It's a sad day when even the reviewer for The Escapist is a deadlines consoletard. Most of the complaints are straight from the XBox-port, which seems to quite horrible, and even then it's more "why does this game actually challenge my brain instead of just hand-holding me to end game" instead of proper criticism.
Anyway, there is NOTHING wrong with the gfx. If you say that your PC ran Crysis without problems but now has issues with Risen, you are blatantly lying. Risen runs much, much better than Crysis ever did. The grief over NPC's waving their arms while in discussion is completely overblown one - should we return to Oblivion and it's NPC's with widly changing voices but atleast they did not wave their arms!
Reviewer who never played Two Worlds? Pass, please. What next? Your first RPG was FF7 and Oblivion? Combat IS real time, as the whole game is real time - you better handle your combo's and have a sense of rhytm. Complaining that a real-time game isn't like a turn-based one is utter idiocy, especially since The Escapist did its part for promoting the completly shitty 'gameplay' of FP, realtime 'RPG'-games. You reap what you sow, bitches. Hopefully you shall all drown under the blood and titties of Dragon Age.