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Risen 2: Dark Waters
Video games have a wide-open space waiting to be filled with non-traditional protagonists and mature themes. The drunken anti-hero at the heart of Risen 2 is a fine fit, with often-amusing dialogue and superb voice work. The world he reluctantly saves is a fantastic realization of the myths of the Age of Sail. Games still need to be played, though, and the complete failure of Risen 2's combat system makes this a difficult story to get into. Our hero wakes up with a hangover months in the making, missing an eye and full of irritation at the ungrateful citizens of the world he saved in the first game. Rescuing a comely pirate lass from sea monsters and being sent undercover to uncover a conspiracy among pirate lords seems like a wonderful start to a grand swashbuckling adventure. Unfortunately, the first rough edges show up immediately after this tutorial section ends and the nameless protagonist makes his way, barefoot and shirtless, into the first portion of the story proper. While the writing stays above-average through the course of the adventure – our hero has no patience for fools or anyone who expects him to do much besides lay about and drink, and loudly proclaims such in amusing fashion at any opportunity – the crippling problems with combat begin right away.
Risen 2: Dark Waters Review
Note: Our full review has been delayed by technical difficulties that were just recently resolved by a new Nvidia driver. While we power through to the end, here's what we're thinking so far. Today's lesson: Fortune favors the roguish. After roughly 12 hours, I'm still boot-deep In Risen 2: Dark Waters -- the hefty sequel to 2009's well-received RPG, Risen -- and have come to the irrefutable opinion that I am just too damned nice. It's not entirely my fault, though. As a longtime RPG player, I've always played the goody-goody, namby-pamby hero because most RPGs tend to reward altruism a teensy bit more than villainy (plus, I'm just an all-around nice guy). In Risen 2, it's better to embrace your inner thief and learn early how to become an intimidating, larcenous lout. Here are a few of my impressions of the story's beginnings, with a full review to come soon. Wrath of the Titans Set some years after the conclusion of Risen, the story picks up with you once again playing the Nameless Hero, now a member of the Inquisition. The Titans of myth have devastated much of the world, and now sea creatures are interfering with the shipping lanes to Caldera, the headquarters for the Inquisition, and to make matters worse, word has it that the Kraken will soon be unleashed.
Risen 2: Dark Waters Review
Known for crafting vast, detailed virtual worlds, developer Piranha Bytes has been making single-player open-world role-playing games for over a decade. Its Gothic series presented colossal explorable spaces and offered hardly any direction, challenging you to define your own journey through the world. You didn't find things because a designer placed a bunch of signposts all over the environment that read "This Way to Hidden Cave of Magic," you found them by accident, on your way to complete some other objective, or simply because you decided to wander. Such an unscripted experience led to moments of extreme frustration, but also made achievements feel meaningful and personalized, instead of inevitable events along a rigidly defined path. Following the overly ambitious and buggy mess that was Gothic 3 in 2006, Piranha Bytes and the Gothic franchise split ways. For its next project under publisher Deep Silver, Piranha Bytes created a new fiction in Risen, retaining many of the elements that made Gothic great: open-world freedom, rewarding exploration and a gritty, believable world.
Risen 2: Dark Waters (Preview)
Can Risen 2: Dark Waters overcome its difficult past?Risen originally found you washed ashore on a volcanic island, faced with Titans and monsters while ruins mysteriously erupted from the earth. The CG trailer for Risen 2 released earlier this year plays a similar tune, showing how Piranha Bytes continues to take its original pirate RPG theme to its logical conclusion by bringing together swashbuckling and dark voodoo magic. On paper, what's basically a combination of magic and pirates is still a fraction too camp to suggest a distinguished RPG; but the fact that my notebook has MAGIC PIRATES! scrawled across the bottom of a page speaks to the way Risen 2 appeals to the primordial, reptilian part of our brains that identifies with these things.When Risen was released in 2009 it controversially split opinions thanks to a bad console port of an initially well-received PC title. At this point in development it's still too early to tell how the game compares on different platforms, however it's certainly gotten sharper. Risen 2 transplants the comedy quirks of adventure games from the 90s into modern framework. You play the "Unnamed Hero", the very same from the 2009 original, in an unlucky position that begins with being betrayed by shipmates and marooned on an island.
Risen 2: Dark Waters (Preview)
The sequel to Risen is making a bold aesthetic move from a gray fantasy world to a sea-faring island-hopping adventure while still retaining its open-world role-playing game gameplay. We recently managed to check out the latest build presented by the game's senior brand manager Daniel Oberlerchner during E3 2011. He basically recapped the game's story, which took place 10 years after the first game (detailed here in our previous first look) and introduced the hero. This hero is more or less like John McClane from the Die Hard series: disillusioned and cynical. He also put up a slideshow of graphical comparisons between the first and upcoming second game. The differences were stark; Risen 2 was much more beautiful and detailed, thanks to Pirahna Bytes' intensively reworked proprietary engine since it made its start with the Gothic series. The Deep Silver representatives then showed off the third chapter with the hero all geared up and overpowered for the demo's sake. They showed off the combat system against mutant crabs, a giant called the Leviathan, and a tomb spider that is essentially a bigger and hairier spider with an ugly mug. Each enemy the hero will fight has a weak spot that must be exploited.
Risen 2: Dark Waters (Preview)
For some people, everything is better with pirates. It’s hard to disagree, as pirates exemplify a free and easy lifestyle full of adventure. Deep Silver and developer Piranha Bytes are running with this idea in Risen 2: Dark Waters, the sequel to the 2009 original. The first game was well-received on the PC but much less appreciated on the console, and Piranha Bytes has taken note of the complaints leveraged against it. They hope to makes Risen 2: Dark Waters a much better game, and part of this objective includes a brand new pirate motif. Those just entering the world of Risen need a little overview of the first game's events. The Risen franchise takes place in a version of Earth where titans are rising up across the planet and spreading destruction throughout. Normal human beings cannot see the titans; rather, they view the destruction as natural disasters tearing apart their planet. But not the whole planet. In the first Risen, the player character defeated a fire god on the tropical Mediterranean island of Faranga. To do this, he had to first defeat the Inquisitor, an antagonist who used a magic gem in his eye to see the titans.
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