THE GUILD 2 RENAISSANCE WAR PC

The scholar route seems to be the easiest to stay afloat, financially. Instead of sitting in a shop or tavern producing goods, youвЂ™re out and about town robbing shops, waylaying shipping carts orВ extorting protection money,В and thatвЂ™s if you donвЂ™t opt to go the pirate or street performer route. Of the four bases classes (patron, craftsman, scholar and rogue) the most dynamic is easily the rogue. It could be you are paying more then you realize by automating your businesses (a common problem), or maybe you need to try making/serving another product. Sometimes it seems youвЂ™ll never turn a profit, but thereвЂ™s almost always an answer for your woes. Making enough money to improve your buildings, buy title, or put your child through school can be an exercise in patience. Textures at times would not load fully,В leaving me with extremely low-resolution textures to look at. Saving games can also crash the game, which is always a crippling flaw. Every one to one and a half hours and the game was bound to crash. It was almost like Old Faithful in a way. I didnвЂ™t find as many crippling or game-changing bugs but the game did crash, allot. When you join a war your avatar disappears from the game map until the war is over, so itвЂ™s not something you want to do when you only have one character. The wars can be very profitable, but you can also die in them so thereвЂ™s a definite risk/reward proposition. So whatвЂ™s changed from The Guild 2? Some new features include maritime jobs like pirates or fishermen, large new maps, quests and jobs that you can undertake from citizens and guild offices, and occasional wars that you can volunteer to fight in. The only decent performance came from the narrator, and his repetitive comments get really old, really quick. Sound-wise the game isnвЂ™t much better, what with its overly posh soundtrack to the lousy voice acting. ItвЂ™s just dry and sterile with nothing visual to remember.

The Guild 2 Renaissance characters move their blocky forms in general approximations of activities. Games like The Sims can do this with a good deal of success, showcasing personality and attention to detail. The character models are rough have stiff вЂmimeвЂ™ animations to represent their different activities. For example, this is at best an average looking game, and yet its performance can be poor at times with stuttering and crippled frame rates.ДЄs I said, this game is not the most visually impressiveВ game, either in quality or stability.

This game just shows signs of poor optimization at every corner. Would a faster computer make a difference? I donвЂ™t think so.

THE GUILD 2 RENAISSANCE WAR PC

It took me over a minute of staring at a static progress bar at about 90% completion just to get to the main menu, and another minute or so waiting to get into the game вЂ“ all this on a PC with a 2.5 GHz dual-core processer and 4 GB DDR2 RAM. The first thing that comes toВ mind is the absurd loading time. That comes into play here because despite the fact that the game can still be fun, Renaissance may be worse off, technically, then The Guild 2. Three years later, IвЂ™m not as easily dissuaded from poking at a gameвЂ™s faults. The game was fun and unique but had some serious technical issues, such as all human characters turning into cows from the waist down. When I reviewed The Guild 2В back in 2007, I talked about playing it in spite of its myriad flaws.

The guild 2 renaissance war