This world, however, is quite new to him… and what’s more, there is a prize on his head.
The hero is, of course, rescued, and now he once again sets out to save the world from dragons and a hidden evil. The collapse of the barrier and the repercussions thereof managed to get the nameless hero trapped by falling rocks – a nice explanation for his drastically reduced attributes and an even nicer explanation for his partial amnesia, which in itself is a fine way to handle the problem many sequels just don’t manage to handle – how to get new players involved in a story they originally never took part in. Gothic II’s story continues where last year’s hit RPG Gothic I left off. Game designer Mike Hoge (Piranha Bytes) took us on a sightseeing tour through the colorful world of Gothic II (see also the new Gothic II screenshots). Yesterday online game press and Gothic fan sites followed JoWooD’s invitation to Dreieich near Frankfurt to see the near-finished prototype of Gothic II live and in action.
