Risen is a game that has not received a lot of media coverage. It snuck in under the radar wearing a Golden Cloak of Anonymity. Nobody expected much from it. Nobody even saw it coming. With a long heritage of RPG’s in the Gothic franchise, it was not expected to be completely terrible, just not a star. With my Review Sword +1 and my Ring of Subjectivity +3 I took the plunge into this mysterious world.

Good games consist of lots of good moments. Great games are one big great moment. Bad games are filled up with bad moments. Terrible games prevent you from finding out if it has any good moments because you stop playing before the good moments show up. Risen falls in that last category. It was so nearly a bad game. But not even a lot of perseverance saw this game pull itself from mediocrity.

Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Risen.

Risen, the upcoming RPG from Deep Silver, will be hitting shelves this Friday, the 2nd of October. The game will be available for the Xbox 360 and PC.

Set in a medieval world on a volcanic Mediterranean Island, the Risen story unfolds over four chapters, with players’ actions and decisions affecting how the story develops. The game features the voice talents of Andy Serkis (best known for lending his voice as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings trilogy), John Rhys Davies (who starred in Indiana Jones and The Lord of the Rings trilogy) and Lena Headey (who played Sarah Connor in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles).

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