Two Worlds Update:
I'm holding off on picking this up until it's a budget price. I chatted with the guys at their booth at PAX, and they were really nice. The game sounded great. I tried the multiplayer PvP and had my rear handed to me due to lag. I know, lame excuse, but I let one of the staff take over for a minute to prove my point... my character could not land any hits as it was lagging behind
I took the demo DVD away, and installed it as soon as I got home. It's not what I expected. It certainly has some interesting elements, and I kept playing it, but it was painful. The dialogue is terrible, probably due to translation, but they mix in old English with modern American to create a painfully forced result. The game itself resembles Gothic 3 far more than to Oblivion, and does not live up to the hype.
The quests mostly seem flawed in the demo. The promos all rave about horse combat, so I found a horse standing around in a goblin camp, so I took it, and charged into the next goblin camp... while my hits did massive damage, the horse was very hard to control as it's not so much movement, as acceleration and deceleration. In a few seconds I had managed to run myself up onto a boulder nearby, and was stuck. I managed to free my character through a combination of dismounting and jumping, but the horse will sit there forever I fear. I tried whistling, but I had a second horse from a quest and that one arrived instead.
So, my hope is that the demo is not only a small portion of the world (which I know it is) but also a bugged early version. I still found the game interesting enough to try, but not at full price
I can never understand why someone would release a flawed demo...
Arabin
