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a classic
Piranha Bytes' Gothic is an unconventional game that takes place in an unconventional setting:a magically sealed prison in a stark, grim fantasy realm. Even though the developer calls it a role-playing game, it is a hybrid game that features RPG, adventure, and action elements. It does have standard role-playing elements, such as experience levels and character development, but it also places heavy emphasis on dialogue and inventory puzzles and has some real-time action sequences. You play as a single character, an anonymous, soft-spoken convict who's been thrown into the game's world, which is both a prison and an ore mine. Though you'll start the game as a lowly peon with no skills or abilities, you'll eventually become an accomplished adventurer who will join one of the colony's three main camps, but not before you get into a tussle with some rowdies or with some of the colony's indigenous monsters. Both of these can and will squash you flat, at least at the beginning of the game. To it's credit, these vicious enemies make the game's world seem as hostile and as unforgiving as you might expect a prison colony to be. However, once you start exploring and meet a few of the game's characters, you'll find most of them to be very talkative, as they explain how to interact with the game's world, as well as give your character simple quests to perform. Unfortunately, Gothic's fighting system just doesn't work well. It's fairly simple; you ready a melee weapon, a bow, or a magic spell, target your enemy, and attack and defend by pressing the "use" key together with movement keys. Multiple enemies can and will surround you, attack you from the rear, and cut you down before you even have time to angrily curse the largely unresponsive control scheme. Moving and fighting both require you to use your movement keys, so actively trying to dodge while fighting and defending is basically impossible. And using ranged weapons like bows can be even more frustrating, since attacking enemies from a distance causes them to come charging straight at you. That's not to say that Gothic's control scheme is flat-out awful, but it does have problems-and so does the game's interface. For whatever reason, it uses a fixed third-person, behind-your-character's-back view-a view that usually gets blocked as you explore the game's winding mountain passes and narrow caverns. What's more, though, Gothic lets you use your mouse to turn your character, the game doesn't actually have a cursor. This is puzzling, considering that the only way to interact with your surroundings is to target them by turning and facing them to highlight them. Gothic features some impressive lighting effects. The game also features day-and-night cycles, and the lighting effects are at their best at night around the different prison camps, where moonlight and torches cast realistic glows and shadows. Unfortunately, Gothic's architecture and scenery are generally rather plain, and its character models are very blocky and are textured crudely. Gothic's sound is also a bit uneven. The game's music consists of appropriate, if generic, symphonic tracks that are so subdued that you'll often forget they're even there. Gothic also features decent ambient sound effects that are especially good in outdoor areas. If you can actually get past all of the game's problems and can also appreciate its strengths, you may well enjoy Gothic.Read full review...
Gothic rocks!
Love this game in whole,it has three parts and each part has hours of gameplay, the
story lines are inteesting and each part also has multiple endings. The graffics for ech part are nice as well as the background scenery. Overall this is a great game.Read full review...
Gothic PC Game
This game is Great!! Great story line. This is a tuff game to play which I enjoy. I've died more on this game than any other RPG. I like how I controll were i go and what i do. I would recomend this game to everyone who enjoys playing RPG The details on the characters could be a little better. I have window 2000 on my computer and this is one of the best games I've been able to play on it.Read full review...
AWE (awe-ful!!!) Inspiring
OK so it is an old game... It is amazing how bad it is even so. I supposed back in the day just to have a 3D game was enough. Motion makes me want to hurl... Squidgy lighting and darkness do not make up for bad ideas.
Take a pass! You won't be regretting it in the morning.Read full review...
Gothic Rocks
This is an awesome game. If you like linear games, youi'll hate this one. This game is similar to Elder Scrolls, ie. you can kill anyone and go anywhere. Lots of items and missions. Three sides to choose from. If you want an awesome quest game, this is one for you. Only down side is the controls, which you easily pick up after a few hours of play.Read full review...
Gothic
After playing Gothic II, and the expansion Night of the Raven, I just had to play Gothic. There was no let down in quality when going "backwards" in the series. The graphics are good, the control and game play is similar, and the game is not a resource hog.Read full review...
Very Satisfied
I enjoy the game very much it is mind boggleing but interesting and fun to play. I plan on getting the second one very soon since i liked this one soo much. If you are i9nto wierd but fun and exciting games to play on the PC keep this one in mind.Read full review...
Not bad for a old game.
Old school keybord set up took some time to get use to. Graphics are good but the story or the game takes some time to get going. For the price I paid it was worth it.
my view
decide to try some role playing games for a change this one seems quite easy to play with the use of the guide book for help
My 12 yr old loves it!
I bought this for my son, he loves it. He says it's a lot of world of warcraft, where you build and stratagize and battle.