies. I love the magic system based on cards you find all over the world or purchase at select merchants. Cards offering you various spell casting abilities. Air, Water, Earth, Fire & Necromancy. Casting spells is easily handled with hot keys. So yes, you can hack and slash with a wide assortment of weapons via the left mouse button and cast your main spell with the right mouse button or various hotkeys. And you can rotate up to 3 weapons with the R key. The alchemy system is intuitive and darn near all ingredients can be mixed into a potion. This is loads of fun. The travel system is great, you can go by foot, by horse (buy or steal one) or by portal. You can even battle while on horseback if you level up correctly. Plus of course the horse can hold inventory. I currently have 3 horses. Horse riding is quite realistic. The map on the game is huge, but not as huge as Morrowind. In Morrowind you could take 20 minutes real time to walk from town to town. In this game no more than 4-8 minutes. Hey if that's too long, get a darn horse. The game world is inhabited by various wild animals like wolves (which attack in packs) and bears (which attack solo). That for the first 6-7 hours are pretty hard to defeat. They even respawn at night in limited numbers as ghosts (if you killed them) which is an interesting twist. The characters you meet all speak in their own voices, which is cool. Of course there are varied quests and different guilds you can join. But really the fun is in the fighting which is spaced out just enough to keep it lively and never a bore. But never overwhelming (so far no more than 8 opponents at a time.) And the terrain is very hilly, which has a nice effect. No just flat plains. And instead of just swords, arrows, knives, clubs and magic, you can learn to set various traps for your enemy like fire bombs which is a blast. Another thing I like about combat is that your opponent can knock your weapon out of your hand. This happened to me while fighting a group of skelton warriors. And caught me totally by surpise. Fighting is best handled in 3rd person, as you can easily be surrounded by enemy. But you can play the game in first person too. Overall the world has a realness to it, and since when you die your character will respawn at the nearest health temple, you don't have to play the game saving just before all major battles. Even though you can save anywhere and the autosave happens automatically before any major event takes place. Also it's cool how you can upgrade your equipment by finding the exact same equipment and putting them together as one. Works with everyting including the magic cards. Anyway, this game is lots of fun. I admit I do have a top of the line system with a Geforce 7800, and have no problems playing at 1280x960 all effects on max. I can't speak for lesser systems, but, I'm done... and expect to be having fun for another 50 hours!

A Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: September 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Okay, i was getting told by a lot of my friends that this game was awesome, so i downloaded the demo and then got the game. The reason is very simple. I dont know why these reviewers are saying what they say about oblivion, but on my pc, its simply not true. Two Worlds' graphics blows Oblivion's out of the water. Other reasons why Two Worlds is better than Oblivion, and worth more to play:

1. The effects of the magic are so much better than oblivion, stunning graphics, and an optional auto-aim system for those of you who cant really aim a fireball. (Be careful about having it on in a town though, if you shoot magic around for fun, you can accidentally hit the town mayor as he rides past, which is generally NOT a good idea.

2. The enemies are darn smart. Besides the animals always hannging out in packs, (the ones who are supposed to, like the wolves), and coming for you 3 and 4 at a time, enemies that dont stand a chance against you realize they dont and they run away. (You should be doing a LOT of running away at first, too.)

3. YOU CAN CREATE YOUR OWN MAGIC SPELLS!!! Geez, thats enough for me.

4. I can run Two Worlds at high graphics with no problem, whereas oblivion ran at low graphics and was still very choppy in certain areas or with many enemies. In fact, the only computer ive seen that can run Oblivion with full AA and highest graphics was one that was set up with dual GeForce 8800's and 4GB of RAM. And quite frankly, Oblivion isnt worth me spending over $1000 on video cards and memory just to play with prettier graphics. O, and for those considering buying Two Worlds or Oblivion, here are my system specs to compare against:

Pentium D 2.8 Ghz Dual Core
Nvidia GeForce 7600GT
1GB DDR3 RAM, (I will have 2GB in about a month. With 2 GB you could probably turn up the AA to full, i have it at 2x currently).

5. No more hopping like a bunny rabbit! Oblivion jumping was a mockery, Two Worlds is much more realistic.

6. Awesome real world skills. My favorite one so far is kicking dust at an enemy to blind them for a crucial few seconds.

Overall, id have to give Two Worlds a 4.8 out of 5 in both the fun rating and the overall rating. There are a couple of bugs, which is inevitable when it is first released, but these should be fixed, and the game runs so much more smoothly than Oblivion. Not to mention the fact that Oblivion was notorious for its many and several times, plot ending, bugs, while in Two Worlds ive only found two so far: An unbeatable wolf, so i simply ran away, and a merchant one time where i could sell everything i had, get the money for it, and keep the items in question. I liked that bug. :)

There are a couple of cons that some people wont like. The character customization in single player, well, quite frankly, it doesnt exist.

And, as one other reviewer mentioned, you cant carry a lot of stuff in your inventory. However, this seems more realistic to me, rather than in Oblivion where you can carry like 600 pounds or something and still run. Yeah, right. The simple attempt of trying to fit the Holy Sword of Demon's Wit, The Shield of Angelic Might, Dragonslayer, and 100+ other items onto your back, well, thats just unrealistic. So you cant pick up every single item that drops. Big deal. However, this will bug some people, so i thought id mention it.

Very few games amaze me, but Two Worlds is definitely in the top 10 games ive ever played. My mouth literally dropped open when i started the demo for the first time, the graphics were so good. And when i first started it, the graphics were only at medium high with no AA. When i turned the settings up, things just got better. Ive seen Oblivion fully turned up at a friends house, and Two Worlds, on my computer, is nearly as good, and you can play it even without a supercomputer! Yea!

Worthless piece of junk

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: September 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Someone took TES III Morrowind and Fable TLC, chopped em up and put em in a blender and out popped two worlds. This game is so awful that I felt literally sick after only 5 minutes of play. Oh lets not forget having to activate it online before I could even use it. This game has been an utter waste of $50 and over 3 hours of my time. Its like lighting a $50 bill on fire and watching it burn but much less entertaining than that would be. Please save your hard earned money and buy something else.

Graphics = Bad
Sound = average
story = unoriginal
voice over = worse than a cheap Chinese film
controls = Horrible
Character creation/modification = sub par

All in all South peak didn't try very hard and it shows, badly.

Great Game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

TWO WORLDS REVIEW October 4, 2007

PROS: Really cool visuals such as monsters, terrain, buildings, people, etc. Nice sounds, decent armor and neat weapons with upgrades. This game has many side missions with treasures and magical special effects.

CONS: The dialog could have more variety, authentic medieval armor is lacking, angelic (good) spirits are missing from the magic world, more modesty for Kira, the horse riding has some quirks.

This is the first RPG I've played and I love it. The character can be played as an upright guy or as a scoundrel or somewhere in between in every mission. The game has gorgeous landscape, buildings, caves, water, flora and fauna. Lots of bad guys and monsters to kill and loot to claim! The character's abilities noticeably get better, such as how he uses his weapons or magic, as he upgrades his skills. Different types of bad guys and creatures need to be taken down with different types of weapons (by piercing, slashing or bludgeoning) which means you need to acquire various weapons to succeed.

The armor and weapons can be changed and upgrade as money and/or chance loot allows. Most of the characters in the game have more Roman style armor than medieval. While the weapons have a great variety, the same cannot be said about the clothing/armor. The game does offer the leather, chain mail, partial armor and full armor types of clothing, but the choices within each of these four basic categories look very similar in style. I wish they could have included within each category a variety of more authentic looking middle to late European medieval clothing/armor. It would have been nice also to have a color choice button that one could change at any time whatever color (solid or two-tone) one wanted (within reason) for one's own style of clothing/armor. After all the Black Knight wants black leather clothing (when he is traveling around) and black armor (when he is fighting)! Also why can't the cool medieval Japanese-style gold armor of Ashos be purchased in Ashos?

Another suggestion would be that the storage compartment where one stores loot and goods should be divided into two sections: one for those items that you want keep and use and the other where you just store those items that you intend to sell.

The missions are many and at times a bit confusing, but so is real life. I like the way people react to you. A much larger repertoire of dialogue however is needed. Also the game ought to add children and women with babies and sounds that go along with kids and parents even as a background sound which would be a nice added touch in the larger towns, villages and castles.

I've had this game two weeks and I found myself playing 5-6 hours in a snap, going to bed way after midnight. It is so fun and engaging with new adventures everywhere! The visuals are great with stars filling a moonlit night sky. At times I just stop and look at the scenery from a mountain top - truly beautiful!

Thanks South Peaks for Two Worlds! Aside from cons above, I'm looking forward to having many adventures in this terrific game and hope for a future expansion pack or two!

Stop Your Whining!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is, without a doubt, one of the most carefully thought through games ever made. The graphics are breathtaking. I told someone this game is what Gothic 3 should have been and what Oblivion could have been. (CRASHES DON'T OCCUR ON A SYSTEM MADE FOR THIS TYPE OF GAME!! IF YOU HAVE CRASHES *BUY A NEW COMPUTER!*) Don't get me wrong... it's not without it's faults... there are a few broken quests, the mini map is too small to see where you are going, the voice acting is *horrible*... but, to me, the story is well written... the creatures and monsters are original and unique, the sound is fantastic, the music is worth buying on CD and again, the graphics are picture perfect. What game out there for a high end PC (like mine) can you actually *see* the texture of fur on a demon? How about life like chest hairs on a Mercenary? My major complaint is, it was *way* too short to truly do justice to the story. If you don't like the voice acting all you have to do is learn how to read & right click to skip most of the voice. It seems people are in way too much of a hurry to find fault with something instead of realizing the difficulty in making a game of this magnitude and enjoying it for what it is... another amazing leap technologically. Play this game for more than a couple of hours and you won't want to stop... I didn't for six days until it was complete and I *still* didn't see everything I wanted to. I'm going back to start again later today...

What a shiny pile of junk this turned out to be

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Before I start let me say I really wanted this game to be good, I really did. This is likely why I gave it so many chances to redeem itself, only to see it fall flat on its face.

To be fair, it does look good. On the highest quality it approaches Oblivion, almost but not quite. It does have a storyline and a plot, not good ones mind you but still more than Oblivion ever managed to offer. It offers lots of open ended play, and will keep you entertained for many hours.

Sadly, this game is completely undone by the gameplay itself. Let me elaborate. You start the game by customizing the level of ugliness you want your human male main character to have. No option for additional races or even for a female character. Just several slidebars to adjust things like hair style, lip size and whatnot. If this sounds like Oblivion, it should, this game merely uses a badly constructed, shameless ripoff of the creation system Oblivion used.

After giving up on ever making a character you can stand to look at, you may start the game. The game start off with some battle fundamentals, thus introducing you to the horribly broken system of combat. Essentially, you use the same three hit combo over and over. After finishing the combo, you will stand there uselessly for a second or two and allow the enemy to pummel you senseless, at which point you begin again. You cannot block or even fight while moving, the best you can do is hop backwards. This fancy little dodge is more of an insult than anything. Many times I attempted to jump back to avoid being hit only to be nailed anyway and stand there uselessly for a second. At times, combat is so slow and jerky you feel like you are playing a turned based game.

After seeing combat, you are then introduced to the amazing world of voice acting, or rather the lack of it. The acting is terrible and completely drags you out of the game. The use of "Thees" and "Thous" gets annoying very fast and brings you to reply "Forsooth, you all sound like morons." Shakespeare never wielded a sword, casted a fireball or met even a single troll, please don't make characters sound like him. The main characters voice is terrible. I have no idea why they casted such a terrible person for the part. After hearing him speak for more than three seconds I would have scratched the voice portion of the game altogether.

The world of the game is rather large, so horses are provided for your use. Sadly, I don't think the game designers have ever been near a horse. They handle terribly, react slowly, and get stuck on nearly every object you encounter. They even come to a full stop when you try to run downhill. The horrible bugginess of the horses in the game finally caused me to swear the things off and walk from that point on.

While the list of things I hated about the game can go on for hours, I think I will bring up one last killing fact then call it good. Game balance. I really dislike the fact that I could wade through an entire melee against countless enemies completely unscathed only to catch one arrow in my plate-armored back and be killed instantly. Or worse, to be attacked by enemies that can kill you in one hit. These two events happen about five to ten minutes into the game by the way.

Wrapping up, Two Worlds had the potential to become the next Oblivion. The addition of a plot and storyline was exactly what Oblivion needed, and I had hopes that this game would do it. The complete failure of creating a sensible battle system or even balancing the weapons and monsters makes this game gut-wrenching to sit through. Add the last blow to the head known as terrible scripts and voice acting, and you get one amazing pile of salty garbage which we may now call Two Worlds.

Great Third-person RPG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Terrific dungeon-crawling RPG using a third-person view. Graphics are terrific, although you will need a powerful computer to run this game in its full glory. But slower computers can run the game if you dial down the "eye candy" and you'll still get an enjoyable experience out of it.

Some have complained about the horse control and there is a bit of a learning curve in controlling the horse. But using a horse is necessary to get to places on the map quicker than walking (there are portals to get you to places very fast, but most of the time you will have to walk or ride to accomplish everything you need to in this game -- and there is a LOT to do. I played this game for 2-3 hours every day for a month and hadn't even explored half the map.

The only problems I saw with the horse were the horse occasionally will suddenly turn and want to go a different way (sometimes that's the result of enemies being nearby or you may be too close to something like a large rock, and if you get on a large rock, the horse may get stuck there (although you will be able to get off the horse and off the rock), and in some cases the horse will not enter or leave towns. This seemed to happen mostly with towns that are fortified with log walls -- I could sometimes enter a town but in trying to pass through it, the horse would refuse to exit the other gate, and sometimes I could not enter a town on a horse. This may have been something the designers did.

There are no loading screens between the map areas, which gives the impression that you're just exploring one huge map. Occasionally there will be a few seconds delay as you pass from one area to the next, but this is usually very quick. This may be the reason for horses not being able to go anywhere and everywhere.

Riding the horse is just too cool. I've ridden real horses, so it was surprising how well the horses in the game work -- walking, trotting, cantering, and galloping.

There are caves and dungeons to explore -- almost too many. Some are small, others are huge and the enemies are usually pretty tough.

Weapons and spells are plentiful and of many different types. Numerous merchants will sell you everything you need and then some. You can gather herbs and create potions, some of which will enhance your weapons and spells. As you pick up weapons of the same type, some can be added to a weapon you already have to make it more powerful.

About the only complaint is the game is too big. You'll spend a lot of time walking and riding around trying to find everything. For me, that part is enjoyable, but some may find it drudgery in which case you can just concentrate on the quests, of which there are many.

I could go on and on about this game, but if you like this type of game, try the demo at least. I think you'll be hooked.

Wow, just wow. My new favorite RPG!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game... I saw another person playing it and was a little skeptical about the game. I decided to take a gamble (buying the game), and boy did it ever pay off. This is probably the most fun RPG I have ever played. Even on a moderate graphics card the graphics still look awesome! As for the gameplay, this is not one of those 'click to attack, attacking goes by rounds' games. You actually click to attack each time, and depending on the type of weapon, you can control the style of fighting as well (slice, slice, spin/slice, etc). The storyline is awesome. There are some that would think that there are not enough quests to do in this game, but the rapid leveling makes up for it. Another cool thing about this game is that if you have, say, two pieces of armor of the same class, you can stack them making them even more powerful (this also works for weapons ;) ). Overall if I had to classify this game I would say it is a lot like Diablo II, but on a much better engine and with much better graphics! Definitely a great buy! I can't stop playing it!

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