Two Worlds II finally gets UK date

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 8 December, 2010

Has sold over a million units in Europe.

Fantasy role-playing game Two Worlds II will be released in the UK and US on 25th January next year, TopWare Interactive has announced.

The game has already sold over one million units in Europe after just three weeks on sale.

SouthPeak Games was set to publish the game in the UK and Ireland, but TopWare has now taken control and will publish on these shores instead.

"The rights were not purchased back by TopWare, as was previously reported," TopWare said.

"Both TopWare and SouthPeak want our game to get the attention it deserves," TopWare's managing director James Seaman said.

"South Peak wants to give the North American market 100 per cent of its attention, and we're happy we were able to take some of the weight off their shoulders. Two Worlds II really is a labour of love, and after seeing how far the game has come, the fans are going to be blown away in January!"

Meanwhile, TopWare announced plans to open a UK office within the next six months.

Two Worlds II has suffered a difficult time in the UK.

In October SouthPeak pushed the game's release back to after Christmas because, "November is an exceptionally busy period at retail."

Eurogamer challenged the Two Worlds II date in mid-September. The game had been promised for autumn but shops offered only contrasting dates. When pressed, few admitted to knowing what was going on.

The confusion has detracted from Polish developer Reality Pump's promising role-playing adventure.

Christian Donlan found Two Worlds II "surprisingly good" when he galloped through the world earlier this year.

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Comments (19) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • glottis0 #1 1 year ago

    Has an English language version been released anywhere else? Would be nice to get hold of it earlier if I can import.

  • RoaringPanda #2 1 year ago

    Had a cheeky go on it last night actually, better than the first one by many, many miles. Still a bit hammy, but much better presented.
    And yeah it's in English
    Edited by RoaringPanda at 08/12/10 @ 09:58

  • JayG #3 1 year ago

    The Royal edition is english, u can get it from Amazon.de. I gave up on the game after countless crashes, even after the last patch. It's fun but no where near as good as the reviews in europe would have u believe.

  • rivuzu #4 1 year ago

    Why hasn't Eurogamer then reviewed the European release? Especially if it is playable in english - not that that'd stop them. Havn't we seen Japanese Import reviews here in the past? Oo-er EG...

  • glottis0 #5 1 year ago

    Cheers for the info :) Might try amazon.de...

  • unacomn #6 1 year ago

    Dag nabbit, the game won't run on my rig. I really wanted to see the spellcasting system since it's a lot like one I designed a few years ago but never got a chance to use it.

  • Raznilof #7 1 year ago

    I'd be very interested how this holds up on the xbox as I find these games quite enjoyable but the conversion often struggles.

    Anyone here tried it?

  • RoaringPanda #8 1 year ago

    @rivuzu
    Eurogamer.de have reviewed it, gave it a 9/10 if i recall. And the crashes suck ass. I think i'd give it a solid 5/10 myself

  • mkreku #9 1 year ago

    It has only crashed for me once so far (about 20-30 hours in). Right now I'd give it 8/10 or so. Very good, but with some flaws.

  • rivuzu #10 1 year ago

    Shame I can't read German then, isn't it? Might as well be a seperate site...

  • RoaringPanda #11 1 year ago

    google translate, gives you the gist of what he said.

  • alimokrane #12 1 year ago

    I demand a review! What happened to reviewing less popular/niche titles? or are we now cashing in on only the big releases now, EG?

    I have heard some good stuff about Two Worlds 2 actually. I will give it a shot.
    Edited by alimokrane at 08/12/10 @ 11:16

  • Eldritch #13 1 year ago

    With the writing on Eurogamer.de as it is, you might as well skip to the verdict. They still have a very long way to go, I'm afraid.

  • rivuzu #14 1 year ago

    And once I get past all of the untranslatables and trying to decipher the grammatical anomalies, how much of reading that review will I walk away with knowing I enjoyed reading it, instead of walking away with a blistering headache?

    No thank you. I speak English, am English, and for a written english site called Eurogamer who have previously written reviews on foreign games, would like to see them pick this up and give us the full brief. I like Eurogamers reviews. Their staff are brilliant writers. How they let this slip as an oversight though, I don't know.

  • Pastici #15 1 year ago

    @rivuzu

    Well its not been released in the UK yet, I expect a review in the new year closer to the release date

  • rivuzu #16 1 year ago

    @Pastici

    Sorry, did you come to http://www.ukgamer.net?
    I didn't think so. To further push my point, here's a <a href="http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/yakuza-3-review">review of a Japanese import done on Eurogamer.

  • Paul_cz #17 1 year ago

    Czech Eurogamer gave 8/10 and said that it is 9/10 game if patches fix few remaining issues.
    They were extremely positive about the game overall, calling it greatest RPG surprise of the year.

  • FortysixterUK #18 1 year ago

    I've been playing this for a while, on and off ( because of wow), ordered from germany ( like I did with Two Worlds 1 )
    The graphics engine is excellent, the voice acting very competent, the story standard but fun rpg fayre, and of course, it's in english( voice and text).
    Combat is more involving that TW, but is still very simple, but it is dynamic, in that the moves, countermoves, evades and rolls are under your command.
    Clocked up 22 hours of gameplay, no crashes. Yet.
    This is the PC version I'm playing by the way, not Xbox, will get Xbox version when it hits the UK.
    My personal score ? With Demon Souls on PS3 being the almost perfect 10 RPG, this lands a very comfortable and competent
    ( i.e. worth a full price purchase) 7/10.

  • 1simen1 #19 1 year ago

    Bougth it in Oslo Norway a week ago. (english version PC,i saw the XBOX 360 version in store aswell)

    Been playing for about 20 hours and the game is very good.

    Beautiful graphichs, no slowdown or dips in framerate. All settings maxed and running beautifully on my fairly high end PC.

    So far no glitches, no bugs and no problems, just nice RPG gameing:-)
    Thing of it as a better looking Oblivion with a world that doesn't level up with you. (I hated that)

    This game is looking very promising, considering that i have only seen a small porsion of what it has to offer.
    You can probably play this one for well over 100 hours, probably alot more fore some.

    Not to be missed this one:-)
    Edited by 1simen1 at 22/12/10 @ 18:35