Game is just too flawed to be given a higher rating, story is just completely terrible, every single one of them, the main story and sidequests. The the best one is the assasians guild story, which is 05/10 instead of 03/10.

Combat is just boring, magic is too overpowered, and if your caracter isnt specialized on that, you will end up just using whatever enchant weapons and staffs you find to progress.

Extremely overrated, even for the time. Some games just launch and people pretend its good, and its left for the next geration to realise that "oh, this didnt age poorly, its just bad!"