my Two worlds 2 review

Heres my Two worlds 2 review for you all…….

this is quite extensive but hopefully not to much of a bore.





Two Worlds II is a rpg game developed by Reality Pump and published by TopWare Interactive as a sequel to the 2007 game Two Worlds, and although it is tied loosely to the first is really its own game and playing the first isn’t needed at all.

The story picks up directly after events of the original Two World’s with you and your sister held captive by the evil Gandahar. You don’t know all the details at first but you are officially listed as “prisoner” at this point. Your sister has the power of Aziraal trapped within her and Gandahar is draining her powers away in an effort to supplement his own as he exerts his plan to dominate the lands of Antaloor. We are soon thrown into control of our hero as assisted by allies you didn’t know you had you make a daring escape from captivity which brings you to a path to destiny that is much larger than you could ever imagine………and let the adventure begin….

Basically I will say from my own experience with the game the plot is weak at best, but does do enough to hold the overwhelmingly immense quest base well, this game has quests galore and they are so much fun and enjoyable that it has to be said this is where this game truly shines as a fun and somewhat addictive RPG.

The game is a third person RPG simular to the likes of Oblivion and Morrowind.



The quests vary from collection/fighting/stealing/stomping/racing your way through Antaloor and they are simply put, a tonne of fun to work through.

You can set up three hotkey fighting styles which allows you to seamlessly switch between say a melee style to a archer or maybe a mage class, the great thing is you can set each class to have different gear set ups which also switch automatically giving your class the best stat boosts possible without having to swap gear and waste time from your daily hack and slash.

As you hack your way through the lands you will undoubtedly collect a massive amount of loot, now this is where one of the shining stars of this game come into play, the crafting system is amazing, you as you level can dismantle, combine and upgrade all of your weapons, armor, rings, gems and spells, what is brilliant about this idea is weapons and armor have a much longer life span, you can break down your loot making room for more inventory space and have heaps of fun trying out different things that are quite unique.





Of course there are shops around the towns and cities which allow you to sell your loot or buy your gear, and because of the crafting system you can buy an average piece of gear and turn it into something special….

You can pick pockets, as well as lock pick, and both of these options have fun and simple mini-game modes.

As well as that you can also ride horses and sail boats to travel around, or if you are too lazy for that, you can use the teleports that are scattered all over the place, once you have discovered a teleport location you can tele back there from any other location at a click of a button.



As well as that you can also create and refine your own magic spells, by collecting spell bases you can combine and create your own spells once again making for some fun and interesting combinations as well as that you can stack them for added power which is great.





That’s not all you can also create your own potions, yes that’s right by collecting body parts, and vegetation you can combine and create an almost endless variety of potions which can be as simple as health or mana regen up to revive spells, this combinations are endless.



So keeping all these ideas in mind, when it comes to allocation of your skill and level points you have to be mindful of what you are trying to focus on, you have level points which affect strength/mana/health/ and archery as well as that you have skill tree type things for each of the fighting classes as well as magic, crafting and stealth, each of these are also broken up into specializations so the amount of choices are huge……..



As well as that you have the same again for the multiplayer modes of the game, I haven’t spent a lot of time online with the game but there are PVP and PVE modes, as well as adventures where you can co-op through varying quests with up to 7 friends, these quests vary from 30mins at the start to 2 or more hours in that latter adventures.

One great feature is you really do feel your character getting stronger as you level up, its great to experience and one thing missing from other games of it type in resent years.

The map is informative and shows current quest locations as well as that you have a quest log which is great, you can place your own markers at destinations which show up on the in game hud.



The graphics are very good, the world looks clean and is huge, the map is massive, some of the areas are only accessible through the multiplayer but with various caves and dungeons at your deposal there is plenty of variation to keep you interested.



The in game music is a bit repetitive but other than that the rest of the sound effects are fine if not great, the voice acting is actually quite good and the sense of humor is good and some of the one liners delivered are classic.

So to the bad aspects of the game, there are some graphic glitches where body parts can act a little strange, somewhat similar to some of the glitches in fallout 3, and there are occasional random crashes, fortunately the game AutoSaves a lot and saving manually is easy as pie….

This game is huge fun don’t go into it thinking of an epic storyline, but if you go in thinking hours upon hours of great, fun quests and action you will be pleasantly surprised, I am 20+ hours into it and am only just starting out chapter 2 of which there are 4……….and it seems that on average the game will yield between 70-100 hours depending on how many quests are completed.

I don’t care what anyone says that many hours of fun filled quests is great in anyone’s book.

I give the game a very solid 7.5/10 if it addressed some of the crashing issues it would be a definite 8/10

I run the game flawlessly on max settings using my M17x

Well that’s it if you have any questions feel free to ask.

 

Good review..

Please post updated impressions once you get through chapters 3 and 4, though - I assure you they'll arrive sooner than you expect

You might be unpleasantly surprised, though.

 

ok well anyway all my friends that have completed it played it for a minimum of 65hrs doing most if not quite all the quests, even if chapters 3 and 4 take less time its still a very solid length for a game especially in today's standards.