Walking into other people's homes, level grinding and looting the enemies' corpses, is typical RPG gaming, although Albion's dialogues could be a bit better. Personally, I could immerse myself to the story, but maybe being 14 years old when I played it helped a lot with this.
Hell, each people had its own language! It seemed very original to me back then.
Part of the game background required the player to read through entire pages of dialogue partially unrelated to the game's plot. That's right, ENTIRE PAGES. FULL OF TEXT. That's why I couldn't fully grasp the story either.
Only thing I understood, was that Albion's Celts were REAL Celts from OUR Earth, that somehow (through magic maybe) managed to travel to Albion. That, and the fact that the Iskai were the real indigenous inhabitants of Albion.