There is endless stuff to do, quests everywhere, loot everywhere, levels up and powers and BLIND GUARDIAN god I love this game.

That Said, WINDOWS 8 PLAYERS READ THIS.
You need to set compatibility settings. So go to
\Steam\steamapps\common\Sacred 2 Gold\system
Then right click Sacred2.exe and click compatibility.
Select Windows XP Service Pack 3 compatibility settings
Check "Run this program as an administrator"
Apply then restart your computer. Easy Peasy.

Longevity. An incredibly huge map, which would take one hours to come close to uncovering, aswell as being a free roaming game(Thus, you won't be confined to a specific route).
An excellent variation & customisation in armour and weapons.
More than 200 levels for each character to grind, along with skills and attributes that make each and every character Unique.
The difficulty level can be raised to such a standard, if one dies, it means you DIE and will not be able to play the character any more.
Very unofrgiving, Which makes surviving so incredibly sweet.

Overall, 9/10.

There's only one thing I don't like about this, Not being able to see more. A limited viewing range. Somewhat of a half arsed camera. Though, That's just me.

Anyone else should give this a 10/10.

So a friend recommended this game to me while, by chance, he noticed it was 80% off. Never bought a better 5$ game. I am not, or have ever been, a big fan of Diablo style games. I just kind of missed that train. But this game broke my pre-concieved ideas about it in just the first few hours.

The world is pretty rich and just when I thought I was making progress on the map, I discovered I had only uncovered a dot of it. Every level, while comes slower than my personal taste, gives back benefits you can see each time, rather than a ton of levels all the time with hardly anything to show for each one. Another one of the games strong points is customization. Oh man the customization. It's not as intimidating as 'Path of Exile' (a Diablo-style game I tried), though a tad confusing at first. Even with reading up I still had that "trash first character" with my points being in places that were less than helpful. The 'runes' you get to increase your skills are pretty abundant as well, but not always with the ones you need, which can be solved by trading in 1-4 runes of any kind to pick the one you want, increasing your power at a good pace (for a small fee). Combine all that with a rich world, much like Skyrim, open and with entirely too much to do, with so much exploring to do, and you've got a game that will have your style of play, with the story and pacing that you want.

However the game's not perfect. Some annoying things like having to drop items and pick them back up to stack them, certain moves having a hard time targeting an enemy making you dance in place until you find that sweet spot, and not having a very clear chart of where your stats are coming from (though it does list which ones you have, just not if it's on your gear, temporary effect, etc). But if you aren't terribly anal about little bumps in the road, it's a great game to buy.

8.5/10, just a step bellow 9 for the minor issues.

9.9/10 A HUGE world with quirky comedy, killer combat and EPIC quests. Detailed, deep, min/max-ing doable but not necessary. This is "The Skyrim" of Hack 'n Slash games. Champions of Norrath on steroids. FAR better than Diablo 2 and 3 in my opinion. For $20 it is a STEAL. Love it. I took .1 points off for crashing 3 times in 350 hours.

Also I bought a new rig for this game because the GPU requirements were too much for my 2.4Ghz I3/ 9800GT gpu.

I am running a 3.4ghz I-9 and the newish Nvidia GTX 750ti EVGA -OC- SC. All settings CRANKED with an HD resolutions pack and never dips below 60FPS.

Best $1400 I have ever spent, this game is gorgeous when you can use all of the avaiable graphics.

Just buy it and play it and love it.

P.S. Sacred 3 was an insult to ALL gamers and should have NEVER been made !!!

this is a neat game. nice open world , hack and slash. heaps of places and things to see and do. nice easy controls and easy to understand. camera positionings is its only not so great feature in reguards to being able to see infront of yourself with some distance. but other then that its truely a great game

Forget about Sacred 3, All you need is here

community patch

Now this my fellow humans is a fabulous game
the rp in this game is amazing and the game itself is just amazing
i don't think this game outdoes the diablos but my god it is almost just as good
the map is ♥♥♥♥ing huge and i love the combat
the skills you can unlock as you level up but you chose skill you want to add to your skill slots like ranged weapons,armour lore,pole arms, hafted weapons, blacksmith etc
overall i give this game a strong 10/10

EDIT PLEASE READ:
I recently bought a new laptop and when i first downloaded and installed again it worked fine but now when i open it everything says it fails and closes PLEASE HELP
EDIT:
i fixed it i unninstalled my nvidia physx driver and then downloaded the latest physx from the website

Sacred 2 is one big GAME! I'm telling you, if you like big games with tons and i mean tons of quests and exploration then this game is for you :) I spent 90 hours on my ps3 playthrough and only explored 35% of the map. Like, WOW! There are hundrends and i mean hundreds of quests. I'm not sure on the max player level but i got to 127 over the spand of 90 hours. The game might not be as polished as DIablo but i tell you. It is wayyy more fun. As far as the game goes it's 10/10 Don't expect anything serious because the story is crap and quests are not the greatest. But it is an amazing game.

this is a very good but hard game

When I first Opened this game I had no Idea what to expect. I was pleasantly surprised.

It is an amazing rpg with superb graphics. It has a few problems here and there but the community patch fixes most of them.

I was surprised with the sound. I was idling in the town square and I was listening to npc talking to each other, singing e.t.c. like a normal town square.

This is now one of my favourite games despite the occassion crashes.

Best point and click out there with graphics that are still excellent. Character progression and story line make the game. Bummed that the developer went out of business and that multiplayer is no longer supported but Tunggle resolved that for us Sacred II geeks :)

Excellent hack and slash rpg game

I've played this game to death on the Xbox 360, and that may very well repeat on PC. This is one of my favorite RPGs, and with good reason: A HUGE world to explore, tons of different enemies to fight, lots of loot to collect, 7 distinct classes with specialized loot, lots of skills and spells to learn... All of these things make this an RPG that's hard to put down. My only gripe is that you can't pause the game, even when playing offline, and I absolutely hate when games do that.

good and very large game. not so basic hack`n slash (combos). you can get very good looking armor on your charaster but i don`t know how can string bikini`s have good protection against anything. game has also lot of bugs. the quests won`t work and sometimes you have to do them twice or they are not in the right places. if you are not afraid of running big maps sometimes without meaning then buy it. plus sacred number 3 is coming so this is good practise. plus plus blind guardian music video in the game is awesome...

This is the greatest RPG I've ever played !!!

buy it classic fun at it's best and better than diablo 3 ;)

Honesty its not the best Rpg. but its fun if you have nothing better do do :P

Sacred 2 is not just a game you play. Its passion! There is a lot to explore,especially in skills and items you can get.

best of the sacred series, THIS is an amazing top-down diablo clone. it outdoes diablo in terms of depth, open world, length, etc...though maybe not quite as replay-able...