First Risen english review

Some reviews on the games performance.

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Risen: Screenshots, technical details and performance evaluation
Piranha Bytes sent us a preview version of the RPG Risen. PC Games Hardware took some screenshots and offers an estimation of the performance.
Risen: First impressions (11)

Risen: First impressions (11) [Source: view picture gallery]
In Risen, the new role-playing game of the Gothic makers Piranha Bytes, you once again play a nameless hero - this time you are shipwrecked. On the Island of Faranga you can side with either the Inquisition or the rebels.

Risen: Engine details
Risen is realized with a new DirectX 9 engine that has been programmed almost completely from scratch and bears a lot of resemblance to the Genome Engine of Gothic 3. Render techniques like enhanced Depth of Field, Screen Space Ambient Occlusion, Cascade Shadow Mapping plus Soft Shadows as well as FP16 HDR Rendering including adaptive tone Mapping and new water shaders bring the graphics to a level noticeably higher than Gothic. The HDR is one of the reasons why Risen does not officially support Anti Aliasing.

A single Thread, or ideally a single CPU core, is responsible for the newly developed Seamless World Streaming System and therefore the framerate in Risen is only lowered a little if the system is streaming and the game doesn't lag as much as Gothic 3 did. According to the Windows task manager Risen uses two or three cores most of the time, sometimes even four. Some of that workload is caused by Nvidia's Physx Engine since Risen uses the CPU calculated version and not GPU Physx.

Risen: Performance evaluation of the preview version
For our test system with a Core 2 Extreme C2E QX6850 (4x 3.0 GHz) with 4 GiByte DDE2-1066 RAM and a Geforce GTX 285/1G Risen wasn't a big challenge even though our preview version has not been optimized yet: With maximal details, 16:1 High Quality Anisotropic Filtering at a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels, Risen was running almost completely at 25 to 30 fps. When the system was streaming, the framerate temporarily dropped below 20 fps in some cases, while the game was running at more than 50 frames per second when we were inside a dungeon. Lowering the resolution didn't result in a real performance benefit, but if the processor was running at 2.0 GHz instead of 3.0 GHz the framerate was lowered noticeably - so apparently Risen is just as CPU limited as Gothic, although the game will most likely be optimized before the final release.

Risen is scheduled for release on October 2, 2009 and will be published for PC and Xbox 360.
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Will let you all know on Friday how it runs. I have 3 games I have to pick from BT on friday. Risen,Batman arkham asylum pc and sacred 2 expansion.
 
I started replaying Gothic 3 on my new system a while back. On a computer that could actually handle the game, I thought the game was fantastic. Ran awesome, all the patches and user patches ensured that I had allmost NO bugs playing it couple of years after release.

Then I got DSL.........
 
Seems game is very good:

Risen - Review Flood #1
by Gorath, 02:08

Piranha Bytes' RPG Risen, this time for their new publisher Deep Silver, will be released in most countries on PC and XBox 360 later this week. Only the XBox version in NA has been delayed to Q1/10. Naturally, reviews are popping up everywhere. The following articles are in German, with one notable exception.

* Let's start with the print mags. GameStar uploaded a site-seeing tour split into 4 videos. Their review, not online yet, rewards Risen with 87%. "Risen is no unofficial Gothic 4. Risen is the return of Gothic 2. [...] The best Gothic so far [...]"
* PC Games says something similar: "[...] the title is exactly what Gothic fans expect." - 86%
* 360Live gives the console version an 8.3/10. Their 2nd opinion 7.8/10. They praise the captivating gameplay but criticise the outdated graphics and the small font size.
* According to GamePro Risen deserves 80%. "A fine RPG with lots of details, but also with a few quirks blurring the fun."
* GamesAktuell thinks "Risen has become a very good RPG [...], only suffering from minor weaknesses." - 9/10
* And now online press. DemoNews offers positive first impressions without a rating.
* Gameswelt likes Risen. "At the end of the day Risen does a lot [of things] right and few wrong." They like the usual Gothic formula and criticise a thin story, a couple of logic holes and minor technical glitches like sporadic clipping errors, incorrect camera position and frame rate drops in the city. - 82%
* Xboxdynasty gets the credit for the first roasting of the XBox 360 conversion. They say the game has some interesting points, but the visuals don't reach current gen niveau, which impacts the fun. "[The] graphics clearly kill the atmosphere and the mood of the game." - 6.1/10
* And finally an English article. World of Risen published a translation of their detailed Risen review. Clever as they are, the fan site left out the rating part. The piece is relatively spoiler-free and very informative. Especially the page about the technical stuff.

First retail copies have surfaced in Benelux, Russia and the US.

On a sidenote, we've made a couple of changes to our forums. We've opened forums for Risen, Dragon Age: Origins, Drakensang: The River of Time and the indie game Tactica: Maiden of Faith. If you feel like chatting about the listed games, you know where to find fresh forums in need of traffic. ;)
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BTW xbox dynasty review is just unbelievable seems that reviewer is a graphics whore.

Hopefully BT has the game early on friday and they remember to send an sms not like with batman.
 
Isengard said:
Stefan I look forward to hearing your thoughts on the game. Hurry hurry! :D
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Should have my copy tomorrow seeing as taketwo are shipping their's means bt should have it as well just haven't released their's yet. Will have to wait for my comments thought won't have much time to play this weekend.
 
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