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Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition doesn't but patch last summer'south role-playing PC hit and port it to consoles. Information technology adds a whole new layer to i of the best RPGs on the market.

Unfortunately, while the new content should be a huge bonus for PC gamers (who, if they bought the original title, volition get this one for free), players won't find the game quite as attainable or as pleasant on consoles.

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Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition releases today for PlayStation 4 (reviewed), Xbox Ane, and PC from programmer Larian Studios and Focus Dwelling house Interactive/Maximum Games for $60.

Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition can take close to 100 hours to play, depending on what y'all choose to do and who you choose to talk with. I'll update this review when I'chiliad satisfied I've seen the extent of the story (again).

What you'll like (so far)

Finally: Visit Rivellon with friends

D:Os begged for a co-op option in the beginning version, and Larian has washed a dandy chore of implementing it here for two players, both on the couch and online.

For starters, you lot'll relish the intelligent split screen for local co-op. Wander too far from your partner and the screen volition automatically split.

You tin can exercise anything you like independently — one person can tackle a fight accompanied by some NPC buddies from your party, and the other can sell things in town, for example. Does your friend need help? Head back and you lot can join the battle in progress, the split screen dissolving when y'all're in range.

Divinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition for PlayStation 4

Above: Co-op gainsay on a single screen.

Image Credit: Larian Studios

The Enhanced Edition'due south multiplayer treatment includes everything near I love about co-op RPGs. Friendly fire from area-of-effect spells. The ability to steal your buddy'southward boodle — both before and (using an ability, unfortunately with their permission) subsequently they option information technology upwardly. The ability to force your friend into combat by luring enemies dorsum to their vicinity.

Ha. Perhaps I take solved the mystery of why some of my friends reject to play co-op with me any more than.

Regardless, when you're non busy griefing your political party, you lot tin work together to accomplish some seriously cool effects. Perhaps your friend makes it pelting on enemies and yous make it freeze, for instance. Or one of yous baits melee mobs into water, and the other stuns them with electricity.

It works the same style for story: I truly enjoyed not having to micromanage the game'south NPCs alone. Having a partner to, say, go steal an object while I distracted the crowd with a terrible, terrible rendition of a dramatic theater play, was truly rewarding.

Players can smoothly driblet in and out of a game in progress, and I found information technology easy to invite friends.

A metropolis full of voices

The original D:Bone provided voice acting for selected dialogue. Here, let me fix that: "quote-unquote acting." The success of the start may have paid for the improver of talent to the second: British actors Alix Wilton Regan and Alec Newman join the voiceover bandage and do a very nice job.

Larian added more than 69,000 lines of voice-acted dialogue to the game. Everyone talks now. Pass through a town and unnamed citizens have voiced responses to every spoken pick you choose, and a practiced number of them talk to you, each other, aloud, or to anyone nearby.

It doesn't only add length and depth to the story; frankly, I'm one of those people who tends to speed-read through conversational options. Information technology likewise contributes to the immersive feel of Rivellon — the concept that all these folks have something to do when they're not talking to yous.

Divinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition for PlayStation 4

Higher up: The metropolis offers a nearly unlimited number of things to break, borrow, or steal.

Image Credit: Larian Studios

A total 360 beautiful degrees of vision

While the Enhanced Edition keeps the isometric view of the original, it besides adds a movable camera. This is priceless not only for the increased ability it gives you to survey the scenery, but also for fixing some of the camera-angle wonkiness that used to brand focusing on some of the game's puzzles truly difficult.

The original's helpful selectively disappearing walls and structures still remain. If you walk backside something based on where the camera is located, the game will fade out that portion of the wall to evidence you your feet.

But having the additional camera freedom is a pleasure.