Friday, September 24, 2010

URGENT WARNING!

The following MMOS are unstable and will infect your computer with heavy Malware caution is advised when looking into these games, and I recommend avoiding them all together.

CABAL ONLINE - The client doesn't work, as long as the client exists on your computer it will slow it down immensely, to top it all the client is undeleteable.

SHOOTERS BY IJJI - with the exception of Gunz - The Duel, (which I will be writing a review for on a later date) my computer was bugged and slowed down extremely simply by installing these games. The games themselves run smoothly but don't let that fool you, there not nice to your computer at all.

HOLY BEAST ONLINE HOSTED BY IJJI - See my review of HB, also shares the installation issues of IJJI's first person shooters.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Champions of Legend Come Together In One of The BEST MMOs Around



There are so many good things about Legendary Champions Online I could talk about, and even better, so little bad things. In Legendary Champions, Heroes from myth, legend, and ancient history, come together under three emperors currently in a struggle against one another. Depending on which emperor you choose to fight for, you'll have the opportunity to interact with, and eventually play as different legendary figures, ranging from Dracula, to Beowulf, Joan of Arch, and even Mulan.





Mounts are introduced to you right off the bat, the moment you start the game your given a not half bad looking horse. (and unlike most other games the starter mount doesn't expire after a time period) during Closed Beta there was a lack of character customization, eventually they will open the Item mall which will most likely have unique costumes (bought with real money as everyone so infamously knows) to alter your apearance to your desire. What the game lacked in individuality in the fashion world, it made up for with almost fully customizable stats. Each stat had a perfect blend of individuality, AND similarity, allowing for the creation of a killing machine, or powerful healer made completely your way.

If there's any significant problem it's this: a lot of the quests require you to do an insane amount of killing, though this game in no way makes you grind for levels, having to kill anywhere from 40-60 (and even 100 at one point)monsters for one quest can get pretty redundant. Luckily the quest that requires you to kill a boss hardly ever requires a party, as your hero of choice (referred to as a "Guardian" in game) can effortlessly solo most quest related bosses. (Deities and event bosses, now those are a whole 'nother story)


Legendary Champions Scores an 7 out of 10 (3.5 out of 5)
I look forward to playing this game again when open beta starts, and I recommend it to anyone who reads this.





Thursday, September 9, 2010

Souls of the Fallen Masters



After Fantasy Earth Zero, and League of Legends made such disastrous attempts at MMO-RTS games, I sought out yet another, (hopefully good) RTS style game. Unfortunately this too seemed to have its fair share of problems...

The game is call Soul Master Online, players take the role of the "Soul Linker" the "Heroes" of the game, and although you don't directly control them, you also get to order around a horde of usually around 60 minions. The fights work like any other RTS game, build a base, build an army, clash with the opponents army, spray and prey, so on and so forth. Depending on what Soul Linker you choose your strand of minions (souls as their called in game) are different.

And THAT'S where the problems start...

The basic minnions appear to most likely help counter act the weakness of each Soul Linker Available to you. If you went with the caster hero, your minions are pokemonish looking souls with a tank like fighting style, allowing you to stay in the back. The same goes for the Assassin based class (who possesses a rather interesting ranged attack) only their minions special abilities allow for minor hit-n-run attempts...And then there's the Melee class...
Due to the Melee classes considerable lack of range, he's given powerful ranged minions (The rat looking things shown above) that fire cannons that deal an insane amount of damage...fix these guys up with some nice defense upgrades and you've got an invincible army of long range bombers backing up an invincible short range tank hero. Needless to say the Melee class (known in game as Valiants or Knights) is the dominating class of the game, which every RTSMMO seems to have...

This would normally be the ultimate downfall of the game, however Soul Masters online, has a very fun party based PVE system, and the community is actually pretty nice (except for that one random jerk who exists in every online game ever made) and helpful.

Soul Masters gets a 3.5 out of 10 (2 out of 5) who knows, if they release the new classes like they say they will at some point, maybe the game will balance out a little.