Arcanum : Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura Review

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(More customer reviews)I couldn't in good conscience give this game 5 stars like the other reviewers. One thing to note as I kick this review off. This game does work with Windows 7 on my computer...with only a few hitches. There is a minor graphical glitch with the cursor that is easy to ignore for the most part. What wasn't easy to ignore was right toward the end of the game when I hit level 50 (the max level in the game) The game would crash every time. I had to go back to one of my older save games and replay a portion of the game and purposely avoid gaining experience.
With that out of the way I'm gonna do this old school pro and con review here to try to avoid being too long winded.
Pros
-Story is fairly interesting involving technology being introduced into a magical world
-Interacting with the NPC's is great, one of my favorite parts of the game, the dialogue trees are great and often humorous
-Lots of sidequests that flesh out the gameworld
Cons
-"real time" combat option is useless as it happens so fast you don't have time to do anything
-Graphics are bland, even for a game 10 years old
-You have to read a strategy guide if you want to make the most out of the game, there are a lot of nuances that you WILL miss if you just play through on your own
I noted the sidequests as a pro, but you need to be careful with them as there are enough that you could go a while ignoring the main story and forget what is going on.
You can be good or evil in this game (theres even an evil alternate ending), it actually reminds me a bit of Oblivion in the variety of gameplay, often the quests are varied and fun.
Being how old this game is there are modern games that do all this same stuff with more production value (Oblivion) But if you like lively NPC's to chat with and great humorous dialogue trees this is certainly one way to go.

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