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This game was very fun at first but after playing it for a while it will get very, very repetative. I want to make it clear that I did play World of warcraft but I didn't like that game at all. My favorite MMO I have played was SWG before sony destroyed it. Gameplay The gameplay was very fun at first. It gave you many, many different quests to undertake. There have been many times where I have been holding 30 different quests. Well, the only problem with these quests are a lot of them are all the same. Aside from the epic quests of coarse. But most of them are very repetative and can get very boring the longer you play the game. I've gotten to level 40 and I'm already bored with the massive wave of quests that the game throws at you in every town. People say you never grind in this game but your pretty much just grinding with objectives. Killing monsters over and over so some guy doesn't have to do the hunting himself. How fun... One thing that I did find fun was grouping in this game. There is a neat conjunction system that allows you to work with your group to do massive dammage or massive heals. But you have to have a good group that is willing to listen or this system is pointless... With the community so far this is hard to find. The combat in this game is very fun. This is what kept me going for as long as I did. Some of the classes (like burglar) are very tactical to play and knowing all of your skills really does help in this game. I have no skills that are just useless. The combat also looks really great and smooth. Well, there is a music system. But this music system doesn't really accomplish anything except showing off. They could have made it so you heal people or put buffs on them by creating your own music. But no, it just seems very pointless. Classes in this game are very simple and one lvl 40 burglar and another lvl 40 burglar will likely do the same stuff and be just as good as each other. The trait system tried to make players different in their abilities but the differences just aren't big enough to even matter. I like having an awesome crafting system in my games and this game is truly lacking that. Most of the items that you craft will be worse than the items you get in quests or even off of monsters so the system just feels kind of pointless. Environment The environment in ths game truly shines from other MMO's because oh matter where you are you won't feel that your just traveling in fluff. Something that they just put together to fill space. Everywhere is truly interesting. The downside to this is that the world is extremely small right now and places lose their interest the more times you see them...

Community I have no idea how all of these reviews are saying how "mature" the community is but this is just as bad if not worse than the WoW community. The OOC is plagued with insults and swearing. Every time you try to get a node one or more people will rush up to try to steal it. Nobody really listens to anybody in groups. The community is just bad and can really take away from the gameplay. Graphics The graphics for this game are great. The graphics totally blow games like SWG and WOW out of the water. But they are older games so what else would you expect. Your computer does have to be pretty nice to have the graphics tuned all the way up though so if you have a lower end system they may not look as great as I'm giving them credit for. Sound Well... its the same as any other MMO. I've played games where the music truly stands out and matters but this isn't one of those games. I think it would have been really cool if they used the music from the movies but that music isn't here. End game The endgame doesn't really give you much to do. But hey, this is a NEW MMO and its likely that much more will be added for endgame in the future so if this is what you are looking for you could just give it time. If not, I'd look into some new games coming out like Warhammer or Age of Cohan. These games both promise very nice engame PVP. Which this game is missing badly. I did try the monster play in this game but playing as a monster was horrible and it just seemed kind of pointless to me. You didn't earn very much that was truly useful for your main. Value I think creating an alt would be extremely boring in this game. The reason is because there is only one place to do quests at a certain level. (Except for the starting areas of coarse.) So you'd just be repeating the same of quests again for the second time. It would be truly boring. Final thoughts So, I guess this game could be fun to some. People who love PVE and doing quests but if anybody wants any more depth to their games I wouldn't really recommend this game. It's fun for the first 20 levels or so but then it gets kind of boring.