Risen Preview

After attending last week's GamesCom event, RPGWatch has returned to give Piranha Bytes' Risen the preview treatment.
As said before you can go wherever you want on the island - with one exception. The Inquisitor has passed a law that only his troops are allowed to enter the island - anyone else is brought to the harbor city or the volcanic fortress. If the troops of the Inquisition find you wandering on the island, they will arrest you and throw you into the volcanic fortress as their prisoner. You will then have to join the Inquisition whether you like it or not and you'll continue the game using a completely different storyline. This storyline will join the main plot afterwards. If you're not caught, you can go to the bandit camp and join them (if you know where to find them), however, once you've joined the Inquisition you cannot join the bandits anymore and cannot talk to them either. As it is an open game you can choose to combat the Inquisitors if you encounter them, however, it is improbable that you will defeat them because they are very strong - but if you think you are up to it you're free to do so.

You cannot get off the island. You can go into the ocean but if you go too far a sea monster will appear, it will grab you and throw you back on the beach. Fortunately it won't kill you as they figured that was too much of a penalty.
If someone continually swims out away from the island when you're clearly not supposed to, then they deserve to be killed over and over.