Risen Review

The folks at GameSquad have whipped up their own review of Risen, but unfortunately we have to stand it up next to many of the other unfavorable analyses we’ve been seeing. Here’s the closing paragraph that goes with the 4/10 score:

Fans of Risen will say that the game is a throwback to the old days when RPGs were hardcore, but hardcore doesn’t always mean fun. RPGs have evolved quite a lot over the last ten years, and Piranha Bytes seems content with not being a part of that innovation. Risen suffers from some really bad pacing (the first chapter quests do very little to push the story forward at all); questing is hampered by the uninformative quest journal, and the game’s clunky controls and horrid combat system suck out any joy that could be had from this game. Simply, Risen is nothing more than a bad carbon copy of Piranha Bytes’ Gothic 3.