Risen 3: Titan Lords First Tidbits

Now that PC Games has reached its subscribers, some first, scant details for Risen 3: Titan Lords have been summarized by the World of Risen forums in English. My German isn’t exactly perfect, but I still believe I can do a better job than Google Translate:

Battle system:

– There is a prologue section in which you can already experiment with mit high-level abilities, after which you continue as a level 1 character
– Monsters can be blocked
– From the beginning an evasion roll and a short distance teleport are already available to escape from battles
– Big armors and swords, and also fireball und lightning attack
– Voodoo magic is expected to be included again
– Unconscious enemies can be robbed again
– Party members, who help in battle, appear again
– Battle system with four different actions and rudimentary combos

– DLC offer bigger scope
– Roasting meat, and similar actions take place in a separate window again
– Game world: primarily Middle-european, but there also Mediterranean and tropical regions
– The world is again completely hand-crafted by Piranha Bytes
– It’s possible to swim again
– As in Risen 2 there are separate regions – free exploration of the game world without loading screens is also again not possible
– As always there are many guilds (probably three) you can associate yourself with
– Already known are the Watchers, which correspond to the Paladins of the earlier games
– New enemy: the Shadow (Undead, that rise from the Skull Caves)
– The soul of the main character is eaten by a mighty shadow lord at the beginning
– Afterwards he gets a “soul value”, which can be tipped in the demonic or human direction.
– A new hero, but the protagonist of the previous games will still play an important role
– All food is again listed as “Provisions” in your inventory

Technical:
– Steam requirement and no mod tools, like Risen 2
– The game is developed for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 -next gen consoles weren’t mentioned in the preview
– The engine is the same as Risen 2’s, with improved detail rendering – but the cons of Risen 2’s graphics (e.g. the rudimentary dialogue animations) should still be present and when compared in particular with its competitors The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Dragon Age: Inquisition, aren’t up to modern standards.

– Expected Release: August 2014