Risen 2: Dark Waters Preview

Official Xbox Magazine is offering a hands-on preview, based on roughly one hour of hands-on time with the title. Here’s a snip:

After conversing with another nearby barrel worker, Butch, we figure out that Butch is in charge and won’t release the embargo and, thus, we can’t get our H20. So we stroll back over to Miles and ask how we can get Butch (out of the way.)

It’s here that developer Piranha Bytes tells us that there are multiple ways of treating scenarios like this. We could bribe him, lure him into a nearby cave and then eliminate him, or possess him via voodoo-doll means and get him to tell the other workers that the embargo is off and the water barrels can begin flowing again.

We try the latter first, acquiring a lock of Butch’s hair (using the old, (Hey, look over there!) trick as a distraction) and combining it with an emerald and a couple of other materials in order to create a voodoo doll. Activating the mini-Butch, we’re given control of the barrel boss, so we walk him over to his underlings and tell them to cancel the embargo. Problem solved.

Just as a reminder, we’ll have our own in-depth preview for Risen 2: Dark Waters, so keep an eye for it.