After I finished beating
Sacred this year, I bought
Sacred 2, which I just finished yesterday on my PC. Both games can be quite linear; however if you do most of the side quests (some are wrong for your good/evil alignment) in each area, you can have a fine time and spend many happy hours on these two games and the linearness will then not be as apparent.
In
Sacred 2, I played a Nature Weaving Dryad using a longbow rather than a blowgun in Bronze mode and had no problem with the bosses, other than getting killed a few times.

Oh, also I always play in single player mode and have heard the online community is yet too small to make online playing convenient, for those that wish to.
I did get stuck a couple times and came to Gamebanshee for help,

but those were on side quests and I either worked harder and figured it out by myself, or left the task unfinished.
In order to play
Sacred and
Sacred 2, I took a time out from my first time playing the original
Neverwinter Nights 2 when I got to the boring (at least to me) "Sim-Keep" portion of that game. I will now return to it NWN2. I think these three games and
Dungeon Siege II borrowed much from
Diablo 2, which I'd rather they hadn't, but that is just me.
I do understand the lack of available manpower must cause management to make unwanted decisions, or at least postpone implementation of their true desires. And because I don't think
Sacred 2 is yet available for some of the major gaming consoles, the postponement may not be that horrible; except to we early players of this game.
To wrap-up this lengthy bit of nonsense,
I suggest that Gamebanshee add walkthroughs for these two excellent games, Sacred 2 and Sacred, in that order, for those who get stuck in the future. Or at least a have their forum(s) where questions can be answered by the moderators and/or other members.