A great but flawed game. The game starts very slow and combat feels a bit underwhelming, but if you stick out the first few hours, the game just climbs in fun factor and epicness. By the time you get a musket, you are in heaven, blasting monsters in a hail of black gunpowder smoke.

Overall, I liked this game, and half way through, loved it. It is one of those games that grows on you.

Very fun involved game. The combat is tedious but realistic. Each monster has a different way of defeating him other than just mashing the attack button but until you unlock more abilities, they are very hard, almost too hard. Lots of interesting things to do but they don't hold you hand in figuring it out, most of the time you are on your own.

Its fun, whoever liked the first part or the Gothic series will enjoy this game.
Undeniable it has some edges, e.g parts of the combat system or the overall character animations but thats probably because of a low budget, but beneath that lies a really good RPG with nice graphics and a nice realization of the pirate scenario.

Whereas the mainstory is kinda boring, there is like a bad god and you spend the game preparing to kill that god. I don't want to spoil too much but the ending is pretty obvious after a while, so not really interesting.
Same goes for all of the characters, while some of them are at least good written, they are boring as hell and simple chliches, so everyone who is in search for a game with deep lore and interesting characters won't be satisfied with this game.

The fighting system is actually kind of fun, at least against human enemies, against enemies its much more simple but less fair. One tip: don't use the musket, that makes the game even easier than it already is. Either way, after about 20 hours you should play the game on hard.
I does have an interesting skill system, well actually its a simple one. You get XP for every kill/quest which you can spend on one of 5 traits, like Swordfighting, Voodoo, or toughness.
The money you gain you either spend in improving your skills at special trainers or in gear.

The graphics are sometimes gorgeous, not only the graphics but also the design, even after 30 hours of gameplay the jungles or beaches you visit won't get boring at any time. The worst part of the game lies here though: the character animations, those are so unbelievable bad you should probably laugh at them rather then hating them.

And for everyone with a fairly good computer, you should check out the mod "AntiWarp", it removes that weird warping of the plants, it's really easy to install as well.

Risen 2 is a game which was unfairly dismissed by many. There are many reasons to account for this. One of the principal factors is the fact that it was released soon after the genre defining title, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Many people had preconstructed expectancies going into Risen 2, such as an open world format with huge worlds and places to explore. Risen is none of that. It is a fairly linear RPG. This is by no means a bad thing. There were times, believe it or not, where RPGs were completely story driven and linear, the likes of Final Fantasy 7. Many have forgotten this, or are too young, or too casual to have played a real RPG in their life times, and have only experienced Skyrim. But here is the truth. Skyrim has no balance whatsoever due to its open world nature, and the story is garbage. Risen II is better in both of these categories, though not perfect. If I can be critical on one point it is that the game has an inverted difficulty curb. The game starts quite hard for the first 10 hours, then is completely easy. It's very unusual to say the least. Overall though, it is a solid game, deserving more attention.

Great adventure game, I really enjoyed it. Open world pirate game reminded me of Monkey Island mixed with Skyrim. Combat is rock hard, so I recommend you play it on Easy, as for me Easy = medium.