If you understand german you can download Gothic The Movie from the Gothic homepage. It's an over 2 hour long flick using the original speakers of the first gothic game. then you can play gothic 2 plus addon which is for free (at least in germany it came with some game mags). and then hit Gothic 3. i would recommand to watch the movie if you havn't played the first game, otherwise you might not understand some of the story elements. and forget playing Gothic 3 with anything less than a X1900. even on that one it gets shakey some times.

Yeah, the erea is loaded as whole pieces which is a big plus over the constant loading from oblivion...but when it's loading you better have a good movie by your side sinse it takes ages.