Risen - General information and HW requirements

General information

Translated from worldofrisen.de.

Last update: 15.8.2008

The game will be partitioned like a Gothic 1 (chapters).
The story will be very interesting and with a lot of story turns.
The gods dissapeared from the world and a new might appeared - the player will meet with it.
On the volcanic island are happening strange thinks that are striking horror and uncertainly.
In the game will be one good and one bad end.
There is a group of people, which want to discover all the things - - it's called "The Inquisition".
One of the player's destinations is get at 'Forbidden island'.

The game will be in the fantasy world with typical monsters, magicians, alchemists, blacksmiths, hunters and warriors.
The main part of the world is the volcanic island, the ´Forbidden island´, and there we´ll spend the biggest part of the game.
The world will be smaller than world of Gothic 3 and it will be credible and there will be strong atmosphere and liberty.
There will be more cities in the game - not just one primary city.
The game world won´t be violently bordered - we will understand when we´ll see the game.
The game world is consisted of different nature areas.
There will be day and night in the game world.
Caves and dungeons will be in the game.
Waterfalls will be in the game (And may be better then waterfalls in G3).
Countryside will be very realistic.
Player can move himself on the world without loading screen.
Atmosphere will be dark.
We can find beach, march, mountains and important underground locations in the game.
There will be packs of animals in the game.

Player will be throwed into the game world without specific knowledge (like Gothic 1).
Some areas will be accessible until specific chapter.
There will be bigger stress on puzzles.
There will be shields in the game.
There will be cloakes in the game (visible on player).
Fighting with staffs is planned.
The game will be full of dialogues.
There will be hidden secret doors in the game.
You can fight with 2 weapons in the game.
There will be rune magic in the game.
The style of fight is controlled with level of skill - more skills = more gracious fight.
There will be foodstuff in the game, which can permanently ratchet up some of ability (like apples in Gothic 2).
Skill system will be similar as skill system in Gothic 1/2 - with new level player will get skillpoints and health.
There will be guilds or some kind of faction in the game.
There will be a lot of weapons and spells in the game, some of them will be very special.
Armours will be from the ´one piece´ (like all part of game Gothic).
Player can transform to something else.
There will be arenas in the game.
Player will have needs like hunger, thirst, sleep etc.
Forging will be important.
There will be torchs and camp-fires in the game.
Taking aim will be similar as taking aim in Gothic 3.
Transformations will be concerted with the story and some areas will be hardly accessible without them.

Hero will have one unchangeable visage, no generation of hero.
Hero name isn´t known yet.
Maximal polygons number of armours will be 6000.
There will be more women then in G3.
Creature will have characteristic design.
Dragons, orks, elves and dwarfs are not planned.
Characters of resie Gothic can´t be used - because of legal reasons.
Characters will have better AI and player will have very thrilling dialogues with them.
There will be beasts like worms in the game.

There will be a new graphic engine used in this game, it is licenced, but big part of it is independently developed.
Everything will be modelled by hand again (content of chests too).
Every animation will be newly produced.
There will be used tools Paralaxmapping, Normalmapping and Specularmaps.
There the development are used programs 3D Studio Max, Photoshop and ZBrush.
Technology like Ageia PhysX, Emotion FX and FMod are used too.
For representation of trees is used technology Speedtree.
Engine is programmed in C++.
The game will be able to run on dual-core processors too.

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