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.
