Posts Tagged ‘rpg games’

Anarchy Online: The Notum Wars

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

This game in 2008 was a highly anticipated game because of its then-unique sci-fi setting. Though it has impressive graphics, but unfortunately, the game was launched with many technical problems that drove many gamers away from the game. After that the game has now become much more technically stable, but still sometimes the problems persists with lag, especially when there are lots of players and objects in the one single area.

This game is especially true of Notum Wars’ new tower battles that are an important part of the booster pack’s new land control feature. In this game, players who belong to a player organization can claim to deposits of the energy-rich resource notum in the way by building notum controllers to mine the stuff from beneath and then to erect powerful and expensive defense towers on the perimeter.

Again a poor luck for the game. The control is rather problematic. The world of Anarchy Online is not a very populated game and it is not uncommon to run about for hours without seeing other players.
The land control was intended to be an exciting new feature. This feature let the teams of players to engage in large-scale battles to seize or defend notum controllers.

Aion: The Tower of Eternity Hands-on

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

NCsoft’s Aion: The Tower of Eternity is one of the most interesting. This game is fully new high-fantasy MMORPG that has developed in Korea. The developers have noted that this RPG game is to be designed and aimed at a worldwide market. The game uses the same Crytek engine which has been used in the FPS game Far Cry in order to produce some extremely colorful and lush environments and that is full of fully physics-based elements like water, for example, which will slow down characters trying to slog through it.

The greenery in the forest and wetlands environments of the game is pretty thick and the player models are adorned in very ornate armor that exhibits a very Korean or Eastern sensibility in character design. The weather effects in the game are also there, and these gives the real effect on gameplay by using fire-based attacks in a driving rain, for example, it won’t be as effective, while using water-based attacks in the same type of weather can make those spells even stronger.

Albion

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

One more review in the sphere of free games. It is Albion. The graphics of the game, for instance, are robustly detailed and colored, drawing their style from somewhere between Johnny Quest comic books and the more, not as racing games or sports games, “serious” essence of Origin’s Ultima worlds.

The same is a fact of both the game’s plot and its supporting cast of human and alien characters. Indeed, the idea of the future is a multi-hued one in Albion, and communicating with your multinational peers and the exotic, catlike aliens instills a cross-cultural empathy that few games have managed to successfully convey. A game made for kids of all ages.

It is not until and unless gamers venture beneath the surface, however, that Albion turns disagreeable.

Albion

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

One more review in the sphere of free games. It is Albion. The graphics of the game, for instance, are robustly detailed and colored, drawing their style from somewhere between Johnny Quest comic books and the more, not as racing games or sports games, “serious” essence of Origin’s Ultima worlds.

The same is a fact of both the game’s plot and its supporting cast of human and alien characters. Indeed, the idea of the future is a multi-hued one in Albion, and communicating with your multinational peers and the exotic, catlike aliens instills a cross-cultural empathy that few games have managed to successfully convey. A game made for kids of all ages.

It is not until and unless gamers venture beneath the surface, however, that Albion turns disagreeable.

Guild Wars

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

The game Guild Wars is definitely in the home run stretch. The cofounder of ArenaNet, Jeff Strain, said to the media in a press conference that the online action role-playing game has been in development for several years, but this game is finally nearing completion, though it is still at least a few months away. The updated look at Guild Wars has many of the new features that have been added.

ArenaNet is in fact now polishing the Guild Wars RPG game, generating final content to flesh out the world a bit more and balancing the approximately 400 skills that will ship with the game. As an aftermath the world looks more lush and organic than it previously did and of course it is still hard to believe that in fact the entire game streams to the hard drive over the Internet. Some of the new content allows the gamers to customize their own character’s appearance even further and there are many new faces, hairstyles, items, and weapons being added to the game.