Gothic Universe

by Dreamcatcher

Product Features

• Follow an incredible story over the course of three intense games
• 3D action adventure with over 300 hours of exciting gameplay
• Immerse yourself in the most realistic and fascinating game world possible
• Liberation or annihilation - the fate of the world of Gothic lies in your hands!
• Huge living and breathing environment reacting to the player's actions and creating endless choices of interaction

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000VPRAFM
• Item Weight: 15 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 16, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,743 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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Product Description:

The epic story of Gothic, now in one package: Begin your journey as a prisoner of the King, who must find enough magic ore to forge weapons for his army in defense against the Orcs. The mines are set in a large magical sphere and inside this sphere you will start exploring Myrtana's mysteries. Once you've managed to burst the bonds of imprisonment, you will need to explore the island of Khorinis. Willing to do whatever is necessary to banish evil once and for all, defend the people against the Orcish threat and venture deep into subterranean temples. After your escape from the island you didn't find safety: The Orcs have finally conquered Myrtana and enslaved the humans. Barbarians of the icy north and a few fearless rebels are the only resistance. You can either support their efforts or join the Orcish occupation forces. Whatever you decide, the destiny of Myrtana is yours to forge.

Features:

• 3D action adventure with over 300 hours of exciting gameplay
• Immerse yourself in the most realistic and fascinating game world possible
• Liberation or annihilation: the fate of the world of Gothic lies with you
• Huge living and breathing environment reacting to the player's actions and creating endless choices of interaction
• Hundreds of weapons, items, spells and artifacts to equip and use

Product Description

The epic story of Gothic now in one amazing package: Begin your journey as a prisoner of the King who must find enough magic ore to forge weapons for his army in defense against the Orcs. The mines are set in a large magical sphere and inside this sphere you will start exploring Myrtana s mysteries. Once you ve managed to burst the bonds of imprisonment you will need to explore the island of Khorinis. Willing to do whatever is necessary to banish evil once and for all defend the people against the Orcish threat and venture deep into subterranean temples. After your escape from the island you didn t find safety: The Orcs have finally conquered Myrtana and enslaved the humans. Barbarians of the icy north and a few fearless rebels are the only resistance. You can either support their efforts or join the Orcish occupation forces but whatever you do the destiny of Myrtana is yours to forge!FEATURES: 3D action adventure with over 300 hours of exciting gameplay Immerse yourself in the most realistic and fascinating game world possible: Myrtana awakens! Liberation or annihilation the fate of the world of Gothic lies in your hands! Huge living and breathing environment reacting to the player s actions and creating endless choices of interaction Hundreds of weapons items spells and artifacts to equip and use Format: WIN 2000XPVISTA Genre: ENTERTAINMENT Rating: RP UPC: 625904558411 Manufacturer No: DVD55841MB

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

32 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A fun package (revised), December 21, 2007

By 

Erik Schultz (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Gothic Universe (Video Game)

(REVISED REVIEW 1/18/08 - Bump overall rating to 4 stars)

If you have never played any of the Gothic series, this may be a good place to start. Gothic 1-2 were simply excellent games. I would, in fact, consider them to be all-time classics, almost on the level of Baldur's Gate 2 and Fallout (but in a very different style). Gothic 3, unfortunately, was a bit of a misstep, buggy even once patched and jettisoning almost all semblance of plot - and the plot was one of the strongest points in Gothic 1-2! See the Gothic 3 reviews for more details (stunlock, lol)

Apparently this packed DOES include the Night of the Raven expansion for Gothic II - the item description does not make that at all clear, and does not mention it at all. So I've updated this review accordingly.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great oldschool open ended rpg, December 17, 2007

By 

FoTain (Tx) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Gothic Universe (Video Game)

In Gothic, the King needed slaves to mine the ore that makes powerful magic weapons to help in the impending war against the Orcs. Prisoners were to be used to mine and to keep them imprisoned in the mine area, the king had wizards erect a shield in which humans may enter but not leave. By some mistake the wizards shield was way bigger than expected and trapped the wizards, the prisoners, innocents, and cutting off the world from the entire mining site. Now the king has to barter with the prisoners who now control the much needed ore. You are a prisoner thrown into the camp who is destined to protect the mining colony from monster and orcs, while working with the wizards to blow the barrier and escape the prison.

Gothic II picks immediately up where Gothic I leaves off, as the orcs have arrived for battle and taken much of the mining camp.

This is a great game. If you enjoy open ended games like Morrownind, Obilivion and Arx Fatalis, then you'll really enjoy the Gothic series. The graphics are a bit dated, but not enough to turn away the hardcore rpg gamers who want an awesome open ended experience.

In Gothic 1, the controls are very bizarre and seem to make no real sense. After the learning curve of the controls you understand why they are so strange. The controls are improved in Gothic 2 but still a bit bizarre by other rpg standards.

The battle system is alot more fun than the ones in other open ended rpgs that I have played. The story is pretty good and the setting is very interesting. There is a big open world for you to explore, and plenty of treasures and secrets to discover.

A+

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good and Bad, March 7, 2008

By 

Gary E. Welsh - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Gothic Universe (Video Game)

I had heard good things about Gothic II; so, I recently picked this game package up. I have completed Gothic I and just started Gothic II. Reviews I have read concerning Gothic III were not totally favorable.

Issues: Gothic I was released in 2001 and does not seem to like running on Windows XP. It continuously and frequently froze-up/crashed. I have a high-end system; but, even lowering all the game setting parameters did not help. Error messages appear to indicate that it couldn't locate the files it was looking for. During game-play, this was very irritating and my forgetfulness to continuously "save" after each successful event proved painful. Gothic I is a "keyboard" game and the controls are difficult to use and initially very frustrating - not getting the right keys while getting beat on gets old in a hurry! Gothic II makes use of the left mouse button for "action," instead control + and arrow key. This set comes as three disks, with NO printed documentation/manuals. Gothic III has a PDF file on its disk; but, you'll need to go to www.replacementdocs.com or similar web site to download the manuals for Gothic I and II - the odd keyboard controls make it a necessity. Even then, in Gothic I, some required keyboard actions were not even documented in the manual and searching the internet was necessary to accomplish things (e.g: swim underwater = control+right mouse button). There are some still some known "bugs" in the game; but, no updates/patches are available for Gothic I. I have found patches for both Gothic II and III on the web. Only Gothic I would auto-install. Both the Gothic II and III disks required that you manually install them. I was initially concerned that my game disks were defective.

Goodstuff: Despite the frustration caused by the crashes and controls (which tempted me several times to just give it up), I found Gothic I to be one of the better games that I have played. The Gothic I story line, while linear, is excellent and the balance within the game made it a challenge from beginning to end (I played as a mage) - I was never "king of the hill" but had just enough to accomplished what had to be done. The Gothic II disk is the "Gold Edition" and includes the "Night of the Raven" expansion game. I have heard that Gothic II is one of the best RPG's of this genre that's been put out. If it proves to be true, then the play-value of this "package" has been well worth its price, regardless of what Gothic III proves to be.