The moment you leave Xardas’ tower, you will encounter an incredibly lifelike natural vista, with rolling hills, dense forests and lots of thickets. The view distance is the most impressive aspect, since it lets you look far and wide, often several kilometers. You will see places with hills and valleys that differ with several hundreds of meters in height, and everything will be dressed in so many different kinds of plants, that a botanist could spend a lifetime cataloguing them. This amazing level of detail ensures that Gothic II will keep surprising you from beginning to end.