Two Worlds Epic Edition

Your sister has been kidnapped, and a mysterious group of people is trying to capture both you and your family relic. They believe you are “the chosen one,” and whether you are or not, you’re going to have to play into their fantasy if you want to have any hope of finding your sister. This is the storyline behind Two World’s Epic Edition.

Two Worlds Epic Edition, available on Steam, is a combination of the original game plus two expansion packs. It’s a vast world where you can spend hours roaming the forests and never once encounter a road—but can still find what you need when you need it.

While there is a storyline, you can also treat this as a sandbox style world, allowing you endless hours of gameplay.

The storyline fails to grab

While finding your kidnapped sister does lend urgency to the situation, the storyline doesn’t do a great job of bringing you into the storyline. While the storyline is there, it doesn’t do much to make you feel emotionally invested in the game. The reality is if you’re going to play it, you should play it for the world building experience, and not if story is an important part of gaming to you. Two Worlds Epic Edition looks and feels like Oblivion, but with more freedom in terms of combat and less story focus.

Horses are hard to ride

One look at the exquisite detail put into the horses on Two worlds, and you know you’re going to be in for a treat—at least until you ride it. The horses are wonderful to look at, but incredibly difficult to ride. They have difficulty navigating even basic terrain, and it’s often more worthwhile just to walk.

Decent combat

The game is mostly button mashing, but that doesn’t mean you can just wack blindly at a monster until it is dead. If you’re doing anything but the easiest setting, you’ll have to make dodging attacks part of your fight or you won’t survive anything.

This makes fighting a lot more interesting, and the relatively freeform way you can build your characters also adds to the interest. The game doesn’t care what weapon you use for the most part, and you can mix magic and melee if that’s what you want.

If you die (which will be frequent) death is relatively painless in the game, with you simply respawning at the nearest shrine point. You can head back for a second try, or third, or how ever many you need.

Beautiful music

In a game that you play for many hours, sound is important. The music for Two Worlds is very well done, and you won’t find yourself becoming hugely bored or annoyed with it as you explore the world.

Pros:

• Beautiful graphics and sound
• Endless hours of gameplay
• Lots of freedom as far as weapons

Cons:

• Story is ho-hum

You Cant Really call it a flawed masterpiece - Two Worlds was a unhappy cluster of bugs that marred an otherwise playable and enjoyable game. Now patched to be a damn sight more fun and a lot more playable, it's been bundled with its two expansions and essentially plays like a single-player MMO. You're part of a generic fantasy world, killing generic fantasy enemies, gaining better gear and completing quests that are tied together with a variety of hilariously awful cutscenes and outstandingly dire dialogue.

Out of this seemingly unspectacular mess steps a rather enjoyable game, once you get a handle for the quirky controls and inventory, with a smooth romp of a levelling curve and at least 10 hours of pleasant hack-and-slashery, along with the ability to combine weapons together to make them stronger - which can be exploited to make you ridiculously powerful. Twenty quid may not be super-budget, but there's plenty of click-and-slay action for those who want it.