Wednesday, August 6, 2014

News::Review: Sacred 3

"I love it."


The specter of Diablo looms large over the action-RPG genre; most games borrow heavily from Blizzard's seminal game and those games' success is usually judged on how close they stick to the formula and how well they execute on that.


"Oh baby."


While it's tempting to praise a game for breaking away from some of the genre's conventions in order to make itself stand out from the crowd, Sacred 3 has stripped away so many of the things that make an APRG fun. Stats? Pretty much gone. Loot? Almost none. A really enjoyable combat system? Nope.


"Sexy!"


Oh, and there's people talking wince-inducing garbage over the whole thing.


Review: Sacred 3 screenshot


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