Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
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Video Game Reviews of Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
Customer Review: a game for the future
Summary: 1 Stars
Firstly let me say i was REALLY looking forward to this game.
Unfortunately if you played the first game from launch you will remember how buggy it was, how slowly things got fixed, and how it felt like Ascaron did not care about you at all. Welcome to sacred 2!
While in 2 years i'm sure the game will be playable and fully rock, currently it is a complete disappointment. Most of us cant advance the multiplayer campaign mode without finding some poor sod to do it for us, MOST of the tele-portal things don't work (even though you can see them on your map), and alot of players cant make a multiplayer game PERIOD after level 60.
To look at things aside from the ones glaring me in the face every time i try to play this game... There are tons of invisible walls, the pathing is just dumb (as-in my temple guardian seems to be doing something tea-bag related to monsters i am trying to attack MOST of the time..he just kinda wants to get close to them ..even if he's a foot away, he wants to get 6 inches closer...and if the monster moves, he wants to get closer again), you need a pretty high end machine to run it (not really a con, but the performance vs. spec. ratio is way off -MSI 8800 ultra, 8 gigs ram, 3.2 ghz dual core processor, vista premium 64 and i STILL get sudden drops in performance every now and then for no apparent reason..i un-installed the elite GFX and it changed nothing so it isn't really the problem, i think in general its poorly coded), and the networking is garbage. Now i play online a lot, and have for a long time now, i know the difference between dropped frames and lag and differentiate, this is lag in the worst possible way, switching combat arts=a 1.3 sec delay, drinking a potion before you die about 1 solid second (which in game=time is life and death) there are few things worse in gaming than waiting for a server to realize you drank a potion a second ago as your health bar keeps dropping.
On still a third level i am one of the schmucks that bought the CE. It is THE cheesiest CE i have seen in 30+ years of gaming. the only thing i can think of that comes close was i once bought a comic book that was collectible simply because it had a hole through the center of the cover.
The map is the same map you have in game before you uncover anything, the cd sampler is a joke (not that i care for the band or anything), and worst of all all 4 disks are stacked onto 1 bindle. the elite GFX disk while a nice gesture is from what i hear soon to be available for download anyways and can currently be pirated pretty much without penalty as it is; despite paying customers having to deal with DRM.
Now for the positives. has great character development and alot of possibilities for each class (though not as many as sacred underworld since there aren't as many classes). The graphics are real tight and the world is rich with little details, i don't think there is an empty table in the whole game, every single one seems to have various beakers, books, or tons of other little intricacies scattered on and around them. The difficulty online is adjustable, so you can turn it up if you don't feel you are being challenged, and the monsters are sometimes quite impressive.
The sounds are just "ok" but thats the norm in any game (with the exception of a few starwars games i rarely see sound effects that go off without a hitch), the weather is pretty impressive at times, especially in lightning storms, and the world in general feels very huge and very alive.
In 2 years i can safely say this game will be a knock out. For now it sucks horribly, it has been WEEKS without most of us being able to simply play the game as it was intended, and Ascaron does not seem to care at all (nor do anything about it obviously). I feel like they are putting all their effort into pushing out the console version which i guess they don't understand is going to get them nowhere if all the PC players (who ARE in fact their bread and butter) are badmouthing their game and giving it horrible reviews (as if we don't talk to console gamers or something).
in short look to pick this game up in 2010 when it will most likely finally be playable.
Customer Review: Charged twice, not given credit for return.
Summary: 1 Stars
I tried to purchase one of these games, however, i was charged twice. Thae first was for regular shipping which I did not order. And the other for the higher shipping (faster) which was shipped to my customers address. I refused the lower shipping cost unit, but have not been credited for it and it has been over 30 days. I have asked my credit card company to reject this charge as I refused the order and it was returned to Amazon as I was instructed to do by your call desk. I did not personally play this game. Any help in getting this off my charge card would be appreciated. Customer Review: Play someday
Summary: 4 Stars
I've been waiting for months to get this game in my local game store. I broke down and ordered it on line which was great because I had it in a matter of days.
Unfortunately I assumed since I was able to play Sacred Gold I would be able to play Sacred 2 on my PC as well, boy was I wrong. I'm going to have to upgrade my PC before I can get past the introduction. Also having to register for an on line license to play really S--ks.
Customer Review: WARNING DRM FILE VIRUS GAME
Summary: 1 Stars
EA has got to learn that we gamers are not going to put up with this crap I don't spend thousands of dollars on building up my gaming PC to have it infected with programs that rune my operating system and let them spy on me these DRM games from EA is not worth playing for free the only way they are is a pirated version where the DRM FILE VIRUS is removed but because I am not that type of person I will never play it but on the other hand the thousands of dollars there costing every body from there viruses they put in these games now I guess they owe us them for free now at this point hu all I can really say to EA-GAMES is if you want to keep using the excuse for this DRM file as you have to look at it from a business point of view let me reverse or open your eyes a little from a business point of view how you treat your customers is going to affect your business in a good way or a bad way right now you are treating all of your customers like they are pirating the games (that they just payed for)you are spying on them (like you have that right you dont own us) you are ruining peoples computers and costing them repair fees (these repairs are costing us more then the game even comes close to new op-system [...] hard drive [...] or more repair shop for some [...] an hour) so it's nice that you think every person in the world has pirated your games but I am sure 90% of the people that downloaded a pirated version already bought the game any way and found out the hard way that the only way they will get to play these games without it costing them hundreds of dollars in repair fees is a pirated version as it don't have your DRM virus/spyware/op-system killer hey do us PC gamers a favor if you can't treat us with any type of respect show us some sort of morals get some sort of good ethics then get the [...]!!!!! you are even costing the game programmers money and if you don't change these problems they are going to lose money on there titles as long as they go through EA to have them published hell look at crysis warhead no one wants itCustomer Review: Don't listen to the clowns
Summary: 5 Stars
Sacred 2 is a new game following up a widely popular "Diablo" clone game called Sacred. A hack and slash RPG where the main goal is simply level up and collect loot.
The Good: Tons to do, Addicting fun, Graphics are pretty. Many classes to choose from. Online play.
The Bad: Voice acting is lackluster and often downright bad. Can be demanding for older machines technical specs wise.
As for the clowns: You're a minority, those of you attacking the DRM. Most user's don't even acknowledge the existence of the DRM. The "issues" caused by DRM are trivial. In most cases it's removed within months anyway, I.E. Bioshock.
People shouldn't be blasting a game with 1/5 when they aren't even commenting on the game itself. Bring up your petty argument with the developers.