Amazon.co.uk Review
An ambitious, sprawling and challenging RPG,
Beyond Divinity may be a little rough around the edges, but it offers an awful lot of gameplay for your money, and most of it will appeal greatly to fans of the genre. Still, it's worth acknowledging from the top that this is not a groundbreaker. Its look and feel draw heavily on other titles within the genre, and outright gameplay innovations are few and far between. However, you'd be unwise to write the game off on the back of all of that.
Beyond Divinity, the sequel to the enjoyable
Divine Divinity, presents a challenging and really quite engrossing quest. The story initially finds you bonded, seemingly for all time, to an evil Death Knight, and you're firstly charged with breaking this curse, although naturally the deep and involving narrative develops and twists many times on your journey.
On the quest, you'll find this time around that you won't just be controlling the one character either, and once again the game world is genuinely huge. There are many, many days of adventuring here, and thanks to a savvy mix of combat, exploration and conversing, it's an easy game to get sucked into. Perhaps, on the downside, it's not especially friendly to those unfamiliar with RPGs, and there are moments of outright frustration along the way. Yet this is a very good, almost old fashioned RPG, and one that represents excellent value for money. --Simon Brew
Manufacturer's Description
You are a servant of the Divine - scourge of necromancers and sorcerers alike. Your purpose in life is to fight all that is evil using any means possible. Your dilemma
during an intense battle with one of the great necromancers, a demon drags you into its universe. There you are soul-forged with a Death-knight. You are cursed and destined to spend the rest of eternity bonded to this creature of evil.
Or maybe not
.
The Death-knight dislikes the soul forging as much as you do and together you embark on a great adventure. You both have a common goal
to undo the soul forging. You and your unlikely companion quickly figure out that the only way to rid this curse is if you unlock the secret of riftrunning an ancient art that allowed the prison universes indigenous population to travel between universes.
Your quest is set: To become a Riftrunner!