Gothic III & SpellForce 2 GDC Preview

The folks at FiringSquad have written up a two-page preview that combines all of the information they learned about both Gothic III and SpellForce 2 at the recent Game Developers Conference. A bit about Gothic III:

One aspect of the game that is being played up is Gothic 3’s combat system. The developers stated that this new system will allow for “unprecedented control over melee attacks” and while we were not allowed to actually sit down and play the game for ourselves, the demo at GDC certainly looked like the combat system has gotten some improvements with some smooth combo moves being made on enemies with the character’s weapons. We were told to expected over 50 monsters in the final game along with over 100 weapons and over 50 spells, so Gothic III shouldn’t lack for variety in this area. We were also told to expect a large amount of NPC dialogue and impressive AI as well.