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Beyond Divinity

Beyond Divinity

List Price: $19.99
Your Price: $17.99
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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Beyond Boring
Review: If you're looking for a challenging, well-executed RPG that you can really be immersed in, this game is not for you. If your idea of an RPG is an easy romp through the park with glorious treasures and piles of gold laying everywhere, you should love Divine Divinity.

The graphics are modest, not bad but no flash. Characters are far too small to warrant the ability to alter hairstyle and body type which is provided in the game.

Storyline is a yawner, the voice acting is very amateur, and with the ludicrously over-treasured and boringly simple Battlegrounds it's a lot like playing Nintendo with a cheat code.

Youngsters in the 11 to 14 year age bracket will love this game, anyone who's played and enjoys rigorous RPG such as Everquest will find this a snoozer in my opinion.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Worst Voice Acting Ever
Review: The PC RPG elements of this game are pretty solid, but you just can't immerse yourself in the experience when your partner delivers all his dialogue (even the urgent ones) with all the conviction of a retired adult film star. It may seem like a small thing to complain about, but that just means that you have not played the game or don't understand how to truly experience a RPG.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Beyond Divinity? Sign me up!
Review: This game is made by Larian Studios, the people who made the smashing good hit Divine Divinity.

This is a action/Rpg but it has a few twists... (such as being able to do tactical mode instead of Hardcore, or Action)

The graphics are the same nice 2d crisp graphics, but with characters and npc's in 3d and a few other updates.

You can scroll closer and farter to get a good looka t many of the badies trying to kill you as you get rid of your Soul-forgin with a Deathknight.

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If you liked Divine Divinity, or are a RPG fan I heartily recommend this, or if you just like having fun!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Beyond Divinity Divinity
Review: This game is such a refreshing change from the dry and listless RPGs that have been released of late. Humor abounds, and once again, I am loving the Divinity universe. New with this game is the ability to play after finishing the main game - one can visit the Battlefields for new quests indefinately. It is so wonderful to be able to interact with most everything in the game and to hear the comments of the Death Knight, imps or skeletons - that know you're the not always so bright hero. Professionally done voiceovers make it decidely better than the demo, and kudos to the Larian team for listening to their fans.
The background music is again composed by the most talented Kirill Pokrovsky, and it is a delight. This game can be played by a newcomer on the easy level, or on the most difficult setting by the most adept, with two settings in between. Don't miss this one!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: could've been better
Review: This game's interface was really annoying.
I hated having to keep both party members alive at all times.
The voice acting could've been better.
Reminded me too much of Diablo.
The graphics were mediocre at best.
You can't adjust the difficulty once you've started the game, and this game is HARD!
If Taco Bell is still open go there instead of playing this game.
This could've been a good game if they would've designed it better.
I gave it two stars because I have played worse.
My grandpa died while I was playing this game.
He liked football.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: could've been better
Review: This game's interface was really annoying.
I hated having to keep both party members alive at all times.
The voice acting could've been better.
Reminded me too much of Diablo.
The graphics were mediocre at best.
You can't adjust the difficulty once you've started the game, and this game is HARD!
If Taco Bell is still open go there instead of playing this game.
This could've been a good game if they would've designed it better.
I gave it two stars because I have played worse.
My grandpa died while I was playing this game.
He liked football.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Newsflash
Review: This is for those people who complained about the voiceovers in the demo. Apparently, you haven't been to Larian Studio's website recently. Several days ago, they posted that they hired completely new voice-actors and re-recorded all the dialogue, so stop complaining. Bring on the game Larian Studios!!!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Boy, that WAS fun!
Review: Well, I finally took the plunge and purchased Beyond Divinity at its outrageous $50 DSRP price tag, and fortunately, I was able to return the game to the store and receive a full refund. The store owner commented that all of his customers that purchased Beyond Divinity were returning their purchases as well. Why?

Starforce Purchase Prevention! Larian's ingenious solution to the problem of legitimate customers.

After doing some research, I found that Starforce, especially the latest version, causes many problems on NT/2000/XP systems including but not limited to constantly random reboots. These problems have pushed indie programmers to develop software that removes Starforce from a system completely. What's neat is that the removal software is called Starforce Cleaner, which enforces the view of the people in the disc storage and duplication industry that Starforce is like a computer virus.

While many active Larian forum members have not suffered the same issues, many Larian customers have, and like many of them, I've sworn never to buy any product that assumes I'm a criminal. Unfortunately, I'll never be able to play Beyond Divinity unless Larian wises up and removes (or replaces) the Starforce Purchase Prevention scheme. I thought the game looked like a lot of fun from its screenshots. Oh well...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Waiting impatiently
Review: With having played Larian Studios Divine Divinity and the demo of Beyond Divinity, which is not the final version, I find myself waiting impatiently waiting for the game to be released.

It is set in the Divinity Universe and has alot of new features such as, Battlefields, new skills and a no class restriction. You are able to make a character with both sword and magic abilities.

The voice of the Deathknight has been redone due to the facy that Larian Studios listens to it fans. The Divinity forum is by far the best forum for a game out there. Some of the forum members can even be found in the game.

The music was once again done by Krill and will be without a dout very well done.

I expect much more in the line of great games to come from this Belgium based team.

I suggest that you spend some money on this game as you will not be disappointed.


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