Arcanum is receiving great reviews on the net so fra. I understand that, because the demo was promising, the concept is unique and - well, there aren't that many RPG's out there at the moment, are they? Here's a sum up of the reviews from today:
Electric Playground rates the game 91%:
The most diverse and open-ended RPG to date. Original ideas are followed through with wicked execution. This. Game. Kicks. Ass. If Arcanum doesn't become a long-running RPG franchise like Ultima I will leap in front of a bus.
GamePro is positive but extremely short (hell, this newsbit could get longer), no overall rating given:
So is Arcanum worth the trip? Yes, indeed, but only if you’ve got lots of techno-tolerance and time. There truly is a deep, rewarding, and splendiferous RPG behind Arcanum’s dated, clunky machina…but only the most intrepid RPG fanatics will have the patience to dig it out.
Gamespot is the exception: with a rating of 7.3/10 you can't call them enthusiastic.
At a glance--even after a while--Arcanum can seem disappointing. It's not for everyone; its strengths aren't in any of its superficial qualities, and even its story and its characters aren't particularly noteworthy. Important parts of the game, like the combat, are decidedly flawed, and none of it is very polished. Thus, if you simply play it once, straight through, which is typically all you need to do with many other games, then you might have little to show for the experience once it's finally over. On the other hand, if you're serious about role-playing games--so serious that you don't care about graphics but instead just want to immerse yourself in a different world and try to explore it, perhaps even exploit it, as fully as possible--then Arcanum is well worth the investment of time, money, and effort. Just as its premise is unusual, so too is Arcanum completely unusual--newfangled even--in its machinelike way of how it gives you back only as much as you're willing to put into it.
The review I mentioned in the subheadline of this newsbit is one in the german magazine PCAction, which, again, is very favorable. If my memory serves me right, they rate the game 88%...
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Three Arcanum Reviews
