Monthly Archives: January 1970

Vanguard – Saga of Heroes

Vanguard: Saga of Heroes immerses players in a rich, seamless fantasy world filled with mystery and intrigue. The only limits are your own in the world of Telon, where the adventurous can choose from multiple paths of exploration within the three spheres of advancement, Adventuring, Crafting, and Diplomacy.”

“Players can delve into the mysteries of Telon, and embark upon quests to slay monstrous beasts locked deep inside rugged mountain ranges. Those with a quick mind can use diplomacy to convince kings to move armies and change the course of history. With player-crafted boats, flying mounts, and customizable player housing, Vanguard offers players a world of their own choosing.

City of Heroes

The Super Powered Massively Multiplayer RPG

Welcome to City of Heroes, the online world that’s home to an entire universe of heroes, where you and thousands of other players take on the roles of super powered heroes – in a stunning, 3D graphical world.
 
Super Powered Action and Adventure
 
Create Your Own Hero
Choose from hundreds of different powers and design your own unique costume.
 
Fight Evil!
Confront super villains, aliens, madmen, criminals, and other fearsome foes. Take on personalized missions and rid the city of several different evil organizations and hundreds of individual enemies.
 
Form Your Own Super-group of Heroes
Band together with other players to fight evil and become the premiere hero group in the city!
 
Explore the City
Explore the skyscrapers, slums, sewers and streets of Paragon City, a sprawling online metropolis that offers unlimited adventures and countless surprises.
 
Live the Story
Become an integral part of more than thirty different ongoing story arcs as the villain groups menace Paragon City and react to player victories and defeats.

Tales of Pirates

Tales of Pirates is shut down, and now part of Tales of Pirates II.

Tales of Pirates is a fully 3D designed multiplayer online game based on 5000 years of background history with Piracy as its central theme. It is comical in nature and has humorous looking characters and creatures. The game is painted in bright and beautiful colors. The exaggerated movements and actions of characters as well as objects, topped with an atmosphere that is overall relaxed, the game makes it always interesting and fresh for new and old players alike.

There are also different styles, themes and architecture for the different towns, islands and dungeons. The multitude of elements designed captivates players and keeps them immersed while they explore all different possibilities available in game.

 

Age of Armor

 

Age of Armor is a robot-themed online game based on the wars between Earth United Government and the Republic of Aesir. The massive multiplayer online game is at its open test stage in China.

In Age of Armor, you can:

– Explore the game world presented in incredible graphics and sound.
– Assemble your own Armor, and change it from time to time. Weapon, shield and even color are all for you to decide.
– Choose your character from three classes with distinguishing features. Make decision to be a neo-human sniper, an enhanced-human fighter or a human healer. None is replaceable.
– Find rich PVP and PVE content. We have PVP and non-PVP servers for players to choose. In some places, the two alignments will have to work together to fight against their common enemies. Moreover, new player server will help you to level up quickly without worrying about getting shot from behind.
– Form your guild and lay siege to the opponents’ cities. Rule the occupied cities and make your guild well-known and feared by the enemy.

 

Download – Age of Armor Patch 0.28-0.29

Download – Age of Armor Patch 0.35-0.37

BB Tanks

Command your individual tank and battle it out with others in this turn-by-turn strategy based shooter. Fun maps set the stage for battle as you equip your tank with all sorts of zany weapons. Up to 8 players at once with different modes to choose from and all sorts of maps to play on!

Lunia

Lunia an online Action RPG with life-like 3-D characters in a two-dimensional background.
Combination attacks that you can create by using the keyboard keys.
It feels like watching an animated film with a powerful 3D impact and presentation.

Shot Online

Shot-Online is a sports simulation game which features a realistic physics system. Swings have a distinct feel from character to character thanks to motion capture taken from professional players. Players really feel like they are out on the course playing golf in some of the most amazing locations imagined. The course designs are inspired by the most beautiful, challenging, and popular links from all over the world.

 

 

Most other golf games released to date give the same set of golf clubs to all of its players, but Shot-Online players are given the freedom to choose their own set of clubs, each with their own strengths and distinct feel. Even gamers with no previous experience in golf can quickly jump in and play with the aid of the in-depth Tutorial mode. In other games, the difference between beginners and advanced players is not very significant, however in Shot-Online, the gap can be as large as fifty strokes.

WYD – With Your Destiny

With Your Destiny is a Free to Play MMORPG with Diablo like gameplay. It boast detailed graphics of character and terrain and has pragmatic day and night visual effects.
 
The game has Seven classes, 400 character levels, close to 400 quests and tons of monsters.
 
Some other game features are:
 
Combat realism
– Wide array of skills and weapons.
– Superb attacking actions and sound effects.
– Excellent visual graphics.
– Hunting monster, Guild wars, and Guild ranking tournaments will provide more excitement on the battlefield.
  
Easy and Simple User interface
– Quarter view based.
– Mouse based controls and easy to memorize hotkeys.
– Easy panning of camera view.  
 
Minimal System requirements
– Low system requirements with a high quality 3D graphics.
– PIII 500 MHz, 128 MB of RAM, 16 MB (3D graphics card)  
 
Community
– Party and Guild System.
– Periodical Guild War and Guild ranking system.  
 
Quest System
– Adds more fun, excitement, and interest through wide variety of quests.
– Solo or party quests.
– Increase user’s capability though the quest system 
 
Dungeon & Special Area
– Dungeon of Darkness, under world, and Desert Zone.
– Boss monsters special items drop.  
 
Kingdom System
– Two separate kingdoms : Hekalotia and Akeronia.
– Additional items that can be use for competition.
– Tax system on the kingdom.
 
Mount System
– Mount that will increase Character’s movement speed, attack damage, evasion rate and resistance.
– Wide variety of Mounts with different capabilities and skills.
– Mount growth system (Egg -> Hatching -> Baby mount -> Full grown mount)

Fiesta Online US

Fiesta Online is a colorful fantasy MMORPG featuring anime-style graphics and regular updates. Players can adventure in a story-driven world with six classes, and participate in regular activities as well as traditional MMORPG features such as instances, guilds, and PvP.

Features:

Five Fun Classes: Play as a Fighter, Mage, Cleric, Archer, or Trickster! Each class has job advancements as you level up, making you more powerful.

Plenty of Quests: Hundreds of quests await you in a story-driven world with new content added frequently.

Daily Quest System: Complete daily quests for fame, which can be exchanged for premium items.

Apprenticeship, Marriage, & More: Many social features await you, including a marriage system, master-apprentice system with experience boosts, guilds, card collecting, and more.

eDimensional Audio FX Headphones Review

eDimensional Audio FX Headphones Review

 

A little while ago I got a package with a free pair of headphones to review on the site.  The headphones sported a Force Feedback “Rumble” system that promised to immerse you in games.  Eh…. Yeah, I was definitely sceptical.  But, since I did get the free pair of headphones I decided to give them a try anyways.

 

While the headphones sport a microphone ready to play games in teamspeak such as Counterstrike  or your other favourite shoot-em-ups, I decided to use them with the game I’m hopelessly addicted to, Everquest 2.  I hooked up the headphones to my laptop through the speaker jack and connected it to the USB as well to enable the rumble. I turned the dial on the headphones to max vibration and fired up EQ2.   This was definitely an interesting experience. Right away, I felt very immersed in the game.  Compared to my laptop speakers (obviously) this was a world of difference. What really amazed me was what happened 30 seconds later.  I approached an enemy and cast a spell. The usually mundane sound effects and explosions were not so mundane anymore.  A big explosive noise caused the headphones to rumble. Between the headphone’s strong base and the vibrations in my head, the fight actually turned exciting.  I found myself casting different spells and trying different attacks just to see how the headphones would react to the noises.  It definitely made fighting in the game a lot more fun.

 

While the headphones help provide a much more interactive and immersive experience, there are some bad aspects to it.  The main drawback I noticed has to do with the rumble itself.  After about half an hour to an hour of rumbling fun, I found myself with a very mild headache.  This can perhaps be avoided by not turning up the vibrations to the max and lowering the volume a bit, but it’s hard to do as I always find myself tempted to crank up the vibrations “just a little more”.  Additionally, while the headphones provide a very good sound for gaming, I wouldn’t say they give the most balanced experience for listening to music.  While it might be cool to listen to your favourite song a couple of times to see how it feels with the rumble, after the novelty is gone, you’ll want to stick with regular headphones for that.

 

Overall however, if you want to be immersed in an online game and need an integrated microphone, the eDimensional Audio FX headphones are a good solution at $50. Go to  http://www.edimensional.com for more information.