Ferion is a great game. It’s a turn based strategy game, and once u get the research done, its a great game. There is an option to expand the game even more, which unfortunatly costs money, but at a small fee. And there is a great referal system that they have goin. It helps after a while, it just takes a little at first. but in the end, it pays off. It really is a great game, and i suggest u check it out.
Planetia is a FREE ticks based space strategy game.
You own a planet and together with your galaxy and/or your alliance you try to dominate the universe. Develop your planet and attack/defend with your fleets to gain power.
Player can play together with friends in small private galaxies (10 planets) or in larger random galaxies (20 planets).
People can start with different race planets each having it’s own shiptypes to develop and build.
You mine asteroids for resources and try to attack and capture asteroids from others planets in the universe.
Fairly easy gamepley but quite a tough game to play due to the highly competative community.
Advisable is to get help in the start from an experienced player and/or to find an alliance in the game which you can join.
Planetia has a strong gaming community and has it’s own IRC server and extensive gaming forums. This game has been around for 8 rounds (jun 2004) now with thousands of people playing each round and has been the game of the month on mpogd.com in jan 2004
The english version of Priston Tale can be downloaded at eng.pristontale.com. There are already many versions of Priston Tale and servers are set up and already P2P in many asian countries such as thailand, korea, and I think China. Keep in mind that Priston Tale has been in the beta stage in the USA for about 2 years, and I’ve heard it was going commercialized, but any which way, they already announced free Priston Tale until level 39 (that’s still a lot of gameplay).
Interface-The interface for Priston Tale I think is decent. They of course have visual display of your HP and mana. They have hotkeys assigned to check your character stats, inventory, and so forth. It is also real simple, click to move, hold your left mouse to keep moving, and left click on monster to attack, right click to use your assigned spell. The only things that really nagged me was that they only allowed 3 quick slots assigned to numbers 1,2,3, on your keyboard for use. Knight-Online I think offered 8 or 7, around there. Another thing about the interface that really nagged me was you cannot hotkey your skills, at least I haven’t been able to during my gameplay, you had to open your skill window, and right click on the skill to assign it to your right mouse button.
I give interface an 7/10, halfway decent, still needs some work.
Graphics-Now graphics in Priston Tale are good for an anime-style looking MMORPG. The textures are detailed (unless you turn down your graphic settings for better performance), and there are barely any jaggies. Spell designs are decent, hacking and slashing does show some nice particle effects. Character creation needs to be more diverse, you can only select the 3 facial features of your character, nothing else really besides his/her class/tribe also. Character models are not really a biggie, they are decent in the game, a little diversity here and there. One thing that I did love was the login screen, the 3D background was simply beautiful. I give graphics 9/10, good, of course, but not perfect, lacking some diversity in character models.
Sound-The Sound in Priston Tale is good. I loved the background music, it really added the element of feel to the game. I turned it off mainly for performance issues, but the gameplay was simply not the same without the background music. Spell sounds are very diverse. Attacking sounds get repetitive after a while, but there are also a very diverse array of monster sounds. There are also good interface sounds that every RPG should have. I give sounds 9/10.
Gameplay-Ahh, gameplay in Priston Tale is very addicting. I faced many issues connecting to the server, mainly because of system reasons. Beware 256 Ram computers and below! Gameplay in Priston Tale is very good, the party system is awesome, your party is shown as yellow dots on your map incase you lose them on your screen ;). Up to 6 party members, experience gets splits decently. Not INSANELY hard to level up, actually is pretty easy from levels 1-20. This game mainly lacks spells(can’t learn first one until level 10), there is a decent selection of armors and weapons in the game. Game did get boring to me after about a week, well that’s me, I just got bored of hacking and slashing, and real LACK of spells, I cast same 2 spells for 4 hours of gameplay.
I give gameplay 8/10, for some people it gets insanely addictive then they lose interest after a while.
Lag-Lag is pretty unbearable at times, especially if you have a mid-range computer. I have 256 RAM pc 2100, 2.4 ghz P4, and it lags pretty hecticly at crowded areas. I died 3 times in same night from hunting in the same area with about 3 parties. When monsters spawn (spawn ALOT) mixed with about 20 people, lag starts easing in, for me about 3 second lags every 5 seconds. I didn’t get Disconnections a lot, mainly because I have DSL. Loading times on my PC are unbearable (beware 256 RAM). There is moderate gameplay lag. I rate lag 6.5/10 (game is a little resource hoggy and moderate gameplay lag).
Community/support-Ahh the community, in-game people are very nice, I had a high level give me free steel armor and free kite shield the other day. But on the forum boards on the eng.pristontale.com site, people are very mean and idiotic. Support such as getting hacked and losing items, Administrators don’t do anything or close to nothing. I give community/support 5/10, ingame people are decent, except for some KSers, bad support, bad forums.
Overall-Overall, Priston Tale this year comes out to be in my Top 3 list (I’ll have to see how guild wars and WoW comes out). I give it a 8/10 overall. I recommended, if you’re bored then play it! (be warned download client is 528 MB)
This game has managed to keep my attention for quite some time now. It’s not a hard concept to grasp, but to actually play it well, is not all that easy.
The game is turn based: meaning you get one turn every 5, 7 or 10 minutes (depending on the server you’re playing). With these turns you can do things like build an army, research and use spells, attack or buy items from the market.
You can put as much or as little time in it as you like. As it takes about 24 hours to get maximum turns, you can play once a day if you’re active. But this is not a requirement.
The nice thing about this game is the community: although the player base is still not large enough, the players that are involved right now are more than happy to welcome and help any new players. This help can be found in the forums and on IRC and you can also join a guild and instead of fight alone, fight and learn with (new) friends.
However, it might be difficult to understand everything right away. First of all, you can read several start-up guides that are available. But sometimes they don’t have all the answers. My advise: don’t give up. Try things yourself, or ask around if you really need help. And if you die, just reincarnate and try again.
+ Community
+ Administrator (listens to player’s comments and tries to improve the game as much as possible)
+ Challenge
– Difficult to get started (ask help if necessary!!)
– Minor bugs that still appear every once in a while
– Small player base
It’s worth checking out.
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Overview: Oz world is a 3D MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Role-playing game). Oz world encourage gamers to make friends around. Oz have a level up system. Oz have a selection between the mouse and the keyboard to move around. You can go shopping around in the world of Oz and fish for underwater creatures to earn gold.
Graphics: Oz world has good 3D graphics for a MMORPG of its own game category. It has very detailed character and buildings, different wether conditions. It has cool effects too like the small wave circles created when something land in the water. The character is well animated with realstics features. Oz has different camera angles which could be adjust by the player but having some restrictions. Oz deserve a 7/10 for it’s graphics, Oz could score a better mark if the camera views dosent have the restrictions and the posture of the characters sleep on the bed.
Sound: Oz has a variety of background music at different places of the game, the background musics are smoothing and relaxing to your game play. It also has effects sound like the casting of fishing rods and landing of them, swimming in the water, sitting down on the bench and many more. OZ enables you to turn the volume of the indivual sound effects according to your likings. Oz deserve a high mark of 9/10 for its sound category.
Gameplay: Oz world like i had said earlier on that it encourages gamers to make friends around and had a virtual romace world. In the world of Oz, gamers gain gold by fishing different kinds of fishes which could sell for different prices sometimes in special ocassion gamers can earn more gold by attending events, gamers can buy clothes from stores and dress the way you wants, gamers can also purchase house, furniture, flowers and many other stuffs. Starting with a Citizen rank, gamers have to give flower to different people to Level up the rank, the higher the rank you gets this enables you to more varities of items. There are different towns and zones which you can explore with. Oz gameplay deserve a 6.5/10 as sometimes it gets pretty bored fishing fishes for gold you gotta find yourself a bunch of good friends which you can communicate well where the fun will begins.
Addtional Comments: If Oz has the funds to buy the patch from Korea, English Oz can be a much more better game than now, with new zones new stuffs it will be a brand new experince for every gamer on the run. This game is suitable for both male and female and for all ages. The downloading speed for Oz is quite fast, for me it just took me a couple of minutes.
Although, all these LotGD servers are kinda the same, they all are different also (most of them)
Gameplay: Pretty fun, nice selection of races to choose from, 8 races 🙂 including the drow. Like most of the others, it as its funny parts too, heres an example: “Farmboy Vendayn has been slain in the forest by Coblynau
You know, Farmboy Vendayn really had it coming to him after all those things I said about his mom,” commented Coblynau.” Ok, might not be the funniest, I kinda thought it was. 7/10
Layout : The layout is pretty much like the main server LoTGD. Different buildings then the others, like a stat upgrade building for gems. 7/10
Overall : Funner then the other server I reviewed, more turns and quicker day times and good races, not many people play at the moment from what I can see, never see anyone on, although people do chat, but I like it 🙂
This game is totaly cool. You can gain money by buying gold in the site or fishing. The population of this game is very small but friendly. It is 3d, and for me its better than Sims online. You can build house and dress up. It has an anime feeling on it. Its english and the community speaks english too. The npcs are like the ones in Final Fantasy 8.
The sounds?? Very cool! It even has day/night modes and sometimes snow. IT IS FREE!
There are alot of servers to choose from
this server Pyson as 50 turns per in-game day.
Graphics: It’s a text based game, what do you expect? Do like the background so. Can’t really rate this.
Gameplay : Pretty fun, funny to sometimes. Alot of turns to play. Once, I got a monster npc called”Bald programmer”. Sometimes when you kill a monster it says something funny for killing it. 8/10
Sound What sound? Oh, I like my mouse clicking 🙂
Community : Haven’t speant much time in this area, did ask a question and got laughed at. So, 3/10
Overall : Pretty fun, kinda like the other Legend of the green dragon servers. More “mounts” to choose from, which give you more power or other things, they cost gems and sometimes money to buy. Alot of turns you can use, which is nice. Overall I rate it a 7/10
Runescape has changed alot since the last review, that’s why I’m writing this.
——-Gameplay – 7 – The battle system is waaay too slow, not enough quests for F2P. All the abilities are great!
——Graphics – 6 – A little blockly, not much detail, but hey, it’s a java game!
——Sound – 7 – Music is great, I mean it, but the sound affects aren’t very catchy
—–Replay Value – 8 – It has a great replay value, but some poeple just quit playing it
—–Reviewers Tilt – 9 – I just love this game!
——BASIC SCORE – 8.0
——TOTAL SCORE – 7.9
EverQuest is a very solid game, with a loyal fan base and over 500,000+ people have once held accounts since it started March 16th, 1999. For all the expansions, EverQuest runs for about 40$ off their website ( https://store.station.sony.com/game_index.jsp?gamecode=EQ ). Although it has a steep subscription price at $12.95 per month, ordering for longer amounts of time (3, 6 or 24 month) lowers the price per month by a few dollars.
Once you log into EverQuest you are surrounded by Tolkien-inspired characters such as the halflings. EQ offers many class/race combinations with 15 races and 16 classes. I chose to be a Halfling Warrior. As I first logged in I was surrounded by a slightly confusing and cluttered User Interface. After a few minutes of figuring out where buttons were at, I learned that EQ has a very interesting newbie help system, where all local merchants and other Non-Player Characters can be located by simply clicking on their name from a list. This is very helpful for new players to navigate. After equiping my newbie weapon and shirt (Yes they give you free food and backpack in the beginning too!), I departed from Rivervale and ventured out into Misty Thicket, the local newbie zone, full of bats, rats, goblins, orcs and other assorted monsters for fighting. I noticed relativly high frame rates throughout the zone and decent graphics. One interesting feature not seen in many MMORPG’s is the ability to highly detail the facial features of your character down to the eye color. The sounds of EverQuest make you feel as if you are actually there, from the energetic tones of Rivervale to the intense sounds of the combat theme. Combat took very few seconds to grasp as I mastered the kick, bash, and taunt. I soon learned that when you died below level 10 you lost no experience and you did not have to retrieve your items from your body, but as you progressed you would. The players are very helpful and relativly mature. Within an hour of playing I was met by a young Halfling Druid who soon became my partner. We were in a group in which I was the “tank” and he was the healer. I personally thought the spell graphics were incredible looking. EverQuest is an always evolving game with many features that continue to pop up! Join a guild and raid Vox the Dragon or take a journey and master the art of smithing.
Graphics: 8 A little weak in some areas, but with Luclin Expansion the characters are nice looking.
Sound: 10 Hundreds of songs for each zone, however some get stuck in your head after a while!
Gameplay:9 Once you get the hang of it you become addicted, when Sony says “Your in our world now” they really mean it!
Overall: 9/10 Well worth dropping 50$ for, get the first 3 expansions for free and try it out for yourself.
System Specs Used For Testing
AMD 2600 2.133 GHZ
1024 MB DDR RAM
ATI Radeon 9600 PRO 256MB
Cable Internet (3MBPS)