GameZone writes: "Like so many others, Drakensang has your character leveling up and gaining new abilities as you complete missions and carry out your overall investigation. You find all sorts of characters to join your party but only three will join you when combat erupts. You know the general outline of how this game is going to go if you have ever played an RPG before. No, Drakensang does not reinvent the wheel, but what it does do, it does very well".
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At first glance, Drakensang: The Dark Eye looks like The Witcher, or perhaps Neverwinter Nights 2. It draws its complex plot, art design and deep rule system from a Witcher-y European RPG playbook. You create a character from the ground up, gathering 4-character party to level as you please (along with a slightly clunky interface for controlling said party) as in NWN 2. While both of these comparisons are valid, Drakensang sets its own standard, moving in a different direction from its predecessors-but it's not exactly cutting edge either.
Eurogamer writes: "There's an annoyance I have to deal with when playing Drakensang. The annoyance is that whenever I get down to a deep, involving tactical session of balancing my team's abilities, wondering whether some on-the-fly-XP tweaking is required to beat back this oppressive wall of undead, my girlfriend sticks her head around the office door and asks me if I'm still playing Shrek."
