Gothic 3 Review
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The game's horrible performance keeps me from enjoying the game. Saving takes 10 to 15 seconds (no progress bar appears) and loading can take several minutes. Saving often is the only thing you can do to deal with the unfair battles and other issues I have described above and playing this game will make you intimately familiar with the loading screen. All these issues have such an impact on your enjoyment that the game is just -not- fun to play. It's simply too frustrating and the hope that patch 1.09 would resolve these issues went up in smoke right after installing it.
So while I can feel Gothic 3's brilliance ooze through the low framerate, I can only conclude that this is yet another title that should not have reached the shelves yet. Another 3 months of bug hunting and engine optimizing would have made this game a match even for Oblivion but right now, I can only recommend you to buy one of the other great titles this fall season, and buy the game when Piranha Bytes and Jowood have released another patch or two.
