Olvasva a mostanában szinte csak negatív "kritikákat" , úgy érzem érdemes picit helyretenni pár dolgot.
Először is a játék nagyon öreg (na jó nem egy Diablo korú de azért ez még bőven a Win XP korszakból való).
Ezt szem előtt tartva meg kell jegyeznem, hogy bár van pár olyan játék ami módosítva lett a mai kor technológiájához, ez erre a játékra csak részben igaz.
Tények:

• A játék Win10-en való futtatásához be kell állítani a Win XP (SP2/SP3) kompatibilitási módot és az adminisztrátori futtatást. Enélkül el sem indul. Aki képes emiatt nyivákolni az nem barátja a Google-nek. Kb fél perc volt.
  
• Célszerű továbbá a Steam-átfedést kikapcsolni. Nem szeretik egymást.
  
• Van benne jópár bug. Ez inkább azért tud irritáló lenni mert ezek egy része már anno is benne volt de emellé még jött pár a megváltozott platformok inkopatibilitásai miatt. Gondolok itt többek között arra, hogy harc közben például megváltozik a zene viszont előfordul, hogy elfelejti "lekapcsolni" az alap háttér zenét. Ez kicsit fülsértő ugyan de ez a legritkább hibák egyike. A folytonos kifagyás viszont teljesen random helyeken képes megtörténni. (ez régen is volt és azóta sincs fix megoldása sajnos) Ilyenkor a kép ott áll meg ahol éppen vagy, de minden más zajlik a háttérben tovább. Én ilyenkor nyomtam egy Windows gombot és egy kijelentkezést, majd vissza és folyt. köv. ... Ez mondjuk sokszor egymás után idegtépő. Szerintem valami grafikai vacakság okozza de nem biztos, mert emlékszem, hogy anno alig futott a gépemen a játék és akkor is tolta ezt (most meg ugye röhögve elmegy rajta). Szóval nevezzük optimalizálatlanságnak.
  Egyébként egy-egy ilyen kifagyásos dolog után érdemes megnézni a beállításokat a grafikai opcióknál mert hajlamos "elfelejteni" őket. Végül is játék a játék előtt :P ... bár én ezt ki tudnám hagyni ha egy mód lenne rá.
  
• Tény továbbá, hogy kora ellenére gyönyörűen néz ki. Jók az effektek, élénkek a színek, a karkterek jól kidolgozottak (az NPC-k mondjuk kicsit darabosak) egyszóval jó ránézni.
  
• A harcrendszer elsőre kicsit furcsa de megszokható és ezután már élvezhető.
  
• A kamerakezelés ... nos itt úgy tűnik nem sikerült eldönteni, hogy ez most egy RTS, egy izometrikus RPG vagy pedig egy TPS, így valahol ezek kombinációjában kb szerintem pont az élvezhetőség határán található a kamera. Viszont az izometrikus-RPG-ből ismert klikkelgetős irányítás nagyon sok helyen borzalmasan beteges így a WASD-t kicsit kényelmesebbnek találtam.
  
• Egy idő után nagyon repetitívvé válik. 26-os szinten már olyan "tudással" és felszereléssel rendelkezik a karakterem, hogy lassan én árulom a "life potion"-t az NPC-knek. Ettől függetlenül vannak küldik amiknél figyelni kell és ezek azok amik újat is hoznak a folytonos hentelésbe. Dehát ez egy hack'n slash vagy mi végül is :D
  
• Történet.... na itt nem fogok tudni semmi okosat írni ugyanis fogalmam sincs. 19 óra játékidő után sem tudom. Egyik külditől a másikig haladok és semmi infót nem szedtem fel közben. Ez lehetne az én szegénységi bizonyítványom, de a játék kicsit sem próbál olyan lenni, hogy ennél jobban érdekeljen a story. Komolyan jobban tetszik az , hogy folyton új felszereléseket aggassak a karakterre, így téve egyre erősebbé és esztétikusabbá :P
  Ezt én annak tudom be, hogy túlságosan "open world" így ezt a részét ügyesen elhanyagolták sajnos. Mert ugye a közelmúltból van pár jó példa is a hasonló jellegű játékokra, story tekintetében. Ez itt még gyerekcipőben járt. Megmerem kockáztatni, hogy az elsők között volt a teljesen nyílt világú játékok listáján.
  
• És akkor az amiben viszont új. A felbontások kezelése. Minden erőfeszítés nélkül kezeli a 21:9-es képarányú felbontást. Alapból abban indult el ha olyan hardvert érzékel. Ez azért nagy szó mert erre nála jóval fiatalabb játékok sem feltétlenül képesek vagy ha igen akkor kb meg kell őket erőszakolni. Nagy piros pont érte ;)

Ezek után ajánlom e? Igen. Egyértelműen igen. Annak akinek volt már vele tapasztalata. Annak akinek nosztalgia. Annak akinek tetszenek a hasonló jellegű játékok de nem vár tőle annyit mint egy Diablo-tól. (vagy egy Torchlight-tól)
15 EUR-ért megéri? A bug-ok nélkül talán. Bár ennyi pénz nem sok, de van pár "game breaking" rovar benne így inkább akciósan.
Ki ne vegye meg? Aki nem barátja a Google-nek. Aki csak hallotta ,hogy jó de soha nem játszott ilyen játékkal (az vegyen inkább Torchlight-ot) . Akinek egy ilyen korú játék már "rusnya", "béna", "sz@rf.o.s." ...stb. Szóval aki túl hisztis az tartsa magát távol tőle.

Sacred 2 is a Diablo-style action RPG set in a truly massive world. Its largest selling point is probably just that – this game is almost excessively huge. Sacred 2 features an incredible world packed with nearly 600 quests and a sprawling map that you’ll be unlikely to have seen even a quarter of in 20 hours. Every building is able to be entered (many with multiple floors), every NPC speaks, and most containers have loot stashed away in them. As typical of the genre, Sacred 2 offers multiple difficulties to unlock for even more replayability.

Looting is another huge draw – practically every enemy will drop loot, all with different stats and colorations. If one enemy doesn’t drop anything, you’ll soon have another 10 or more on screen anyway. Monsters, animals, and humanoids alike creep in every corner, waiting to swarm your character. To cope with this, you’re given a wide range of distinctly different player characters, each with an array of different armor, weaponry, special moves, and unique mounts (although all may buy horses as well).

Combat is fast, though oftentimes mindless, fun. No matter the character, you’re always open to many ways to play, from magic, to ranged, to multiple forms of melee (sword & shield, dual wielding, axes, clubs, etc.). Your mount, whether unique to your class or a horse, also opens up another combat style with its own unique stats and, for some, attacks. Enemies range from normal humans to mythical beasts such as harpies and werewolves, each with variations in stats, attacks, and appearances, guaranteeing you’ll have plenty of new monsters to slay your entire journey.

Sacred 2’s saving grace to the argument of it being “just another clone” is that it’s already fully aware of being a clone filled with various clichés. The game doesn’t take itself seriously; one moment you have men in bunny suits attacking you, another moment you’re fending off mutated sheep who’ve decided you should be food instead. Sacred 2 plays on its light-hearted silliness with quests such as those, jokes galore (cemeteries house plenty in particular), and fourth wall breaking moments – for instance, the Seraphim is fully aware she can’t proceed without the player and will make her grievances known quite vocally if you leave her standing alone for a short while. This both saves it from coming across as a simple clone and gives it plenty of character of its own.

It has its flaws, like all games. The biggest irritant might possibly be its camera, which attempts to be both isometric and standard 3rd person at the same time, often leading to it spiraling around awkwardly. Another point to make is not necessarily a flaw, but could be a massive turn off for some: the bright colors, voice acting, and purposeful ridiculousness of Sacred 2 could easily put off someone looking for a serious RPG, or possibly come across as poor quality before it becomes more apparent the game is using its clichés as a joke.

Overall, I’d happily recommend it to fans of Diablo style games, particularly those who love to explore, as you’ll have a lot to see, and hours and hours of combat-filled gameplay. Sacred 2 is truly an overlooked gem.

ATTENTION:
if you wanna play this game nowadays you must follow a few steps
-first go to your search bar, type compatibility and run the program, click the not listed and click next, manually search Sacred2.exe then try recommended, i think it starts with Windows Vista but I myself got still problems and freezes in this setting i tried Windows XP and still the same, now i run it on Windows 7 comp and it runs fine, just try which one works for you
-next go to nexusmods and download the Community patch, its fixes so many broken things in the game, you cant expect the developer to fix it because they are unfortunately out of business

RECOMMENDED MODIFIERS:
-google sweetfx for Sacred 2, download and install, makes the game looks much better and not so bright and cartoony
-go in SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Sacred 2 Gold/scripts/server here you can find everything that influences gameplay, from damage to drop chance and so on, click on Balance.txt scroll down until you find ZRareExpectation it goes from 1-15 where 15 are the rarest items , here you can modify the drop chance number 1000 is 100% , i recommend slightly increase the drops because Sacred can be very grindy for gear and exp, next go down until you find MP_experience =, this is the exp multiplier for kills, i recommend at least tripple each number, the game is extremely exp grindy its insane, and you can level up to level 200 and later on each level has an insane ammount of exp requirement
-go to nexusmods and download character editor, its very usefull if you wanna respec/reskill your character , the base game doesnt allow that, and its also a useful tool for trying out high level builds

The actual Review:
-the biggest plus for this game is the gameworld, you pretty much cant find any other Arpg that has such an big and really open world, many biomes with very different enemy types suitable for the area
-decent story and a huge amount of side quests
-Classes feel very different and you can make a lot of different builds for each class, i recommend go in sacredwiki.org and look up builds because stats and skills can be confusing and you cant reskill your character in the base game
-at the beginning your character attacks and performs skills slowly, its not comparable with Arpg nowadays , so i recommend the exp boost because on higher levels your cooldown times will be much better
-good humour the game doesnt take itself too serious and the quests, NPCs, and your Char will show it, i like it, some people might not
-mounted combat, each class has its own mount which you can perform all skills and attacks from, wish other Arpgs would have that
-lot of bosses , both optional and the ones you encounter during your campaign

Dont expect PoE or Diablo 3 gameplay, i loved the game ever since i played it back on the X360, if you like Arpgs or Rpgs its definitely worth a shot, it has a bit of a steep learning curve but it can be so fun, Tip: try Seraphim BFG build ;)

OUTSTANDING game. Just one thing.

IMPORTANT
If your useing windows 10...
1.) the first time you run say yes it has permission to make changes this is for the initial install.
2.) select the option to make a desktop shortcut. you will be running the game from this. I don't know why it matters but for some reason it does.
3) after the install exit compleatly from the game make sure useing ctrl+alt+delete task manager.
4.) launch the game from the short cut. it will ask again if it has permission to make changes. From here on out every time it asks click no and the game will run without problems.

Personal opinion: Get this game instead of Sacred 3 if you're looking for an Action RPG!

My first impression playing this game back in 2010 was pretty special. I started a Dryad (hey, they looked hot and I love Druids) and watched the fairly epic cinematic, after which I was placed on a beach with a kind of a mentor beside me. I guess the gods didn't smile upon him on that day though, because somehow I ended up having to tutor myself. First thing I noticed when gaining control was the graphics. One word. Wow. They are incredible, and the attention to detail is pretty much un-parallelled. Leaves being side swept, a little bird making his nest - hundreds of small things that leave you with a warm and fuzzy feeling inside. Even now in 2014, it still looks great.

I still have that Dryad - but I specced her so badly that she is broken beyond repair. I highly recommend using the Sacred 2 Wiki for help with builds. There is no respec option, and if you find yourself wanting to play it all the way to Niob, your spec pretty much needs to be perfect.

The sound is good as well, although the voice acting is bad. Not terribad but bad enough that you treasure the fact that only the main quests have voiced dialogue.

Moving on; most of the classes in the game are innovative and fresh. Whoever saw an ancient Egyptian-inspired Anubis-like robot thingie before as a class? Packing an alien blaster along with his hammer no less. Very fresh, very fun. You diversify a bit by choosing a god and one of two campaigns (good or evil), which adds a good deal of replayability. Rather annoyed by the fact that you can't select gender for the classes though. Some years ago I never touched any female class, for some reason. Thankfully I outgrew it, or I would have missed out on half of this game.

The story is fairly weak, but the focus doesn't really lie there either, as it gives you hundreds of side quests left and right. In fact there are so many, I find myself skipping half of them. Many of them are kind of like MMO quests in a sense. Very generic; a silly story behind it and mediocre rewards. But it works, somehow. In one early side quest though, you are pitted against the game's first boss. This was a pleasant surprise - as once you engage a boss monster, the camera centers on the boss and the game spits out some cool music. He took a serious pounding too, so it was a good moment.

The map is gigantic; as far as I know it has the biggest world in an action RPG, ever. I have still not explored everything after well over 100 hours of play (played it on a disc version most of the time), and there are several optional bosses where you can see how good (or bad) your build is. Bosses can be incredibly punishing, but they are also a lot of fun. Keep your thumb on the spacebar.

The difficulty level when playing Bronze is extremely easy the first 2-3 hours. I considered re-starting several times and selecting Silver instead. But it's gotten more challenging. This really depends on the class and spec you want to play. I have one character in Platinum; a Seraphim, and I still find the class a lot of fun. I have chosen to spec her both with Sword / Shield and Ranged (for BeeEffGee). This'll likely hurt me quite a bit if I reach Niob, but for now it works well. I like being able to change things up now and then.

Multiplayer is dead, unfortunately. Seems Ascaron went and got themselves bankrupt, and was forced to shut down their US servers. EU servers still worked when I started playing it back in 2010, but I believe they are shut down as well.

All in all though, great game. Sort of a diamond in the rough but if you can see past some bugs, crashes and general hiccups, you may find yourself in love with this game, like me. I've played it for about 120 hours; I am on my third version of the game now, and after experiencing just one in-game crash in 14 hours of playing, I can finally, after many years, recommend this game. On the previous versions it probably crashed between 2-300 times in 100 hours of playing.

Since I wrote the review the game has crashed 7 times in 28 hours of play. Still not too bad, considering I've had PhysX enabled all that time.

Ez volt álmaim játéka, azért is mert megálmodtam, hogy megveszem és játszom vele. Másnap meg is vettem, akkor még a magyar nyelvű verziót. Az első Sacred után ez egy még ma is gyönyörű grafikájú játék. Könnyen játszható és irányítható, történet alapú de kalandozható is a világ. Mindenkinek ajánlom aki szereti az ilyen típusú játékot, csodálatos élményt nyújt és még egy koncertet is láthatsz benne.

Szép grafika, sok féle karakter, változatos képességek.

Klasszikus! Nagyon jó!

This is my favorite action role playing game! A huge map to explore with various landscapes and many hidden places. There are 7 different classes with different ways to skill. But the most addictive part for me is the hunt for massive loot... set armors, unique weapons and random roled rare items.
But its highly recommended to install the latest Community Patch. It brings more content and is fixing some of never solved bugs by the bankrupt vendor.
Negative points are tricky camera handling and the very instable source code. Its often crashes because of memory leak.
Multiplayer is only possible with LAN mode. If you want to play online use VPN tools like Tunngle.

If you like ARPG's like Diablo combined with a large open world so go for it!

8.5 of 10 points!

There is endless stuff to do, quests everywhere, loot everywhere, levels up and powers and BLIND GUARDIAN god I love this game.

That Said, WINDOWS 8 PLAYERS READ THIS.
If it won't run you may need to set compatibility settings.

So go to
\Steam\steamapps\common\Sacred 2 Gold\system
Then right click Sacred2.exe and click compatibility.
Select Windows XP Service Pack 3 compatibility settings
Check "Run this program as an administrator"
Apply then restart your computer. Easy Peasy.