The game play is also somewhat different from the usual mold. Instead of playing one character, you play three. That means you can play a warrior, ranger, and a healer all at one time. Its not too unlike having a party with Heroes in Guild Wars. Well, except for the fact that Guild Wars is a better game. One downside to this is that there's very little incentive to group up. Maybe later in the game, they might have raids or areas where you need to group to survive, but in the beginning areas I've seen so far, you basically solo your party of three as they traverse dungeons with extremely rapid spawn rates, running past a lot of really quiet parties of three with random names. The game is very fast paced; you'll down thousands of mobs in the course of a few hours.
The game in most areas almost plays itself. You hit Ctrl+Click on a location and your characters automatically walk through, fighting everything on the way. Hit Ctrl+Shift+Click on a location, and they walk there, picking up any treasure they see along the way. Fighting boss monsters does require some more strategy and the use of skills you level up along the way. You can also collect "UPCs" (Unique Player Characters), which are henchmen you can swap in as a member of your party, and "Stances" which give you different skills you can use.
There isn't much depth to the game. Its basically your standard level grind. The gameplay is designed more for Eastern audiences, so there are many nuisances such as the fact you have to click to move places. And the translation from its Far East origins apparently wasn't entirely smooth; many UI dialogs have buttons that are too small for the text within them. But it IS free to play. So, if you are stuck waiting for the EverQuest II servers to come up like I was earlier this morning, its not a bad way to wile away the time.
There are a lot of better games out there (even free ones), so I doubt I'll be coming back to it often, but it is nice to see more MMOs out there trying out new settings. Now, if only one of them could break free of the standard level, monster, item treadmill grind rut this industry seems to be stuck in...
2 comments:
Hello Lars;
i quite enjoyed reading your post and there are some true facts you're telling.
The last sentince realy says it all that all of the games are realy the same..leveling, questing , slaying monsters ect..:).
For Guilt Wars:
I have the game on my computer but I rarely play it, i thing the game from the graphic side is pretty nice but ther is only ONE thing which realy bothers me a holds me back from playing it and that is the "labeling" of every monster I click on!! If u look at it there is one health-beam on top and the name on the bottom (label) and then there is a circle on the ground- so how much do u need :)!?? I dont know , I was searching the net to find a way to get rid of the labels but could find anything (except: STRG+H which is not mean because I do neet at least my Spell-Slots visible).In particular when the monsters are in the distance you hardly can discern one from the other because it's cluttert of RED labels ??
I think this labeling realy destroyes the nice graphics! And I also dont always want to click on labels rather on the monster itselfe!
Well anyhow :)
Another point is that with most of the online games u dont "fight" that is to say u only "click" your monster and your char fights on its own??
I played a game once which called "Silver" its an old game but i realy liked to play it because u as a player had to do all the fighting by slipping the mouse forth and back or to do different movements.
If u like I would talk to u a bit more about this topic I have a blog to there u can find my mail so if u like yust mail me..
greeting
Don
this game is soooo good!!! and is free!!
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