Risen 2: Dark Waters Preview

German video game website GameStar has recently put online a detailed four-pages preview of Piranha Bytes’ sequel to Risen, and fansite World of Risen has been kind enough to translate it for those who don’t understand German. Here’s a sampling:

All abilities and talents can be learnt via teachers, can be improved, and rely on five basic attributes: Close range (Blade skill, sabres and daggers), Far range (Shooting skills, pistols and rifles), Cunning (Silvertongue, dirty tricks, bomb planting, dodging, and so on), Toughness (Intimidation, immunity to swords and bullets, “booze-courage”, and so on) and finally magic, which, at the present time, we can only speculate is Voodoo based.

To increase our attributes we need experience points; to learn talents, we have to pay gold. Whores can teach us Cunning skills, especially Silvertongue. We gain additional skills by obtaining legendary items. The variety of weapons, items and clothing is far more complex and broader than in Risen 1. You can even preview and compare items — quite the progress.