Playable but not always. The combat is very stiff and the animations limited. The story is cliched and calling it fantasy is a stretch because it's just Europe with magic, so not very immersive. It's almost like they just read up, what an RPG is and did that. The map works just like older games do you go to a corner of it and transport to another map, it's not a continuous world. The missions are at worst fast travel simulators and at best boring. The main storyline is like any story about colonization ever written by a sympathetic colonizer, as in colonization isn't so bad and neither are the natives let's all be friends! Then there's various mechanics which at worst without them you have to painfully the the mission another way (science) and at best useless (lockpicking), the other mechanic which is how much each faction likes you is impossible to actually control since I played the game two different ways and ended up with almost the same results which by the way, don't matter. So no matter how you play, everything ends in the same way.