Sacred 3 is an upcoming action role-playing game

Action role-playing game

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. It will be the third full game in the Sacred video game series. Deep Silver, which acquired the license to Sacred 3 from former development studio Ascaron Entertainment, announced at Gamescom

Gamescom

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 that it would be publishing the game in 2011-2012. Shortly following the Gamescom

Gamescom

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 announcement, Deep Silver called for fan feedback on desired features for Sacred 3 in its official community forums.