Risen 2: Dark Waters is in development and the first bits of info involving the game has emerged thanks to a user who has a copy of PCGames magazine being kind enough to share it.
Here’s the whole thing, courtesy of GAF:
Story
- You are again the same nameless heroes of Risen
- He is now living in a small harbour village called “Caldera”
- You are now wearing the Ocular of the inquisitor (story relation not known yet)
- The game is now spread about multiple islands
- There is still the inquisition located on one of the islands
- The story is more complex and will have different consequences depending on your choices
- You will meet familiar faces like Carlos, Gregorius Steelbeard
Setting
- Pirate setting
- It’s no longer on Faranga from Risen
- You can travel to different islands by ship (if you can have an own ship is not known yet)
- In the sea lives different sea monsters who attack ships
- It will also have an fast travel system on the islands
- The islands will have different climate zones with different settings and monsters
- Guns,canons and othe fire weapons in the game
- There is still magic
- Skill system same as Risen
- Should feel more realistic than Risen (for example chests who are empty or have rubble in it, but to every chest is a story)
- The world is bigger as in Risen
- Side quests should be more complex than in Risen
Graphic / Technic
- Animation is now motion captured
- NPCs and monsters more detailed
- Bump mapping, realisitc relatime clouds instead of a skybox
- More realisitc faces
- No loading times on the islands and invisible walls only short loading by changing the island
- NPCs talking with each other (for example you can hear a conversation between too NPCs when the treasurer leave his treasure)
- Every NPC has a daily routine like in Risen
- In the night different monsters than on the day like in Risen
Monsters
- There will be Gnomes again
- Minecrawler
- Some familiar and some completly new monsters
- Also normal animals like apes,boars,… depending on the climate zone
Risen 2 is far into development and is around 80% complete. Piranha are doing voice recording for the game right now.
You can check out the first screenshots from the game over here.
Risen 2 is in development for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.