Risen is now out. It sounds extremely promising and the team is one with a pedigree of good, challening and different from the norm heavyweight RPGs. It's had lots of good reviews in German and is starting to get some in English too. Many are saying it's Gothic 3 as it should have been.

Heh. I opted for the xbox version. Thought I'd play in comfort and on a nice big screen. My order shipped yesterday and should arrive tomorrow. This evening I hear reports that the port is pretty dire - control issues, interface issues, badly dumbed down graphics for no actual reason, framerate issues. It was an outsourced job and the company behind it weren't up to the job. A patch has been announced so it looks like the game goes straight onto the pile until the patch arrives. I was quite looking forward to this as well