Divinity: Original Sin

Great: Impressive efforts with a few noticeable problems holding it back. Won't astound everyone, but is worth your time and cash....

A polished, intricate and highly enjoyable old fashioned RPG featuring some very modern...

Divinity: Original Sin could be more straightforward and more modern in other aspects and perhaps maintain its allure. After 60 hours of deep, challenging and often confounding role-playing action, I'm willing to forgive its sins, original or otherwise.

Divinity: Original Sin seems to pride itself on embracing these contradictions - complex yet approachable, nostalgic yet modern, cliché-ridden yet strange and singular in so many ways. It captures the feeling of a classic '90s PC RPG but simultaneously turns each assumption about plot, setting and combat mechanics on its head.

Developer: Larian Studios Publisher: Larian Studios Platform: PC I find it strangely annoying that the highest rating I've awarded to a game this year went to South Park: The Stick of Truth. No discredit to Obsidian, they did a fantastic job. But...

Divinity: Original Sin sometimes creaks under the weight of its many features, but all told it stands proud and provides a wonderful blend of roleplaying's past and present. Rich, vast and very silly where it needs to be, this is a triumphant...

Divinity: Original Sin is a detailed and engrossing RPG with great combat and a healthy dose of charm, but the weak central narrative, goofy tone and myriad moments where you don't know what to do or where to go greatly mar the...

To play Divinity: Original Sin is to fall in love with role-playing games all over again. It's tempting to label the game as an immediate classic simply because it recalls the days of Baldur's Gate and Planescape: Torment , a time that many role-players...