[Neb]

Adventure game from German developers that is a fast-pased adventure game. Link to official site has links to reviews where it scored quite high. The graphic is also quite nice (after patch 1.02 which uppgrades graphics). Be sure to check it out!

Set in the fantastic world of long ago Venice, the young Scarlett falls victim to a terrible mystery, which begins with the murder of her companion by a secretive alliance of mighty necromancers. Thus fate takes its inevitable course and threatens to throw the world out of order.

Scarlett finds out that she is the daughter of death incarnate and is blessed with his ultimate powers. She is the only one who can stop the gruesome powers that threaten to destroy the entire living world.

Now it’s your chance to reverse fate! Get ready for a fast-paced adventure set in an epic world filled with dark dangers and merciless adversaries. Arm yourself with mighty weapons, rally together powerful allies and master the dark powers of death. Can you conquer the powers that threaten to inescapably destroy the world of the living? Follow your path down into the deepest abyss to death itself – and back again, if you are worthy!

*Experience a visually stunning action RPG with a unique and captivating atmosphere.

*Follow the hero journey of Scarlett through a rich and original story.

*Conquer a host of merciless nightmarish creatures that pounce on the threatened world in a raged frenzy in action-packed battles and ultimately confront their masters.

*Explore palaces, villas and numerous dark alleyways in a living dynamic Venice filled with merchants, rogues, allies and traitors.

*Learn how to use the powers of the “Twilight World” and wander between the worlds of the living and the dead. Put the ultimate powers of death to your advantage in battle.

*Use the advantages of the “Twilight World” and the ultimate powers of death.

*Experience an open game world with dynamic night and day cycles.

*Clear, easy to pick up rule system and intuitive game-play.

*Experience a dynamic and open game world in which you can freely develop your own character and decide on different game strategies yourself.

http://www.venetica-game.com/pages/en2.php


Patch 1.02 brings considerable graphical improvements for the game.


Link to info about patch 1.02, comparision screens and video.
http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,7...-102/Download/

[Lidve]

Very nice! German games are often underrated, but very good!
Where can i buy it?

[Davros]

You cant yet

[bigtabs]

It seems unusual to me to include such major graphical overhaul a patch. Are there any other examples of this? And why would they do it so soon after release? Surely reviewers would be looking at the original code.

[Malo]

Originally Posted by bigtabs

It seems unusual to me to include such major graphical overhaul a patch. Are there any other examples of this? And why would they do it so soon after release? Surely reviewers would be looking at the original code.

It might have been released to German audience already and only just now being done in english? Has happened a few times from German developers.

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

Originally Posted by Malo

It might have been released to German audience already and only just now being done in english? Has happened a few times from German developers.

Yes, we saw something similar from the likes of Egosoft with the X series. A German release comes first, and then several months later when the localisation is done, the US/English version arrives with a later patch level out of the box that includes bug fixes, game/graphics improvements.

[eastmen]

whats it using ? dx 10 vs dx 9 or something ?

[Davros]

looks to me like they added hdr

[L233]

Venetica is a reasonably fun Action-RPG. It's a completely linear, story-driven game, kinda like Witcher or KotOR. The combat system is simple but fun (more so than in The Witcher or Risen), it involves a lot of doging attacks und there is a selection of useful spells . The boss fights can be hard at first because it's not always obvious how to defeat them but once you get the idea, they become easy.

Graphics range from very pretty to ugly (thanks to some sloppy textures in some places), but all in all it's visually appealing and the setting hasn't been done to death. There seems to be no mipmapping for ground textures, so be prepared for lots of texture flickering. The animations are extremly well done. I've played the game pre-1.02-patch and performance kinda sucked when forcing AA in the drivers, especially when considering that the graphics aren't too impressive. Not sure if the patch fixed the performance issues but the upgraded graphics seem to look nice, judging from the video.

Venetica is 20-25 hours of light-weight Action-RPG fun. I enjoyed it quite a bit, but it's certainly not a must-have title and it has no replay value whatsoever. I had more fun playing this than I had playing Risen (but the two games aren't really comparable).

[L233]

Originally Posted by bigtabs

It seems unusual to me to include such major graphical overhaul a patch. Are there any other examples of this? And why would they do it so soon after release?

It was released about 5 months ago in Germany.

[Mobius1aic]

Germany is more or less the Western haven of PC gaming.

[I.S.T.]

http://news.bigdownload.com/2010/11/...ary-via-atari/

This makes me very happy. A German friend of mine completed this game much earlier in the year, and loved just about every minute of it.

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

Venetica is a really nice action-rpg. It's a little slow until you get out of the first village, but the visuals are very lush. It's a lot of fun, and has some terrific story telling, though it does seem a little rushed towards the end.