TWO WORLDS II GET ON HORSE FULL
The game is full of strange in-jokes and dry wit, and the overall story is lighthearted, despite being about a kidnapped sister and a quest to save the world. While some of the voice acting can be genuinely bad, a vast majority of the performances are almost knowingly silly and over the top. The game’s sense of humor is one of its most endearing traits, with Two Worlds II never quite taking itself seriously. Once the player learns a few fighting skills, the combat becomes a lot more involved, and the variety of eccentric missions, while still relying on fetch-quests and backtracking, each carry their own strange and often humorous narratives. Two Worlds II bucks this common trend and only becomes more delightful as it opens up.
It is rare for a game to start out terribly and then become great - it usually happens the other way around. Eventually, and without the player even realizing, it has become buried in the mind like a vicious little parasite. The game slowly, surely, starts to get interesting. Once the prologue is over, however, something happens. Not to mention, the combat is a dire case of random button-mashing with a targeting system that only works when it wants to. The game is slow, the Hero is weak, and the enemies feel imbalanced. The game starts with a tawdry prison breakout mission, as your nameless Hero escapes from the clutches of Gandohar, the series’ sister-kidnapping, stereotypically tyrannical villain. The first hour or so of Two Worlds II is downright terrible. Yet somehow, it manages to become a rewarding, engrossing, absorbing experience at the same time, and the most amazing part is that you’ll never see it coming. Its animations are awful, its combat loose, its voice acting ludicrous and its story inane. This plucky, heartfelt, can-do attitude permeates the game experience to create something that, truth be told, is pretty damn great. Two Worlds II knows it’s never going to be an Elder Scrolls or a Diablo, but it does its thing regardless, without apology and without remorse. Two Worlds II is not the best made game in the world, and if you have even a modicum of intuition, you’d have already guessed that. Two Worlds II (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC) Without further ado, it is my privilege and honor to confirm to you that yes … Two Worlds II is better than Two Worlds! When Naughty Dog needs to make an Uncharted sequel, it has an increasingly tough act to follow - all Reality Pump needed to do was to be better than the worst roleplaying game created this generation. Reality Pump had perhaps one of the most enviably easy jobs in videogame history - create a game that was better than Two Worlds.
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