9.8??? Really??

How is this game rated so highly?

I've been playing it now for a couple of weeks and while it is a good game, has some great sound and visuals and a good story with plenty to do, I just can't get over how horrible the controls are. Did the game makers even play this game before releasing it?

Garaults controls are shocking, he's slow, lumbering seems to be constantly glitched so that to even pick up or loot an object you have to twist and fidget him into position all the time. The battle stance he takes everytime an enemy is near is so bad that you can't choose to run away or turn around, you are instead forced to do battle and if it's something several levels higher than you it's pretty much a death sentence

The horse, geez what on earth is this supposed to be? It can't run through a few twigs or bushes, it can't climb anything over a few inches tall, it can't go downhill, it can't jump a fence without stopping dead first, it can't swim, it changes direction almost at will and you have to keep thumbing it back in the direction you want to go. It's dreadful.

I thought after playing it for a while I'd eventually get used to the controls but no, I'm still finding myself getting angry and shouting at the TV because he fails to perform even the most simplistic of tasks without having to faff around with the joypad or the horse just keeps stopping or running into bits of scenery and getting stuck.

This could have been an awesome game, even better than The Elder scrolls but the stiff, clunky and at times unresponsive controls just kill it. Why in this day and age do game companies still struggle to make open world RPG's with simplistic and fluid controls? It's such a shame as everything else about this game is awesome. It's feels like a modern day game with 1990's quality controls. It's a great game ruined by it. :-(

"Hasta la vista, baby."