Arcania: Gothic 4 Reviews
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My advice to Jowood is simply this: It's time to pack it in. In all the years I've followed you, you've yet to release a game in good condition and worse still, you use paying European customers as BETA testers for your eventual American audience. Arcania is simply the latest in your long line of half-baked game launches. From the broken (still to this day) Guild 2, to the horrendously imbalanced Spellforce 2, to the mother of all catastrophes - Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods expansion, you have proven one thing loud and clear. You have no goddamn idea how to publish games. I conclude this review with a post I found on an Arcania forum, responding to someone's regret at having purchased the game:
"You got Jowooded. Congratulations! Being Jowooded is the closest thing to being raped."
I couldn't have said it better myself.
ActionTrip hands out a 4.9/10:
To make things as short as possible, Arcania: Gothic 4 needs something to pull it away from the colossal bog of generic gaming, which is its current home. There's nothing distinctive about the world we're allowed to explore. Additionally, you have rather basic combat mechanics and a crude and uninspiring character development system. This is just another action RPG, destined to get lost in the ocean of other similar-looking games (did I say ocean, I meant pond... I said pond earlier, didn't I?).
And then NextGEN Gamers finds it worthy of a 6.5/10:
Gothic 4 is definitely a mixed bag in more ways than one. It's received little to no attention on some of the bigger gaming sites and it might be a little underrated in this regard - as it is a solid RPG. It follows a safe path in terms of it's story and quests, but still manages to keep me playing 30 hours in even if it is for all that loot. Environments keep it interesting, and the combat holds up really well. You could call it generic and I wouldn't be able to argue with you, but if you were looking for a slightly more hardcore than average RPG to sink your teeth into, this should be on your list of games to play. Fable 3 and New Vegas came out, amazingly, within a week of Gothic 4, and both offer much more refined experiences. so I wouldn't recommend it for everyone. Play Gothic 4 if you're in need of an old school RPG fix, but otherwise you're not missing out on too much.
