Risen 3 review: Menial labor drags down this pirate adventure

August 12, 2014

Many times I've sat here, reviewing video games, and lamented the downfall of the "B-Game." See, when I was growing up, there was no such thing as "Indie" yet. Games were either big-budget AAA affairs or, more often than not, B-games.B-games were a bit cheaper, a bit smaller—but also, by that same token, you occasionally got a B-game that took massive risks because hey, the consequences for failure were smaller.On the other hand, playing Risen 3: The Titan Lords has reminded me of the other type of B-game—the ones where you thought to yourself, "Hey, I feel like I've played this game before...only better." It's not bad in any traditional sense. It's not broken, it's not particularly buggy, it's not offensive. In fact, it's perfectly inoffensive—the game equivalent of a bag of chips, consumed for no reason other than it's around and you're hungry.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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