My rig:
Windows XP SP2 Home
Pentium D 820 2.80GHz
3GB DDR2 RAM
Radeon x1600 pro 512MB OC'd
228GB SATA HDD 7200RPM
I play on mostly medium settings all around, but no AA. So don't say I'm not getting a good feel of the visuals. They rule. But the game isn't that fun. I played through the opening act, went through one of the most confusing and overhyped character creation systems of ALL TIME, and then fought my way through the pitch black (Not my monitor.) dungeon and yada yada and finally reached land. Beautiful? Yes. Thats it. The world is freaking empty. Having played Stalker, I'm used to people going to and fro, mutants and animals running on un-scripted pathes, etc. But this was terrible. There was nothing within sight for miles. So I went to the nearest town where it was the usual bunch of douchebags scripted to walk around, some ambient dialogue, etc. Then it pushes you head first into the story you /must/ follow and then I saved and stopped. So far not so good. No excitement, no real customibility (Mages and thieves still seem useless--So do all premade classes. Custom is the way to go. It always is.), Races go from good to bad with no balancing going on, and it just seems like a mess. Light armor is (Still) stronger than heavy and more useful, there seems to be WAY less weapons (No spears/halberds or staff weapons, not maybe daggers and not many war hammers or axes.) The facial customizing was OK at best, but it was not what was told to me over and over. It was actually really confusing, and no facial hair (Wanted to make Snake Plissken) for the loose.