Have to agree 2 was crap, I bought it on impulse the cover was so shiny and looked ok, I lasted about 30 minutes of playing it.......so its in the cupboard now
I finished Risen 2 but was left without the desire to play it through a second time. But, in all honesty, Risen 2 is certainly worth more than just 30 minutes of anyone's time.
Both games were quite poor. The second game did pretty much everything the first game did poorly as well. I have no faith in them the third time round. I do however think they will charge rediculous prices for their mediocrity again and people who like mediocre games will buy it.
There's no point in remaking them, they still look good.
Maybe I'm crazy but I prefer the look of early-mid 2000's pc-games running at high resolutions over the blurry,shiny shimmering messes a lot of modern 3d games tend to be.