Worth neither fish nor fowl, but a glance

After about eight hours of play, it is time for an initial review:
For all Steam enemy advance in the retail version of Steam is not necessary. The game you have to activate only once at start, then you can play it offline.
Now for the game: I have my pre-game months ago, had great expectations that were not met, more on that later. Let's start with the story:
Man plays Orc and a Goblin, what's with RPGs rather the exception, you could say good is evil and evil is good. Man plays the elite warriors of the orkschen resistance, the goal: kill the human emperor and ensure the continuation of the orkschen race. The story is also one of the strengths of the game, however, you only comes up to full speed. The first two hours I found relatively boring, which is not necessarily talking about the game. But who stays on the ball will be rewarded with a good story (this still developing quite well), the dialogue is, as in Game of Thrones, again the absolute strength of the game, but the call options have significantly less impact on the world, or what is happening , which is a shame. The setting of the dialogues I find it very successful in the German version. The dialogues are, however, be a bit long-winded, which does not bother me, one or the other but likely to get bored. Unlike Game of Thrones, the graphics are really succeeded this time. The characters are detailed, the environment consistent. However, the levels are again only "tubes" open world nil, nil exploration, loot chests, with a few exceptions, none. The character development and the talent tree can be best described as puny, at all is again not a RPG but more an action adventure. The fights are too sober for an action adventure. The combat system reminiscent of Dragon Age, you can pause with spacebar and set commands / special attacks. Reminiscent of Dragon Age does not mean that it reaches the quality, so it does not namely. I definitely recommend the hard difficulty, to normal the fights are completely undemanding. As in Game of Thrones, the camera work in the fighting is not optimal, a little confusing, but you get used to it. The sound is very good, the background music and drama has succeeded. For those who now think why he gives three stars when he criticizes everything? I give three stars because I was still entertained the game, the story is good, plus it is sometimes interesting the story from the perspective of a green skin to experience the dialogues are also very good. Most liked have my main characters you play, especially the Goblin Styx, who always has a stupid slogan in stock. I subtract a star for lack of RPG elements, since it was sold as an RPG, I would have also liked a reasonable talent tree and a reasonable character development. Each half a star I pull from for the combat system and the linear to the world.
Features:
+ Atmospheric, nice graphics
+ Good story
+ Interesting setting
+ Great Heldenduo
+ Very good dialogue, unfortunately, with little impact on the story and game world
+ Good voice and sound, also convince the German spokesman
- Only minimalist RPG elements
- Hose levels, invisible barriers
- Boring, little challenging combat system

Conclusion: No bad buy, but the expectations were not met. Whether you want charged 40 EUR for each must decide for themselves. If you like a good story, and always wanted to play an Orc and / or Goblin, may risk a purchase, for the other: rather wait until it is cheaper.