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Sacred Review
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Manufacturer: Encore Software
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ESRB Rating: Teen
Platform(s): Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP
Release Date: March 26, 2004
Average Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars
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Date: 2008-08-09
SACRED GOLD
Sacred is an RPG of the highest class. Was selected as Game of The Year. It is big and Expansive. There is no correct way to play the game. The main Quest must be done in correct order, aside from that you are free to do wherever you want, Many many side Quests.
Sacred Gold must be installed on your Computer in order to load and play Sacred Underworld, which realyy expands the game.
Date: 2008-06-24
Still fun years later
I got this game soon after it came out and really enjoyed it. Now my kids are into it, and though the graphics look a little dated, it still looks really good and plays well. I played on Bronze level the whole first time through, now I'm trying a different character on Silver and it plays very differently. Each character has their own flavor, fighting style and lots of fun animations and effects.
The only downside is that this game can have some real trouble starting up if there are other apps running in the background. I've found that mouse pointer software, any kind of cpu cycle-sharing program like folding@home, and some full-time virus/malware scanners can really slow the boot-up of the game. Once it's up, it's smooth and runs great.
This is a lot of gaming bang for the buck. It runs well on older computers, has a patch that adds many more square miles of map to explore, has an active modding community even now, and goes beyond just following in Diablo's footsteps. Fun, replayable and interesting, years after its release. I think that's what you call a classic, isn't it?
Date: 2008-02-27
Awesome! BRilliant! GOt it! Love it! Nicely addictive, & inspiring...
Easay to install, pretty gool graphics and sound effects & music. Easy to fall in love with.
Addictive too. I am fairly picky, but this one sure measured up (unlike Divinity, which was a let-down game, that one was). Unlike anything I have played before, much better. Like darkstone, but way, way better. Beautiful. Easy controls, intuitive, FUN (and bits of humor).
The only drawbacks are tiny characters and buildings on map, & i wish it moved a tad faster. I guess a better vid card and/or processor w./ a larger monitor screen would fix that (installed on P3 of 800MHz with ATI9250 Radeon pci 128mb w./ T&L- i think an 03 or 05 Vcard/graphics card- and 512 ram, which is now 1BG Ram, so that should eliminate the ever-so-occasional lagging, mainly B4 combat or during, but easily corrected by zooming in, which is WAYYY cool, like Darkstone by JoWood, and which you can do at any time). The 2nd reason i gave 4stars & not 5 was the intricate, slow building process, only a bit repetitive, of killing the same orc armies over & over, albeit a different vast landscape, in order to gather money coins to (bummer) find your way back to a store to upgrade equuipment.
Character upgrades are mostly automatic, but i think there was some leeeway as to how you tailor abilities, which spells one chooses and which attributes to increase.
Riding on (2x faster than running) and attacking (though slower) , and even charging orcs with a HORSE-- ya, a real live-looking one you can hop off of and on at any time indefinitely. The water and lakes and flowers are rather pretty. Awesome music and battlecries. Devastating (and customizeable attack packages of moves, and othjer powers/ combo attacks: lightening flashing multiople chromatic swooshing arcs of color with sound effects as you swing your blade. You keep saying , "Wow! Neat-o, cool!" Characters do cool jumps, kicks, and somersaults too. The magic is woven in with the attack/ fighting.
You can even pick which of the detailed characters to be. The storyline is coherent and pulls you along; quests are inter-related. The way characters react to you improves as you conquests build your fame. There are even some teleportation arches scattered around. This game is dangerous fun for wasting hours you might never miss. One of the best ever. The only old school thing about it i noticed was the tediousness of the store where you buy equipment and upgrades (a grueling, ongoing experience), and the pop-up chat dialogoes of all the npc's. Note, this is a top-down 2-D view, though you can rotate 360 & zoom (not as much as Homeworld though, another good game but i can't get past ch./lvl 3 or 4 on that one).
This game, however, is winnnable, with tactics of attack, retreat & regenerate, then go back for more-- mainly a time investment & common sense, and being a good shopper, and sometimes you pickup NPCs that tag along and fight with ou/ for you, alongside (automatically, following you). NO need for any walkthrough [Thank Heavens] OR for any cheats! How refreshing, huh? The game offers a lot of freedom. Enjoyable to play. You'll love it. Easy to figure ot. Offers re-spawning where you left off at if killed. Character regenerates health & magic (mana).
Date: 2007-10-03
sacred review
this is a fun game with a lot of cool features (like the option for horses). The gameplay is a little rough at times, and the storyline is barely there, but it makes for a good rpg style hack 'n slash. Multiplayer is definitely rough, with no party options and no clue where anyone else is. Overall good game, and a good start to the Sacred series (no, I haven't played the new one yet).
Date: 2007-07-07
Interesting world ~ Sacred
Not bad game, graphics of the environment you play are quite detailed, although a little bit repetitive. Probably about 1/2 way through the game playing vampiress now. Awkward access to potions when you want to use them on accompanying characters is frustrating and there are some bugs on the version I'm playing (unable to complete some side quests). Otherwise great, particularly that most the world (Ancaria) is open to explore at your leisure, rather than available only after some prerequisite missions have been completed.
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