[360] Two Worlds

Two Worlds 

Maximum Players 1 Minimum Players 1

Type of Player To Accommodate: RPG – 1^st/3^rd Person Medieval Stylee

I have to admit – this game blew (past tense!)

I turned it on – after a rather ‘sucked-in’ purchase (the front cover is lush!) and was greeted by what could only be described as ‘Amstrad’ world.

The graphics were a joke – I could have done better!… With Crayola’s!… Left Handed!… Underwater!

But that being said – Id just completed Assassins Creed – and was looking for filthy RPG to sink a few double-digit hours worth of gameplay!

And with Morrowind 3: Elder Scrolls being my dream game (I love you) the screen shots of this nugget seemed to be same Genre.

After getting my head around the graphics – I realised that not only were the graphics ‘gash’ but the gameplay had a very very very noticeable delay. The glitches and jumps were quite alarming – it seems to need to load map at every 20 footsteps – or even freeze for no reason and then carry on (Lag on a non-online game?) But this being said – you get used to it. The crusty graphics, the staggered game play, and the embarrassing voicing! (I think the actors behind the voices may have bee freebies!)

I managed to suck it up, take a breath and continue in. Yes – the Morrowind lover inside of me cried silently, but this game DOES have the same aspects. Customisable everything, brew your own jazz, upgrade weapons – missions, quests, side lines, hundreds of enemies – so it does tick the RPG’ers boxes.

I’ve got a fair way through now – I’m relatively invincible and achieved this with just under 13 hours gameplay. Now I’m a bit stuck for the main story line (don’t get me started on the backward-controlled-map-screen) but sometimes stuff gets ludicrously hard to follow!

This being said – some people who are perhaps RPG light weights who like a dabble with a battle axe – will not be able to stomach such Commodore 64 like gameplay and jovial voice actors – but us hardcore’s will fight through.

Gamer Points wise, not bad – slow little 5’s and 10’s to start with – but a whooping 370 gamer points for killing “main story line boss” seems a bit tasty for me not to go ahead and finish now…

All in all – a good little game if you can trick yourself into imagining your not actually sat at the worlds most powerful console.