The things that make the difference

As any respectable RPG, you will have skills to use. Here you have 39 skills to use and to improve. This means that you will be able to play the game as you want. You want to be a mage? There are 5 magic schools you can use: fire, air, earth, water and necromancy, each with its own spells. Want to be a sneaky rogue? Or an archer? No problem, you can be whatever you like. For the warriors the game has a lot of skills, more or less common, making it very replayable. 

As you improve your skills, you will transform into a killing machine, adapting to each action just for fun or because you need to. Some missions involve silent killing, brute force or a little magic.

The primary attributes are vitality, dexterity, strength and willpower. These four will increase your stats because you will face more and more powerful and dangerous monsters.

Second Opinion
By Emanuel Avram

When I saw my colleague playing this game, I had to try it for myself. I was really disappointed with Gothic 3, and while I haven't played a ton of similar games, I did enjoyed Gothic 2 very much. I really hated that the latest Gothic game was so poorly optimized and I couldn't enjoy it at home even if I had a decent system. I guess that I really needed to play something similar, but nothing competitive was on the market.

Two Worlds manages to recapture some of the magic from the Gothic universe, without requiring an extreme gaming system. The game looks incredible and vast, and it runs decent on almost everything.

I've seen some bad comments coming especially from Oblivion and Gothic fans because I guess they feel threaten a bit by competition. I'm not suggesting anything else than to actually give this game a chase. Who knows, you may enjoy actually end up in enjoying the experience.

Amongst a few ideas that were taken from similar RPGs, there are some brilliant shining new ones. The alchemy for instance. There is no rule of what potions you can create. Add this and that and this and you get a new potion. Add a mana potion, some fire resistance stuff and some cold resistance stuff, you get a potion that increases your fire and frost resists, and your mana of course. If you increase your skill you can get some amazing results. So the results are predictable, while you still have fun in experimenting. For example, it's only logical to obtain a temporary increase ins stats while drinking a potion made out of herbs that have temporary effects. It's also normal to obtain a temporary effect potion out by mixing another temporary one with a permanent one. And isn't mix-n-matching and trying stuff what alchemy is all about? (besides turning stuff to gold, which no one seems to care these days).

Then there's the whole “stacking weapons” of the same type innovation. You can upgrade weapons by merging those of the same class/type. That way, you can choose to keep your favorite weapon for a long time, and it also helps with clearing up your bag space a bit like my colleague said. Furthermore, if you magically enchant it with some sort of elemental damage, you won't have to lose it.

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