Gothic 3 Gone Gold Again

Gothic 3 is the latest installment of the highly regarded fantasy role playing game franchise brought to us by German developer JoWood. Hype is at ever-strong levels since the game is one of the few computer RPGs still clinging to the roots of the genre and not moving on to greener MMO pastures. Not two weeks ago, JoWood announced Gothic 3 has gone gold, being ready for mass production at Sony Austria's facilities. As it turns out, it must have been an alchemy screw-up, since gold soon turned to lead when company officials actually took back their words: "Gothic 3 is not gold anymore".

Little did we know about game glitches that presumably passed testing and other impending doom gameplay menaces. Rumors about delays were first to surface, along with speculation regarding the current state of the game, further increasing angst in the community.

Disturbing news indeed, yet things appear to be back on track now. Yesterday, JoWood Productions, Deep Silver and Piranha Bytes announced the launch day, Gothic 3 version has been optimized until the last second. The deed is done; Gothic 3 has gone gold again and is ready for production. Despite this partial drawback, the game will meet its previously stipulated October 13th release date.

Here are the confirmed system requirements:

Minimum: * Windows 2000/XP/XP64 * 1024MB RAM * Intel Pentium 4 / AMD CPU 2GHz or equivalent * Direct3D compatible graphics card with at least 128MB and Shader Model 1.4

Other: * 4.6GB available fixed-disk storage * DirectX 9.0c (included) * DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card * DVD-Drive