TWO WORLDS II REVIEW HOW TO

TWO WORLDS II REVIEW HOW TO

How is the player supposed to know how to level up if they’re never told? Why does my shirt disappear in one armor set and not the other? And so forth. One of the basic concepts in game design is the implementation of a helpful learning curve, which takes on extreme significance in RPGs with complex systems. Combat, the central piece of interaction in this genre aside from conversation, just disappoints, especially when coupled with the embarrassingly awful enemy AI, an example of which being the rhino you can stand directly behind and continuously slash in the ass until it dies without it ever turning to face you. Ranged attacks are clumsy and slow to use (even when highly upgraded), and magic requires the perseverance of a MMORPG god, though the ability to augment each power with another power that’s also augmented has the potential to be incredibly empowering. Because of wildly fluctuating difficulty levels, only melee combat ends up being useful for the first quarter of the game. While the Equipment Set transference system is as pressing up, left, or right on the d-pad, there’s almost no need for it. The formula, in this regard, closely follows the Elder Scrolls IV tradition, but makes the tragic misstep of stiflingly sub-par gameplay supported by a deep but otherwise banal item- and skill-management system. In terms of scope and length, the journey offers scads, nay, a baker’s dozen of scads of quests (both side and main) and one of the biggest game worlds around.

Like Two Worlds, TW2 follows a young male adventurer on a quest to save the land from a fairly generic fantasy evil (named Gandohar this time around) by developing various alliances through a variety of errand-boy and go-here-kill-that missions.

So if it’s not funny-bad because the comedy is so thickly veiled, then it’s just bad. Two Worlds II is like the Evil Dead of modern RPG gaming, except that unlike B-movie horror, the game is not 'so bad it’s good.' While the gameplay can be hilariously off-putting and the main character’s voice registers a laughable, Dark-Knight-esque low, it takes a serious cynic with a very specific and patient sense of humor to enjoy TW2 ironically. It is not, however, worth playing for fifty hours maybe five. Two Worlds II has all three of these important qualities. 'Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,Īnd tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,įor a role-playing game to be worth a fifty-hour time investment, there’s got to be a giant world to explore, a deep system for upgrades and customization, and more quests than you can shake dual-wielded iron long swords at.

Two worlds ii review