Risen 2: Dark Waters Magazine Preview Tidbits

A user over on NeoGAF has put up a list of details taken from the post on the German World of Players forums sharing tidbits of the German PCGames preview of Risen 2: Dark Water.

Story

– you are again the same nameless heroes of Risen
– he is now living in a small harbour village called “Caldera”
– you are now wearing the Ocular of the inquisitor (story relation not known yet)
– the game is now spread about multiple islands
– there is still the inquisition located on one of the islands
– the story is more complex and will have different consequences depending on your choices
– you will meet familiar faces like Carlos, Gregorius Steelbeard,…

Setting
– pirate setting
– its no longer on Faranga from Risen
– you can travel to different islands by ship (if you can have an own ship is not known yet)
– in the sea lives different sea monsters who attack ships
– it will also have an fast travel system on the islands
– the islands will have different climate zones with different settings and monsters
– guns,canons and othe fire weapons in the game
– there is still magic
– skill system same as Risen
– should feel more realistic than Risen (for example chests who are empty or have rubble in it, but to every chest is a story)
– the world is bigger as in Risen
– side quests should be more complex than in Risen

Graphic / Technic
– animation is now motion captured
– NPCs and monsters more detailed
– bump mapping, realisitc relatime clouds instead of a skybox
– more realisitc faces
– no loading times on the islands and invisible walls only short loading by changing the island
– NPCs talking with each other (for example you can hear a conversation between too NPCs when the treasurer leave his treasure)
– every NPC has a daily routine like in Risen
– in the night different monsters than on the day like in Risen

Monsters
– there will be Gnomes again
– minecrawler
– some familiar and some completly new monsters
– also normal animals like apes,boars,… depending on the climate zone

– Risen 2 is about 80% done they doing voice recording right now