Gothic III

Gothic III is the third episode of the series of roleplays Gothic, left to France October 13rd, 2006. Some bring it closer with Oblivion.

History

Summary preceding episodes

Your history starts after your judgment for a minor offense and your exile on Khorinis, in the valley of the mines, a place protected magiquement where the prisoners seek ore for the troops of the king. Organized in three different camps, one initiates quickly and summarily each new arrival, of which you, with their new place of life, a place from where one does not escape. Nevertheless, you did not accept your destiny, and you found a means of leaving your prison. At the end of the day you overcame a frightening creature called the Dormeur . By doing that, you found yourselves buried, and only the intervention of the enigmatic wizard Xardas made it possible to maintain to you in life. He explained you that the death of the Sleeper involved a chain reaction, and that these effects could have repercussions in a future distance. Your adventures led you, with some friends whom you met during your peregrinations, on the coast of Khorinis, where you overcame an death-alive dragon. On one of the vessels of the king, you sail finally towards your fatherland which missed you so much. But a bad surprise awaits you there… The orcs invaded Myrtana, and only the besieged capital always resists. The country is in a state of revolt, and it seems that your adventures do nothing but start…

Current

After a long battle, the kingdom of the men lost the war against the invaders orcs. The king misses with the call since the seat of the capital. It is said that he would have died, but its body was not found… The orcs hold the main roads and the cities of an iron hand. However, instead of exterminating humanity, they are confined to dominate the grounds. Part of imposing armed gave an opinion at points strategically not very important and started to destroy the temples there. Nobody knows the reason of this strange behavior. In the kingdom, resistance protested against the occupants orcs, because there are still fortresses held by the human ones, and small military units at the borders of Myrtana. But the rebels are by no means unified, and their chiefs tear for the succession on the throne of the deposed kingdom. In these difficult times, an anonymous traveller arrives on the continent, and its exploits will decide future of the kingdom. And you are this traveller…

Play

World

The world of Gothic III includes/understands 3 areas:

Character

Contrary to much of Roleplays, in Gothic, one chooses neither his character nor his class. The character is a man which one is unaware of the name. With the fur with measurements of combat and searches one gains points of experiments (XP). When a threshold of points of XP is crossed, one progresses of a level and gains 10 points of training. These points of training make it possible, near Masters, to increase the characteristics of the character or to learn from new competences.

Characteristics: Force, Chasse, Savoir of old, Forge, Vol and Alchemy.

Group competences: Fights, Chasse, Magie, Forge, Voleur, Alchimie and Others

Reputation

The play integrates an interesting option, that of the reputation. Thus, to advance with the wire of the play and to thus reach private zones, it will be necessary for you to gain in reputation near the various people present in the play. It should be noted that an ill deed can generate fatal consequences on the relations with the people for which you work (thus, if you fly of the goods to the orcs for example, those will inflict to you to begin a good lesson then that will pass to the setting to dead).

Engagements

The combat are particularly interesting for several reasons: Initially they are realistic contrary to its competitors one needs a supposed number of blow before dying, take Oblivion it is necessary about fifteen it if one is human before dying what is foolish, in gothic 3 approximately 5 wound received from orc and side! It is death, it should be noted that one does not die also quickly or slowly according to the creature which attacks. Thus at the beginning of the play it will be easy to kill five orcs without too much difficulty whereas a wolf can has all alone to gain to him against you. Another thing which makes the combat realistic: As in Oblivion one draws its weapon of the sleeve and one gives the blows with the mouse (click left by defects) and one tries to be protected with the right click, in this way it is really the player who is good and not that the weapon. On the other hand in Oblivion the character cannot transport any more weight which its force allows him, in Gothic there is no limit….a little ridiculous.

Realism

Gothic 3 is a very realistic roleplay because contrary to the other plays or it is only possible to discuss with the other characters gothic 3 makes it possible to attack his friends or quite simply to kill them. Each action to carry out will have one impacts on the course of the adventure. It is possible to destroy a village, to as many drive out… elements which make the pleasure of play.

Magic

Configuration

Basic configuration

Processor: Intel 2Ghz or AMD 2000+
Random access memory 1 Go
Graphics card 128Mo, compatible Direct3D, DX 9.0 and Shader Model 1.4
Reader: DVD-ROM 8x
Hard drive: 4,6Go of free space
Windows XP
Chart its compatible DirectX 8.1
Keyboard, Mouse

Configuration recommended

Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3Ghz or AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Random access memory: 1,5Go
Graphics card: Video chart 256 Mo; ATI X800, nVidia 6800 or higher
It should be noted that the play is very badly optimized, to see the forums

Charts vidéos officially compatible

ATI X1900
ATI X1800
ATI X1600
ATI X850
ATI X800
ATI X700
ATI X600
ATI Radeon 9800
ATI Radeon 9700
NVIDIA GeForce 7900
NVIDIA GeForce 7800
NVIDIA GeForce 6800
NVIDIA GeForce 6600

Comments

The notes which the play received are good such as for example one 8/10 by Canard PC. On the other hand the play is badly optimized; he asks a powerful computer, and there is very many bugs.

External bonds

Official site
site of Piranha Bytes
test on jeuxvidéo.com
Principal French-speaking community on the series of Gothic

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