Two Worlds (Xbox 360) > Reviews > Two Worlds

Author's product rating:   

Playability & Enjoyment	I did not enjoy playing this game
Addictiveness	Didn't hold my attention at all
Graphics	Weak - I am not impressed
Difficulty & Complexity	Average - suitable for most
Value for money	Limited value

Advantages:	A large world, they had good intentions
Disadvantages:	Where do I begin .  .  .  .  Jerky, jittery gameplay, Complicated menues, sparse world, pointless quests, storyline is appalling

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

Marketed as a rival to the mighty Oblivion, Two Worlds had really set its expectations high. The screenshots looked tasty, the movies looked promising, and my hopes were high.

However just 5 minutes after loading the disc into my Xbox for the 1st time, disappointment started to sink in. Frame rate issues were apparent straight away, with the character jerking around uncontrollably, the game just stops often enough and freezes for over 20 seconds at a time to suddenly catch up with itself.

The spell system of stacking cards is complicated, the inventory menus are complicated and impossible to read most of the time. The game mechanics are way too complicated for such a simple world.

Most of the cities are identical, the world outside them is sparsely populated, sparsely decorated. There is very little interactivity and the quests have no feeling of significance which Oblivion managed perfectly.

A notable feature that was implemented was 8 player online multiplayer.

The actual story line of Two Worlds isn't worth mentioning.Cliched beyond belief, no surprises and doesn't seem to be leading anywhere, the game also claims that your actions strongly influence the ending. Lies. Your actions have very little choice, and the only choice you really get get is one of two outcomes right at the end as a result of clicking one of two options in a conversation.

Now this may sound like a godsend for RPG fanatics, who have been crying out for an online "freeform" rpg which is essentially what Two Worlds is, however, combine the offline stuttering of gameplay with the online awful connections, and dont expect more than a few seconds of actual play. Literally.

Its clear that the developers of Two Worlds had good intentions, and wanted to create a large expansive RPG with multiplayer functions, however it was only a small developer with a very limited budget, and this shows with the average graphics and poor gameplay. Avoid this and I would only recommend it a few months down the line pre-owned, if you really are bored with nothing to do, and it will no doubt be a budget game by then.