I have been playing Sacred 2: Fallen Angel for about 3 weeks now and I’m still just scratching the surface of it. So far I’ve completed the main story quests for one of the seven character classes and have done the first third of the main quest line for a second character. My main character is the Shadow Warrior class who specializes in physical damage using pole arms.  I’ve got about 35 hours in that character and when I completed the main story I had explored just over 30% of the games world.  So, that gives you a little idea of the size of the game.  There are over 500 side quests in this incredibly deep role playing game. The sheer complexity of Sacred 2 makes it quite difficult at first.  However, after around 5 or 6 hours everything started to click and the way the character’s skills, equipment, runes, combat arts and attributes all tie in together.  Sacred 2 supports 4 player co-op matches so if you are just getting into it try to find a couple experience players to play with who can help you get started.  You’ll get more experience that way and they, hopefully, can keep you from completely messing up your character before you know what you are doing.

Once you get a hang for Sacred 2 is it incredibly deep and offers literally hundreds of ways to customize your character.  The main story line takes a lot of seemingly random twists that are fun to explore. The side quests are quite varied and many are hilarious.  Most of the side quests do not have voice over but if you take the time read them you’ll be rewarded with some stories. Graphically the game looks good for being a year old.  The camera takes some getting use and I wish it would zoom out a little more at times, but overall it is not too bad.  It helps that you can control it if you want to let the game control it if you prefer.The achievements are going to take a lot of time to complete.  There are a good set for completing main story quest line pieces but the rest of them take a lot of time to explore. I have 35+ hours in the game so far with 27 of 48 achievements, and I was trying to get as many as possible with my first playthrough.

The game is not perfect, but I can overlook the faults for the most part.  The co-op gets laggy at times which is lame since there are only 4 players in the match at most.  There are no load times as you explore the giant world, but even playing solo you’ll have time where the game slows down as it loads. Especially if you are in one of the 42 cities in the game.  The  loading off all the building will grind for a few seconds even if you have it installed to the hard drive. Also, there are times when the side quests will glitch on you.  Especially collection ones.  You’ll get 19 of 20 items and then the map icon for the quest will disappear because the 20th one does not exists.  This has happened to me three or four times now, which out of 500 I guess is not terrible, but it is annoying.

If you like fantasy role playing games I would definitely recommend giving Sacred 2 a try.  You can find it pretty cheap at this point since it is a year old. Once you get a hang for the complexities of the game it is a lot of fun. Plus, it is a mammoth game that you can play solo or cooperatively. I expect I’ll be playing Sacred 2 off and of for many month to come and still discovering new and fun stuff to do.