Gothic 3

I know it is not as amazing as Gothic 1 and 2, but I find it to be a unique and enjoyable experience.

But I will start with the negatives:

What happened to the writing team? The Nameless Hero used to be an amazing, charismatic character, and his companions and many other NPCs were almost as great. Here, we only have 1-2 good NPCs for about 20 generic MMO quest givers.

There is a ton of filler, an ungodly amount, in fact. The quests, for the most part, are generic fetch-quests and kill-that-go-there quests.

But I wouldn't give this game a 7 if I didn't like it:

The atmosphere is amazing. The tone of the game has definitely shifted from 1 and 2; it has become less gritty, more colorful, but it still has that amazing sense of the world. Through sound, design, and just amazing music, the world and its cities feel distinct and memorable.

It is still a Piranha Bytes game, after all. We have here the one and only thing people come to Piranha Bytes for - the feel of progress. When you start with nothing and get beaten by everything, but slowly progress towards the total annihilation of everything in your way.

While a lot of quests are fetch quests, the city quests are actually quite interesting and enjoyable and give you a decision to make. And this choice does matter because the attitude will change throughout the world because the rebel camp will be destroyed, or the city will be under rebels now. I can hardly remember a game where you can side with both sides and feel like they are almost equivalent in content (apart from FNV, of course).

I wouldn't say it is a polished game, and I wouldn't even call it a must-play, but this game deserves a lot more than 2.8/5, in my opinion.

P.S. The combat is a clickfest and buggy mess, but imo it might be just slightly worse than original games, those were clicky messes as well. On one hand with have a bit more skill based combat, on the other - more modern and understandable combat.