Anarchy Online

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Summary: This game is not a game.
Review: This game truly blows. It blew when it was in beta, it blew when it was released and it blows now. You can do better than this. Buy anything else, or better yet, invest your money in the depleted stock market. Even if you lost your money in the market, you'd do better than to give it to Funcom. You can always play solitaire. It is far more enjoyable. There is a reason this game has dropped more than half of it's retail price in the three months it has been out.

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Summary: A Great SF game.
Review: This Game is a very good multiplayer online game. It gives you a lot of fun, and as soon as the storyline starts, you can be a part of the story, and also help deciding what it will be like in the future.
You can choose what side you want to play in this planetary conflict, or you can choose to stay neutral.

I find the game a lot of fun, it has some problems, but the produsers have done a good job since release, and most of the issues are now fixed.

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Summary: Going Downhill, Fast.
Review: The first time i enterd AO it was the usual "oooh aaaah" that any new game gives you, but especially MMORPGs. After a few lvls you start to feel the game, the whole game as of now is do "random" machine generated missions where the missions are in a different area but they all have the same dungeon layout and they all have the same objective, just kill baddies and get the the pick up item, do this a few hundred times then you will understand how boring this is.
AO WAS also very unstable, it does make you crash now and then (in my experience) but it is pretty stable after many patches. Each patch seems to add new bugs and new exploits for the already lvl 160+ exploiters to take ahold of and get even more ahead of the average lvl 50ish players.
The memory leak is still at large over 3 months after release, it "eats" up your RAM then when its full starts using your virtual memory to store things, making it very slower compared to using RAM, so you will have to re-log with your char every hour or so for mediocre machines.

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Summary: Extremely laggy and bug ridden.
Review: This game should not have been released for at least another year. This game is so buggy, people should not even be purchasing this game, its still the same as it was in beta...the game is so laggy in towns you get down to 1-2 frames per sec and are virtually standing still while you run. Extremely bad coding in this game.

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Summary: Do NOT buy this horrible horrible game
Review: This game is a tragedy. Bugs everywhere, instead of fixing the problems, they seem to be making them worse with every patch. Problems plague this game left and right. Do yourself a favor and avoid it at all costs. The game also crashes randomly and doesnt work on like 25% of computers.

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Summary: A very boring game because it has no real goals as an RPG
Review: Software Quality:
REALLY REALLY BAD. Patches that adds serious bugs into the game. New features that is actually a cover up for the bugs introduced. Terrible. Bugs include not being able to hit monster from time to time, cannot even log on your character for days, items disappear for no reason, and 1000000000 other serious bugs. People are already level 200 before the offical story line starts supposedly in september......

Gameplay:
If you don't mind playing an EXTREMELY buggy game. AO does have a really good character development system, lots of classes, lots of ways to develop each class.
However, there is no "content" in AO. By that I mean there is nothing you can do WITH your level and equipment, besides gaining more level and equipment. So you gain a sense of doing stuff for nothing, which turns AO into a EXTREMELY boring game.

And for PvP people, with so many bugs and so many new stupid "features" going in each patch, PvP is terrible.

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Summary: Please don't waste your money
Review: As said before, this game shows so much promise... playing it from Beta, I really wanted to enjoy it. But the bugs, incomplete coding, horrid bug fixes that start new bugs, no storyline as of yet, little to no technical support, and lack of depth make Anarchy Online a game you do not want to buy. Trust me, save your money for Dark Age of Camelot or Star Wars Galaxies... don't spend your money on Anarchy Online.

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Summary: Anarchy Online by Funcom
Review: I wasted my money on this AO game. Like most of us, I have played many computer role-playing games, and most of the other MMORPGs like Asherons Call, Everquest, and Ultima Online shine in terms of replayability. Unfortunately, Anarchy Online was a failure. Why? The only thing AO had going for it was its nice graphics. Everything else was repetitive, dull, frustrating, enraging, and most of all, boring. The gameplay was so DULL that i was smart and cancelled my account a month after the release date. The landscape might have been large, but it did not appeal to me as containing much interesting contents. Some places were deserted: few mobs to kill, scarce vegetation, boring outcome. To make matters worse, the designers of AO kept changing the rules, as if we, the consumers, were in their personal test tube; the designers completely failed at keeping my interest in the game for more than a month. I am happy to say that AO is over with. Perhaps a little grudgingly, but i will never buy a game made by Funcom again, ever.

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Summary: Just plain bad
Review: Bugs, Bugs, Bugs. Support isn't bad, it's non-existant. I wouldn't mind playing through the bugs, every online game has had it's stumbles out of the gate, but there is just nothing fun to do in Anarchy Online. Get a copy of Asheron's Call. Still a great game with great quests and great people.

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Summary: Buggiest piece of software I've ever used
Review: 3 months after its release, Anarchy Online is still not ready for prime time. The game crashes constantly, both on the server and client side, has horrible lag, and has literally hundreds of bugs. And on top of that, a big fraction of the promised features aren't implemented yet. And you're SoL if you have any problems, because there is no customer support. (Not BAD customer support. NO customer support.)

To be fair, when the game does work, it's fun. (Though monotonous.) But don't even consider buying the game in its current state. It's unplayable. Also consider that with the latest patch, Funcom has broken the game so horribly, beyond the awful state it was in before, that players are leaving en masse. The future of the game is seriously in question.

The final thing I want to point out is that Funcom seems more interested in making sweeping changes to the game and character system, in order to fix exploits both real and imagined, than they are in fixing the stabillity issues. They do this with total disregard for the consequences to legitimate players. If you play this game, prepare to have your charcters crippled on a regular basis.