Most of the time the player is in third person mode but, on occasion, the player has the opportunity to enter Sniper Mode – a first-person shooting mode. It almost becomes comical which, unfortunately, also distracts from what you should be paying attention to. For the most part, the voice acting isn’t too great either – sometimes surprisingly bad like watching a late night ‘D’ movie. This may simply be a way for the designers to break down larger cinematics into more manageable ones but to the player it just comes across as strange. You then walk the character across the bridge and, as soon as you reach the other end, yet another cinematic starts. A good example of this is a cinematic that leads to a bridge and ends.

If you are riding fast on your mount, you might get both at the same time! Another point to bring up are the seemingly out-of-place, random sections placed in-between cinematics at the beginning of the game. This frequent loading can dampen the mood and get the player a little edgy, because it means that either a big piece of eye candy is about to load or a big bad beastie. One of the only problems with all this is that it can be taxing on the system and, since it is pulling all this graphically-rich expanse from a disk, it pauses to load things often. It first thins out your interactions with other creatures to hopefully make you bored of traveling that way and, if that doesn’t work, it puts a landmark such as a mountain ridge in your way to help maintain your gaming suspension of disbelief. Also, when the game wants to limit where you go it doesn’t just stop you at an invisible barrier. It is subtle but well done, honestly if I wasn’t reviewing it I might not have been looking for such things and just gone with the excellent flow the atmosphere develops. They create tension when there needs to be and peaceful sounds accompany moments when you are just traveling and taking in eye candy. The cinematics throughout the game are excellent as is as the musical score. I won’t spoil anything but they set the mood and give you a pretty strong suggestion of who are the good guys and who are the bad guys while also showing the dark times that have befallen the land. This game starts off setting a great atmosphere with an excellent cinematic opening scene where the story is quickly established through one character’s flashbacks. While they have similarities that could be compared and contrasted for pages, I will judge Two Worlds II – the latest game in the Two Worlds series, on its own merits (or lack thereof) and leave the Oblivion/Two Worlds debaters to their YouTube comparison posts. Two Worlds is an excellent game and Oblivion is an excellent game.

Two Worlds publisher Zuxxez’s Dirk Hassinger really stirred up a hornet’s nest in the gaming community when he said in his opinion that Two Worlds was deeper and more complex game than Oblivion. Okay, maybe not the first since there has been TONS of debate, but I will say it at the beginning of my review. Alright, I’ll be the first to say they asked for it.

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