I havent been able to finish this game cause i got bored. This is solely due to the countless hours i played on fallout 2 right before purchasing arcanum and they are somewhat similar. I find the combat in this game( unless you change the option to turned base instead of real time which would be stupid to do) to lean more towards a diablo type of game. that also goes for armor and other items you can find or buy. As far as interacting with other npcs and taking on quests it is very much like fallout (except for the dialogue style that was used) Moving around the map seems almost impossible and frustrating at first but it doesnt take long to get used to it and once you do its easy to overlook.(with exceptions in some of the larger city's where you will at times get very frustrated) There are also a lot of options when it comes to creating a character. like race(ogre,elf,human) and the style of character you want to use although i found the game to be very biased towards magic. If you don't pick elf as your race and go with being a full out mage then you are just going to have a harder time with any other type of character. This especially goes for melee characters don't even bother with them. I have a lvl 16 mage that could easily kill my lvl 30 something melee character(using harm which is an amazing spell by the way) but i have rambled on much longer then planned so yea that's it.