New enemies and quests now take place up high. Once you put some hours in the game starts to open up with the ability to take on dragon form. There are some overly obscure objectives at times but finally finding a hidden tower in a valley feels much more satisfying than simply following a breadcrumb trail. This is a long way from the glowing trails and forgiving combat of the Fable games. Older gamers will enjoy a nostalgic – if occasionally painful – trip down memory lane as regular saves are needed to avoid losing progression. The lack of handholding generally will make you despair or smile, probably depending on your age. Many will be put off by this but it is refreshing to find a console game that doesn't treat you like the Xbox 360 is your first experience of gaming. A lack of quest markers or hints is similarly old-school. Grinding – killing enemies in hefty numbers – is essential to complete some quests. Divinity 2 doesn't hold back in offering a challenge. At the very least there will be enemies to defeat and often tough ones too. Venturing off the beaten track almost always rewards the player with a dungeon to loot or a quest to solve. Once you are out in the world you have relative freedom to explore. For example skills can be flexibly applied to your character allowing you to mix some nice mage spells with, say, ranger archery. On the whole though Divinity 2 follows the standard RPG template of combat, questing and exploration and does so with surprising panache. Mind reading – a neat ability to gain new quests or find otherwise hidden items – for a start. OK, the latter is spoilt by some poor voice acting but there is far more to this game than flaying ye olde goblins. Then it's off into the world for swordplay, sorcery and smooth talking. A hackneyed fantasy story soon sees you choosing between a warrior, priest, mage or ranger.
It should at the very least appeal to RPG fans looking for something prettier than Fallout 3 and more expansive than Dragon Age.ĭragons? Knights? Vengeful flames? Yes, we're very much in classic D&D territory here and Divinity 2's old school credentials are clear from the off.
One year on and with a hefty lick of paint and an expansion pack Divinity 2 returns and this time deserves to gain a far wider audience. The original Divinity 2: Ego Draconis was released in 2009 but suffered from a general lack of polish and unfavourable comparisons to genre-companion Dragon Age.
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