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Summary: The most popular MOG comes to the Mac
Review: After a few years of the Macintosh gaming community yelling at Verant, now SOE, Sony has finally released EverQuest for the Macintosh. The game is a direct port of EQ, with the exceptions of repaired NPC player models which did not function correctly under the new engine. Mac only servers are being created for the game, so all users will begin on an even playing feild, a refreshing change as compared to most MOGs. Fewer servers will be created inorder to ensure a better play enviroment, and with more than a few years experience under their belts, SOE should be able to create a more realistic world for Mac users. If nothing else, Mac users get the added bonus of receiving every expansion released for EQ at once.
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Summary: Great game, but flawed execution
Review: EverQuest for Macintosh in its current form is somewhat flawed. While the core of the game is intact, there are serious technical problems with sound. Most people I know play with sound completely turned off to prevent bugs from cropping up. Those bugs can range anywhere from severe frame rate problems after playing for a while all the way on up to kernel panics that bring the whole operating system down.The most troubling aspect of all of this is not that the game was released with bugs. Quite frankly that is to be expected to some extent. The troubling part is that these bugs do not seem to be getting any attention from Sony Online Entertainment. If you're willing to play without sound it might be worth it to you, otherwise until they fix the bugs my recommendation would be to avoid this title.
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Summary: how many expansions?
Review: Everquest guarantees hours of addictive entertainment and an extremely loyal fan base, and there is no reason to believe this will be any different for Mac users. The one question I have is that on the Sony website, it states that that Mac version will originally come out with expansions up to the Shadows of Luclin, not Planes of Powers. That is significant, insofar as Planes of Power allows the new player to travel around Norrath much more quickly. I guess we will have to wait on this one...
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Summary: A perfect mix
Review: Everquest is the game that Mac role-playing fans have been waiting for. Think Diablo improved. In Everquest choose from 1 of 14 races and 1 of 15 classes. Travel alone or in groups through new fantasy worlds fufilling multitudes of quests and burying your enemies in Everquest.
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Summary: Excellent Game
Review: I can't wate for this game to come out! I have played it before at my buddies house, and man is it ever addctive. Think of Lord of the Rings only video game style, and you can go anywhere and do anything! ... it says that all expansions up to Planes of Power come with EverQuest mac, but the official site says that EverQuest mac does NOT come with Planes of Power.
Funny....look at the picture of the box. Along the bottom, you see a string of pictures. The one on the far right is part of the cover art for Planes of Power. Maybe there was a typo on the official site where they neglected to write in Planes of Power. Oh well, BUY THIS GAME YOU WILL LOVE IT.
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Summary: Excellent game, but only starting beta (12 March 2003)
Review: I play EQ for the PC, and it is the best game ever made. I recently switched to a Mac, and I don't think EQ will be out for some time. I just singed up for the beta test today (12 March 2003). It's worth the wait though.
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Summary: A Good Port and a Great Price
Review: If you're familiar with Everquest PC, you probably already know almost everything you need to know about this game. You know all about losing sleep, the XP grind, making friends (and enemies), and exploring this huge world. But is it a good port? I'm happy to say it is, and the wait is over for everyone who switched to a Mac but kept a PC around for EQ. If you're willing to start over, ditch your PC and pick up EQ Mac. It runs well, it looks as good as EQ can, and the only problems you're likely to see are spots of lag and the occasional disconnect. This is a really good value, since it includes all of the expansions up to and including Planes of Power (Ykesha is supposed to come out eventually, as well). It's also a great value to play on a fresh, balanced server. You won't see as many twinks as you will on an established PC server, and I've noticed there are slightly less grief players. If you really need EQ in your life and on your Mac, this is a safe bet. If you're a little burnt out on EQ, this fresh start MIGHT renew your interest. Even if it doesn't, you're not out much for what you get, and you're sure to enjoy your free month, at least. Recommended.
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Summary: GREAT
Review: its a great game for windows should be no diffrent for mac buy it. its the greatest
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Summary: The Peaks of Online Gaming
Review: Now, let me just start off this review by telling you that this is my experience of the game. I actually play off and on, believe it or not. I think the addictive quality of this game is somewhat overrated. I think some of that pertains to the fact that levels and skills do take a few hours just to evolve and that to do that, you'll be sitting down for quite awhile. However, it's not something I was just anticipating all day and all jazzed up and anxious to play. It's just an interesting experience, really. Something worth spending the time to level up.
Anyway, to speak of the technical specs, the graphics are fairly good for the time period. The new graphics engine in the Luclin expansion brings things up to somewhere between PSOne and PS2, if that's a fair measure of relativity. The music ranges from orchestrated and inspring(mostly in main PC zones like POK) to goofy and in broken MIDI sequences, depnding on what part of a continent you're on.
Speaking of continents, the game world of Norrath is pretty huge. So far consisting of 5 seperate continents and an entire moon to explore(not to mention below its surface) it takes a while to remember routes and tunnels, considering a mapping system doesn't actually exist(though a coordinate system does). For those types of things however, there are lots of sites that have done the mapping out in illustrations for you.
Character creation and development is very VERY vast. With about a dozen races AND seperate classes to choose from, it's fun and challenging to make a good combination that will get you by in the game enough to level up quickly and gain certain skills. Another interesting quality about this is that not all races can be of a certain class, and vice versa. And it never really feels very restricting even knowing that. Finally, the capacity for skills and spells one can learn and develop is nearly endless. Just as race and class restrictions apply, so do spells and skills. It's hard to find any Warrior that would need the Sneak skill, so everything is pretty self-explanatory.
Interaction is a plus too. You are playing with the Macs of the world, right? And unlike one of the previous reviews where people hardly find anyone else on line, contrarily I find alot of people everyday who want to join my group. But that may just be relative to the PC version. Also, you have an option to make your character a roleplaying character, effectively launching her into made-up storylines and forming relationships with other players. The one problem I've had with this is that for one, if you're roleplaying, you rarely get a chance to get experience unless it's part of your storyline. Two, when it finally comes to fighting and grouping, noone can tell what your class or level is because the roleplaying option only allows others to see your name and guild. On the other hand, you could just do it the easy way and roleplay without selecting the roleplay option in the options menu. The point is, you control how you want to experience the game and roleplaying is a fun, creative way to do just that.
And finally a word about the bugs in the game. I'm surprised so many people cut down their review ratings just because of this. I've found the game to be near flawless in its execution. The only bug I've experience constantly is lag, from using too much memory by utilizing the new Luclin character models for some races. You can modify which new models you want to keep and which you dont by race and gender. The more I used, the more lag I received. But that seems logical, seeing as how I'm running just under the game's system requirements anyhow.
Overall, this game is very well made. There's almost endless variety of things to do and a truly endless variety of ways you can shape your experience while playing. Soloing sucks, but when you get to grouping and socializing, you'll have the most fun and get the most experience. However, I'm not as addicted as other people claim. Personally, I don't find it all that riveting to play it for more than 2 or 3 hours. But then again, that's just me.
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Summary: Come back!
Review: Sony has Started actual darn support on this game. After the Summit meeting Khama has talked to Smedley and they hope to fix all of the bugs as time goes on. With Sound and Planar Access being the most important. However this will take anywhere from weeks to 4 months because they need to hire people who know something of Macs. Some bugs will be fixed quickly though. and A test server will be attached. The game will be Up to date as far as PoP and will actually be a worthwhile game to play. PIck it up. Join the community at EQmac.com and have some fun!
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