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Ultima Online Review

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

The game has been designed to look and also to work much like the company’s immensely popular Ultima 6. This rpg-game, Ultima Online, features a continuous changing world where much more goes on behind the scenes rather than most players will ever notice.

In the game nearly everything in the world has a purpose. The “virtual ecology,” as Starr Long, the Ultima Online’s associate producer calls it, affects nearly every aspect of the game world, small or big. If the population of rabbit suddenly drops (due to some gung-ho adventurer was trying out his new mace) then wolves might have to find different food sources – say, deer.

When the population of deer drops because of the local dragon not being able to find the food he’s accustomed to, may head into a local village and attack. As all of this takes place automatically, it also generates numerous adventure possibilities.

The great concepts of game reveals that gamers don’t really have to do anything that they want to. There is nothing to stop a player.

PlanetSide Review

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Sony Online Entertainment has been banking on PlanetSide that is its massively multiplayer first-person action game. Sony brings action gaming to the masses. Presently, the massively multiplayer gaming experience only exists in RPG games like the EverQuest and Ultima Online, but the developer Verant claims that a PlanetSide game server will be supporting 3,500 players.

The developer also claims that each continent of the gameworld planet can measure up to maximum of 64 square kilometers like which is about four times as large as a Tribes 2 map. Moreover, a persistent universe and a character advancement system are also there. There is an in-game ranking system by which to measure yourself and others.

In terms of gameplay, now gamers can play the part of a soldier that is caught in a planetary war. Gamers belong to an empire, and the goal of which is to win and hold territories first and then the continents of course.

In such a huge area tactics will play a major role. With the empire allies gamers conduct incursions into enemy territory to get hold of more land and even take up a defensive position in the plot. More to this, gamers may also engage in solo assignments against the enemy.