Gothic 3 Reviews

The weekend brings us a couple more new reviews for Pirahna Bytes’ latest Gothic installment. The first is at UGO with an overall score of “C+”:

While I’ve obviously seemed negative in this review, it is with good reason. Mind you, even though I disliked quite a few things about it, I just kept on playing it no matter what. It has quite a few redeeming qualities that I’m sure many will appreciate, for example the huge amount of content. Many are proclaiming Gothic 3 to be what Oblivion should have been, best RPG of the year, and so on. But I tend to disagree. If not for the countless bugs, the watered down melee and magic combat, the uninteresting NPCs, the sometimes-weak design, the horrible performance, the missing dialogue, and the overall lack of polish, perhaps it could have been.

While the second is at GamingExcellence with an overall score of 6.6/10:

The Gothic series has never been about following convention, and this iteration is no different. Gameplay-wise, there’re a lot of things that might turn off some players, but there’s a lot to go through, and a huge amount to explore. The bugginess really drags down the game, as does the stuttering, but when everything works right, technically-speaking, the game can be enjoyable. It’s just a shame this happens so rarely.