Great RPG - miserable porting

I have now completely played Risen now once as a bandit and half as a magician. As a fan of Gothic 1 and 2 games, I felt immediately at home, of course. Risen contains nothing that would not have existed in Gothic. Yet this was no different planned by Piranha Bytes. The developers have concentrated Animal T on your strengths and create in Risen through the power of the spoken dialogues credible island world. The key facts to the game are both here at Amazon, and in the meantime many magazines and Internet portals.

Therefore, I would like to leave out content little about game content. Let's say that Piranha Bytes has with Risen without much risk taking exactly create what many had expected. An unofficial gothic successor. And so Risen plays. Who is a fan of open worlds, to set to music with good crisp dialogue and a skill system with fairly good room, good hands in Risen and will also be well entertained. The protagonist has neither a name nor the end of the game particularly extravagant, that's normal at Piranha Bytes. True to the motto "The journey is the reward" you should also play as Risen.

Why do I only one forgive in spite of well-deserved 4-5 star, located 360 port as several other customers at the XBOX. Of course I do not know in detail how the developers had this really bad porting in mind. However, it is clear that Piranha Bytes their games so far programmed exclusively for the PC and interpreted. The developers could therefore probably not at the driving force in the XBOX 360 version be why Wizarbox were entrusted with its label flits at every game start on the screen and I could slay. The Piranhas unfortunately the worm is somehow there. Only it comes with Gothic 3 and the dispute with the publisher in the headlines, and now a solid PC RPG is botched detours to Wizarbox team.

Well, I must say, some points are not really so dramatic that it would not be playable. But I admit even I play Risen so that I always sleep until noon if possible let the protagonist to realize sufficient. The numerous graphical flaws I need not repeat. You definitely disturbing. If you compare the PC version compared to you're really scared how bad was working here at the port. Looking at a location on both releases a screenshot of a missing as XBOX 360 Konsolero simple words how much potential was squandered.

But why? Was the work of the developers so poorly documented that although Wizarbox was the best, but what we see is the maximum? Or Wizarbox was simply incapable? Or served Wizarbox only as chaperon and showed the designers of the shoulder, how to port a PC game like Risen to a console like the Xbox 360? Just right: this is totally irrelevant to the customer that the XBOX 360 version and have to have of screens from the PC version Previews fooled. Even the DLC videos about Risen on Xbox 360 Marketplace have been in places as far drilled and spruced up the example, the camera pans over the territories of Risen nothing in common with the level of detail of the retail version. I am now accustomed pimped screenshots and render videos, but who then gets presented to the screen Risen ... Should anyone tell you did not warn you.