Lots of monsters hmm? With the super slow attack rate of my characters I'll be death if there is more than 3 enemies attacking me at one time. Even in earlier part of the Gladiator game I nearly died when the Gladiator master and his cronnies gang up on me.

Anyway, I manage to fix the sound/music. It seems I'm unable to play the game with the patch. it keeps on saying missing DLL files. heh! so I'll have to play the game unpatched then.

I bought it at the same time as a few others - all of us to replace diablo for a multiplayer game. Got bored really quickly (less than a month) and also found it way too easy. It didn't do it for me at all and it could have been so good.

Gah! problems problems problems. This game is buggier than Lionheart. I decided to quit this game as it has too many problems. what a waste of money!

I found Sacred to be an enjoyable playing experience. True, the game is somewhat (although not for me) buggy. But the latest patch (1.77?)just came out in late September and I think most of the bugs have been taken out. The developers were pretty good at addressing the bug problems early on.

But Sacred had some pretty decent play mechanics that I feel really added to the action RPG genre. Like the map compass that points to your quest. I also liked how the journal worked in this game. And Sacred is the first game that I can recall that not only can you fight from horseback but you also have special spells that only work from horseback. I played the game early this year and now that the new patch is out I think I will give the game another spin.