With its 'immersive and realistic world' and 'complex life simulation on a scale hardly ever seen before', the Gothic 1 Remake looks even more wonderfully over-ambitious and janky than the original game

Well, if any fears lingered that the Gothic 1 Remake would be a phoned-in retread, they should certainly be banished by the latest footage. This open world RPG looks even more ambitious than the original, boasting an "immersive and realistic world", and making the frankly wild claim that it features "complex life simulation on a scale hardly ever seen before".

As you explore the world—an "immense penal colony" (tee hee), trapped in a huge magical dome—NPCs will play out full routines each day...