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Sacred 3
If you've been going to the same Italian restaurant for years and enjoy eating funghi there, you're bound to be surprised when at some point they say: 'Sorry, we don't have funghi any more. We no longer have pizza in general, nobody wants to eat it anyway. But we can offer you a really great salad! And the salad turns out to be not so great.
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Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
To understand my fascination with this game, you have to go back in time: For me, there was no internet, no oversupply of games. My only way of getting information from the world of video games was through video game magazines such as GameStar - we even had a subscription. Of course, the best way to play games together was via couch co-op or LAN parties. So any game that you could play together was a highlight.
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Yager
Yager ist eines dieser Spiele, dessen Vollversion irgendwann 'mal als Beilage zu einer Computerspielzeitschrift dazugetan wurde und das man einzig aus dem Grund gespielt hat, weil man ja sonst nichts hatte. Vielleicht auch wegen der schönen Screenshots. Ändert nichts daran, dass ich von dem Spiel ungefähr noch so viel im Gedächtnis habe wie vom Physikunterricht, wobei mein diesbezügliches Wissen zuletzt durch unser verstopftes Klo auf eine harte Probe gestellt worden ist. Irgendwas mit vielen Explosionen und die Deutschen waren die Bösen – also im Spiel, nicht bei meinem Klo … obwohl … Ich schweife ab. Wie in Aquanox- oder der Comanche-Reihe durchfliegen wir arcadige Balleraction, wobei gerade Aquanox 2 noch…
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Sacred
Sacred dates back to 2004 and is therefore officially old - which doesn't bode well for me, as I was born in 1992. But unlike many other games from that time, even back then Sacred had already looked out of date and the years really haven't done the German Diablo clone any good visually. Ironically, I would still prefer to play the progenitor again today instead of the successors, of which the third game in particular should only have a few fans. However, if you want good hack-and-slay, you're better off with other series and probably even better with the genre primus Diablo.