Risen 2: Dark Waters (2012)
Risen 2: Dark Waters is a 2012 role-playing (rpg) video game made by Piranha Bytes and Uber Entertainment.
Pirates, voodoo, and a drowning world. Years after the first Risen, raging titans have shattered the land and monstrous creatures now surge from the sea, choking off every trade route and shipping lane. You play a former Inquisition soldier who trades his uniform for a cutlass, falling in with the pirates of the southern isles to hunt the one weapon that can wound a titan. Piranha Bytes swaps the grim medieval keeps of its earlier games for sun-bleached tropical islands, rum-soaked taverns, and gunpowder. Dialogue is coarse, the humor dry, and progress comes from earning a crew's trust rather than grinding levels.
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What is Risen 2: Dark Waters about?
Pirates, voodoo, and a drowning world. Years after the first Risen, raging titans have shattered the land and monstrous creatures now surge from the sea, choking off every trade route and shipping lane. You play a former Inquisition soldier who trades his uniform for a cutlass, falling in with the pirates of the southern isles to hunt the one weapon that can wound a titan. Piranha Bytes swaps the grim medieval keeps of its earlier games for sun-bleached tropical islands, rum-soaked taverns, and gunpowder. Dialogue is coarse, the humor dry, and progress comes from earning a crew's trust rather than grinding levels.
When was Risen 2: Dark Waters released?
Risen 2: Dark Waters was released on 24 April 2012.
Who made Risen 2: Dark Waters?
Risen 2: Dark Waters was made by Piranha Bytes, Uber Entertainment and Deep Silver.
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A few thoughts on Risen 2: Dark Waters
Fans of its swaggering pirate fantasy should watch Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl for the same cursed-treasure grit and gallows humor. Black Sails brings the muck, mutiny, and menace of a pirate world with none of the romance. If you want to actually sail and plunder, Sea of Thieves turns the whole fantasy into an open ocean.
Pirate crews you earn trust with through blood and rum
Risen 2 trades the Inquisition's uniform for a cutlass, dropping a disgraced soldier among pirates who judge him by what he does, not who he was. Pirates of the Caribbean and Black Sails share that same rum-soaked crew loyalty, while Red Dead Redemption 2 and Grand Theft Auto V follow outsiders who claw their way into a gang's trust one job at a time.
Battles against monsters too massive for one hero alone
Risen 2's plot turns on hunting a weapon strong enough to wound a titan rising from the sea. God of War puts you toe to toe with gods and giants on the same scale, The Witcher 3 sends you after monsters that dwarf any single sword, and Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon both build entire seasons around beasts large enough to reshape a kingdom.
Epic fantasy quests through a world remade by disaster
Titans have shattered the land in Risen 2, forcing survivors to adapt to a world that barely resembles the one before. Wizard and Glass and Oathbringer follow heroes navigating kingdoms scarred by old catastrophes, Brisingr and Redwall send their casts through lands reshaped by long wars, and Avatar: The Last Airbender rebuilds its world after an elemental war of its own.