Sacred 2: Fallen Angel (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Windows)

SACRED 2 FALLEN ANGEL takes place 2000 years before the events of the original Sacred game and helps form the back story to that earlier title. Players choose from one of six distinct classes before embarking on the adventure which plays out over a massive game land. With quests dotting the landscape of over 22 square miles, this title will keep people busy for hours upon hours.

Players choose to play with dark or light force. The story deals with a powerful life force called T-Energy, with both light and dark forces wanting to harness the power for their own reasons –- either for controlling the chaos that T-Energy has caused, or to help throw the world deeper into chaos.

When first starting the game, the sheer amount of information presented can be overwhelming, even for experienced gamers. The highly detailed instruction booklet is quite helpful in figuring out some of these details. The meat of the game is an entertaining hack-and-slash title, not unlike the Diablo or Dungeon Siege series, where the emphasis is simply on amassing an astonishing amount of gold and more and more weapons and armor.

While there is a main story thread throughout the title, because of the amount of quests (nearly 600), the narrative gets lost. Nonetheless, the massive amount of enemies to dispatch combined with all the weapons and magic you get to try throughout the game keeps the excitement levels high.