It's a good game, 8/10 for me, excellent in some things, like characters and story telling, but it fails too often in open-world part of design, which is more important for me in open-world RPGs.
I can't pit it against other, more linear games, but in open-world RPG genre I would always take Risen 1 or Gothic 3 over W3.
Perhaps it would be fair to say that it's one of the best mainstream open-world RPGs in last 10 years, but I'm still sticking to my belief that it would be much better game if it was more linear affair like Witcher 2 - I'd take Floatsam over any area in W3 any day.







