Hmm... that is the same score and award they gave Elemental: War of Magic.
The reviewer here (I reviewed both). Firstly, please don't pay too much attention to scores, as we all find it a little silly to quantify such broad experiences. That said, I do love them about equally, though Elemental probably got a little bump because I knew Stardock would be dedicating a year solely to fleshing out the game. I did really love it as it was, though, imperfections and all. Both Divinity II and Elemental are well-made, captivating games.
In a very pale and uninteresting world of gamming, the games that do manage to "glue us" to the screen are the ones imho that should have the best scores. Divinity 2 was already one of these "diferent games" out there that stick out for numerous of reasons but too many reviewers out there just focussed on its "unpolished" state, thus the bad reviews.
Larian knew this and re-mastered Div2 so only now the realy good reviews should start geting out.
The neoseeker review was clearly made by someone who has a passion for RPGs and knows what he is doing. It was not made by a temporary "intern" that looks at games for 1 hour and fast-forwards it till they see something wrong and discard it, unless ofc the games' budget (and incentive for review) was large enough to warrant its paycheck for a couple days.
For this, i definately moved forward neoseeker up my favorite list. Not because they gave a good review to a game i love, but because they have at least 1 reviewer that shares the passion in good RPGs.
