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Summary: Very Very Good
Review: I have played and heard form people that play role playing games. A big plus about this game is that it has a very wide spread terrian and you can PICK if you want to kill or not to. In other games I play people can kill you just if they feel like it and it gets very very annyoing. Another thing about this game is the charecters. You can pick and be whatever you want to be, and they even have some choices for you. One thing bad about it is that some people are a little out of charecter. Like, they talk about things that obtain to the real world. Other then that, that is the only problum. It is one of the best online games I ever played.
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Summary: Limited playability
Review: Sure, this game has got stuff to strut, but the on thing that made me bring it down to that one measily star is that fact that you never own the game. you have to pay to play, which is a factor that certainly draws my attention. When i buy a game, i like to play it online through the company's server that is FREE (how the heck do you think Blizzard does so well??!!). This is in my mind, a typical scam, and ill have no part in it.
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Summary: Better Than Ever Camp Play Solo and Build a Kingdom :)
Review: Asheron's Call will allow you to play solo and even build up a kingdom of vassles who will give you some of their exps. This game has it all. Skill based game play. With no upper limites highest player in game on 09-07-00 was level 100. You might be the first to reach level 200 who knows? If you grow tired of the game you can sell your account on Ebay :) for some RL cash. Be carfull what skills you take when you start out though, plain well read to links sites www.gamezone.com to get some good hints about planning your path to fame and honnor. Or seek out the best ways to walk in the Shadows. With Asheron's Call you wont have to wait at a no exp camp site to get the Grate Armor or Items the games uses a random item generator to deal out loot so you will never know what you will find when you make that final slash or cast a deadly spell to finnish off the last monster.
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Summary: Dereth - A Land of Opportunity
Review: Now, having adventured in both Norrath (EverQuest) and Britannia (Ultima Online), I found Dereth (AC) to be my favorite of the three lands. Firstly, as others have mentioned, the land mass is extremely expansive. Plenty of dungeons, monster 'spawn points', towns and wilderness to share with others, or, if you're more the solo type, to claim for yourself. The experience system, which consists of 'spending' experience points to raise various statistics and skill ratings allows for complete character customization. If starting a character from scratch sounds a tad difficult, the game also has several starting character 'templates', which have preset skills and statistics so that you can leap into the fray immediately. The spell system has a little bit of a tough learning curve, but those who quickly grasp it will be greatly rewarded. The good points of this game are too great to mention, and there are very few downsides (the main one being the graphics not being up to the beautiful standards set by EverQuest). If you are looking to get into the MMORPG scene, this is most likely the game for you.
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Summary: Good Game
Review: A good game which would be perfect with the addition of music(no music). A must buy game!
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Summary: Fantastic, Absolutly Amazing
Review: Hmmm.. This game is positively the greatest thing since the invention of fast food . The Graphics are well textured even though they are not as smooth as the graphics in EQ. The game itself has a very deep storyline and the world is HUGE, it can take up to 3 hours to go from one side of the world to the other. Another added bonus is that there are no Annoying "zones" like in EQ. The Spell Economy is great. There are over 1600 spells to learn and the more people that use a spell the less powerful it is. ( You might be thinking to yourself right now " If this guy likes the game so much why is he writing a review on Amazon.com instead of playing it" well the answer is right now the server is down for maintenance so i can't log on. )to get on with the review, contrary to a lot of reviews this game is not 100% hack and slash (though somtimes it can seem like that) it is in fact a delicately balanced ordeal. The Alligence pyramid is very deep, here is an example; say you swear alligience to another charachter and he in turn has sworn to another person it goes on and on . Another Thing that is cool is that in Darktide (the Player-Killer only world) there are massive groups of people that will somtime have wars with each other. There is so much more to say about this game but i am fast approaching the 1000 word limit . If you are looking for me on dereth I am on the Soclaim Server in the chat menu you can type @tell Herith t'wain, and then type your message. See you in Dereth
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Summary: Pointless Microsoft clone of EQ
Review: Okay, here it is in a nutshell. The graphics bite, and bite HARD. The spell component system is so difficult that playing hack and slash by default is much more preferable. And there is little if any help by the GMs. My two cents. Buy at your own risk.
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Summary: Great game hampered by technical problems
Review: AC is addictive and a blast to play, but the constant server outages, technical problems and bugs that are introduced with each update, and the lag really hampers my enthusiasm. You would think with all the years the game has been in development, and the beta testing process, they would've been able to sort the problems out. I wish Turbine and MS would concentrate on fixing the problems with the game instead of new content every month.
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Summary: Technical loser
Review: Yes, Asheron's Call is the best of all on-line RPGs, but that's like saying I'd rather have my toes chopped off than lose a leg. You never get a chance to love the great features in this game because of all the snafus. Servers constantly go up and down, even with good DSL service it became hard to hold a connection, be prepared to reconfigure your computer to get the thing to work, and most of all LAGS, LAGS, LAGS!!!!!! In the towns you can walk two steps, lag for 5 secs, walk 2 more, wait another 5 secs, etc. It all gets to be particularly irritating when these glitches appear during combat. Whoops, you're dead! Whoops, where am I? Maybe in 5 years the technology will have advanced to the point that all of this will work. But for now online RPGs are simply an exercise in frustration.
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Summary: The Game is Great, But.....
Review: Well I have to say that if you are considering a an online RPG then AC is one of the better ones, if not the best. However there is one very important factor which has forced myself and quite a few other to leave the game. The problem was not with the game itself, it is as addictive as they come, but instead lay with the technical side of the game. The first big problem was with the game server downtime, AC goes down regualarly for 3 hours each day. This time is, as you would guess, during the off-peak hours of the day; which is great if you live in the US. However for international players, guess again! This was not the problem which caused me to cancel my membership however, it was after I switched from a telephone connection to a cable TV connection that I became locked out of the server. I spent a good four weeks trying to get any kind of technical support from AC and Microsoft, my search for help included 4 chat rooms and over 20 letters sent to 2 support email addresses. I never once met a systems operator who didn't reffer me elsewhere, nor did I ever get a single reply to the e-mails I sent. The bottom line is Microsoft won't be able to help you if you have problems, they will send you to a seperate AC support center. The AC support center exsists but will unfortunately ignore you. So if you have worries about system compatibility or a non-telephone internet connection , especially through a cable TV line, it might be safer to go with Everquest or Ultima. I would have liked to be able to have words with the support team about this, but alas could not find one.
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