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For my tastes this second instalment of Drakensang (The River of Time) comes close to being as enjoyable to play as the excellent Dragon Age Origins.
I found the original Drakensang game (The Dark Eye) very hard to get in to. I restarted several times because as I discovered more about what I could actually do in the game I found myself wanting to revisit areas to explore things I had missed, but the first Drakensang wouldn't let you do that...
Thankfully this second instalment allows much freer movement. The fast travel option is particularly welcome, especially in the large cities when you find yourself on one side and wanting to go directly to a place on the other side (running through the same streets over and over got a bit boring in the first game).
Quests are interesting from the beginning and you don't have to play deep in to the game before you get immersed in the story through the liberal use of cut scenes and speech from the characters you meet. Places you have `completed' remain of interest by the introduction of new people, quests and services which appear as you progress further in to the story. The harvesting of regents is now less of a pain too as they grow back and you aren't stuck with a finite supply.
I have never played the paper RPG this game is based on and I feel that actually mattered in the first game as it punished you mercilessly if you had no idea what you were doing. I feel this instalment is much friendlier, and if you don't discover potion making until you are 20Hrs in to the game it doesn't really matter, where as in the first you had probably missed out of getting some key recipes by then and couldn't go back...
No crashes for me yet (XP Pro 32, 4GB RAM, GTX 460)
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