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Gothic 3 (PC DVD) | 
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| From: Deep Silver
Category: Video Games
List Price: £34.99
Buy New: £3.63
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New (11) Used (5) from £3.63
Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 1613
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Genre: role-playing-games
Media: Computer Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 11 - 18 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 9006113133018
ASIN: B000A432TW
Release Date: October 12, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New and dispatched within 24 hours from the UK.
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Amazon.co.uk Review:
In a nutshell:
It's not just the Japanese that can put together a decent role-playing game, as the Gothic series returns with state-of-the-art graphics, a giant game world and more monsters to vanquish than a whole Tolkien trilogy. The lowdown:
It may not be as famous as The Elder Scrolls games but this latest entry in the Gothic series can give Oblivion a run for its money as the deepest, most expansive Western role-playing game around. The plot isn't necessarily the highlight of the game but you are completely free to sign up with the rebels defending your homeland from orcs or welcome your green-hued masters and get work as a mercenary. The combat isn't quite as slick as it could be but the game world manages to offer both a huge amount of freedom and a more focused set of story missions, that make levelling up far less of a chore than in other games. In fact this is probably one of the most underappreciated Western role-playing games around. Most exciting moment:
The most immediately impressive aspect of the game are the graphics, which are truly stunning. Although the game features all kinds of unpleasant monsters and violence, in actual fact just wandering around the unspoiled verdant game world is strangely entertaining in itself. Since you ask:
Although you only play as one character throughout the game, not a team, you do get allies helping you out during certain sections of the game. They're a bit foolhardy when it comes to taking on bad guys but it is nice to have the company. The bottom line:
The best Western role-playing game you've never heard of.- HARRISON DENT
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 Fun, but requires lot of resources, crashes like mad March 25, 2007
Alin Constantin (Seattle, WA, USA)
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
Fun to play, good improvements over Gothic2 in graphics, resources management (e.g. don't have to wait 50 times to cook 50 pieces of meat, items increase health in percents instead of points, etc)
But...
Uses only one CPU, 100% (so having a dual or quad core machine is no help)
Requires lot of resources (I'm playing on Vista, 2GB memory, NVidia 7600), the game gobbles up the whole memory, up to 1.5MB of memory when it crashes with "Smart heap: Out of memory" errors.
This happens during Load or Save (regular and Quick); after restart the saved game is corrupted, and trying to load it will deadlock. Annoying!
Great expectations.... but January 14, 2007
H. Walton (UK)
22 out of 28 found this review helpful
Gothic 3 has probably been the most eagerly awaited follow-up (at least by afficianados of Gothic 2) for many a long year. It took no time at all for its promise as a graphically stunning, massive RPG to be fulfilled... but a little longer for the flaws to start showing themselves.
In the first place, it requires a top-notch system (faster than 3GB with a high-end graphics card and at least 2GB of memory) to run with any show of eagerness. In the second: this game is bugged. No, it's not bugged: it's infested. It was clearly published in a hurry by a company far too eager to get its hands on its customers' money. If it was play-tested at all, then the developers ignored what must have been a huge catalogue of errors, omissions and crashes.
Two patches have been released, neither of which does more than scratch the surface of the problems with which this game is beset; massive improvements are called for if the game's potential is to become even close to being realised and it's doubtful if that will ever happen.
My own feelings on playing Gothic 3 are of being enormously impressed by the graphics and atmosphere... and then utterly and completely frustrated by the interminable bugs and crashes. I left it incomplete and will take a lot of reassuring and convincing before I buy Gothic 4... Piranha Bytes please note!
 Wonderful game - If you persevere! December 29, 2006
Garrett (East Anglia, Great Britain)
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
Everyone likes a free-roamer, and that is what attracted me to Gothic 3.
From the screenshots and exhibition videos, it looked preety damn good too.
However, at first play I admit to being slightly dissapointed.
The graphics are not the best I've seen, and fighting seems a bit too off-balanced for my tastes. (Being mowed down by a Scavanger before you can even grab your sword being a perfect example).
I gave it several tries, and once you get past these annoyances, plus some dodgy body physics, Gothic 3 is a very good game.
I know only one game that allows you to do things like smithing, mining and even cooking and that is Runescape, an online game.
The good storyline, the sheer amount of things you can do and the choices to make shows Gothic 3 to be a very special game indeed, and I would reccomend it to any fantasy, role-playing fan.
 Awful bugged game - save your money November 28, 2006
Paul Tinsley (Colorado Springs, USA)
24 out of 32 found this review helpful
This game has some astonishing bugs and issues that devastate enjoyment of the game. There are simply too many to mention. JoWood should be fined by the Games industry for releasing such a poorly constructed piece of software. A high end PC makes no difference. Avoid it! You were warned!
Gothic 3 vs. Gothic 2 November 15, 2006
I. Feldman (Naperville, IL USA)
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
I've played all the games in the Gothic series and believe that Gothic 2 (G2) is the best. Gothic 3 is a return to the feel of Gothic 1. While the scope of Gothic 3 (G3) is great (choose your own path, side with Orcs or humans, etc.) and the settings are lush, the motion is choppy, the movements of the characters are very limited (and somewhat ridiculous looking when they converse), with voicework that is often just annoying. As others have pointed out, Oblivion IV (O4) offers a much better feel and immersive experience with lesser system requirements. With Gothic 2, saving was much faster, the environment was better, and the screen views made you feel more 'in' the game. The monsters in G3 look awful compared to G2. In the end, it is less real so provides less of the RPG experience that G2 and O4 do. The story is nonetheless engaging with more options than G2 and more to do. So, if you set your system correctly, are willing to risk the odd crash here and there, wait upwards of 30 seonds while the game saves (you need to save frequently because it is easy to be killed), and focus on the story more than the experience, you can still have many hours of fun. This is probably more for the hard-core Gothic/game playing enthusiast than the casual gamer.
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