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ArcaniA: Gothic 4 Demo out on PC, Xbox 360

by Alice O'Connor, Sep 24, 2010 7:34am PDT

Related Topics – ArcaniA: Gothic 4, X-Com: Apocalypse, xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC

Fans of the fantasy RPG series Gothic eager to see how ArcaniA: Gothic 4 turned out, given that it's the first entry in the series developed by Spellbound Entertainment rather than creator Piranha Bytes, can now find out with the PC and Xbox 360 demo.

The 1.71GB PC demo is available from your friendly neighbourhood FileShack while the 872MB Xbox 360 demo is, naturally, over on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace.

The demo "comprises the first two hours of the game and shows the beginning tutorial level on Feshyr Island featuring selected quests," says publisher DreamCatcher.

ArcaniA: Gothic 4 is slated for release on PC and Xbox 360 in North America come October 12. The PlayStation 3 edition has been delayed into the first half of 2011.

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No glaring bugs, but rough all around. Combat goes down the wrong path of the Gothic 3, and takes it even further down the abyss. AI is now nonexistent, stealing from houses go unpunished rather than alerting the npc. The dialogues are laughable. VO is barely tolerable (one voice fails utterly to convince at pretending to be old). The graphics are similar to the 3D Divine Divinity, which is to say the feeling of uncanny unrealism is strong.

Fans of Gothic 1 and 2 are not gonna like this one. The nuances are pretty much all gone, the attention to details, gone. It feels less nuanced than the fixed up Gothic 3.

Sep 24, 2010 6:19pm PDT

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No glaring bugs, but rough all around. Combat goes down the wrong path of the Gothic 3, and takes it eve... : Xulu
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  in G3 if you attacked 1 ai then the whole world would come running in from everywhere, is it still the sa... : TheRiz
  - Not the whole world, just anyone who hears you. You can stealth kill when nobody's around. : Xulu

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Had a lot of fun, much better than two worlds which I also enjoyed. Another one for the preorder list. Hopefully it's not a short game though

Sep 25, 2010 3:31am PDT

Had a lot of fun, much better than two worlds which I also enjoyed. Another one for the preorder list. Ho... : kurumba

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Had a fantastic bug with this demo; something went awry with the animation meshes, and every time a character spoke their face jumped around, inverted and generally freaked the hell out. Even with the settings on Low detail there are graphics glitches everywhere, like shadows from the trees that stay on the screen after you turn away from the tree... Gothic 3 bugginess redux. Combat is better, but it was so awful in 3 that this just brings it back to baseline rather than to something interesting.

Sep 24, 2010 7:43am PDT

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Had a fantastic bug with this demo; something went awry with the animation meshes, and every time a chara... : pingfreud
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Pretty fun demo. My favorite part about Gothic was the exploration, and that's something they've seemed to focus on.

Some things are a little wonky here and there but for the most part I think this is something I'll enjoy.

Sep 24, 2010 2:04pm PDT

Pretty fun demo. My favorite part about Gothic was the exploration, and that's something they've seemed t... : happynoodle

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Huge fan of all the past Gothic games (and Risen also)...

...not sure about this game after looking at the demo. I've never had problems with motion sickness, but something about how this games works makes me a bit queasy. Also, I have a pretty nice rig and get a lot of lag even on medium settings. Controls seem a bit wacky also. I was fighting 2 goblins, and the lag between my clicking "roll" and my actual rolling was noticable.

It would be a shame if technical issues make this the first Gothic game that I don't buy... will wait for reviews now, whereas was a preorder for me.

Sep 24, 2010 1:54pm PDT

Huge fan of all the past Gothic games (and Risen also)... ...not sure about this game after looking at... : diamondspider

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Hurray for demos. I'll be trying this out just because they went through the trouble to offer it to me.

Sep 24, 2010 1:43pm PDT

Hurray for demos. I'll be trying this out just because they went through the trouble to offer it to me. : dookiebot

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I bought both Gothic 2 and 3 and couldn't get either of them to work on my pc. I look forward to not buying Gothic 4 to avoid that problem!

Sep 24, 2010 9:23am PDT

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I bought both Gothic 2 and 3 and couldn't get either of them to work on my pc. I look forward to not buyi... : xfoo
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- Gothic 4 works silly. : rjklevels
- Don't bother with G3. But get G2 working, your life depends on it. : Xulu

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The textures and lighting look pretty awesome. Is this the Unreal Engine?

Sep 24, 2010 8:25am PDT

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The textures and lighting look pretty awesome. Is this the Unreal Engine? : Jobos
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- Nope its not. Its called Trinigy. : Josef

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i haven't liked any foreign RPG yet. Hopefully this will change my mind.

Sep 24, 2010 9:31am PDT

i haven't liked any foreign RPG yet. Hopefully this will change my mind. : gyokuro

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Really great to see this on the front page, this RPG definitely deserves the recognition.

Juts awesome RPG, insane graphics and has the gameplay I love, feels great.

I can not wait for the full version in Oct 12.

I would advise people to try the demo for them selfs and see how awesome it is.

Sep 24, 2010 8:10am PDT

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