Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited Review

Intro: Dungeons and Dragons Online (or DDO) was originally released as a “Pay to Play” MMORPG, to be honest I never heard about it until recently when it turned Free 2 Play! This game is very good, and unique. Oh yeah, this time I’m using my own screenshots!

Graphics:

On low settings

The graphics on this game are good, and I mean good, seriously, there are extremely detailed models in this game, they’re excellent, they can make it lag a bit though.

Sound/Music: The music for this game is good, its kind of what you’d expect from Lord of the Rings or D&D, a bit cliche, but good nonetheless. The great thing about this game is that almost all the characters have their own voice! Seriously, you talk to them and so do they! Its excellent. When you go into instances, there is a ‘Dungeon Master’ narrating a little bit, its really cool.

Gameplay: The gameplay, the best part of this. The game starts with character creation, where you can choose a type of gameplay (Melee, Magic or Specialized), a path for these, a class, a race, then a name (Which is first and last). You can’t make any attractive characters though.

You want my character ladies? No... neither would I.

You start the game with a short, instanced tutorial, where you go into a cave and battle some evil creatures, pretty normal, pretty easy. Then when you’re done you go to a town and do different quests, which all have their own little instance might I add, you can even solve puzzles in some.

Ever played "Connect the Pipes"? Well, this puzzle is the same.

You have to defeat different things, like in one you defeat a frog monster and smash a coffin in, a little random but still fun. The leveling system is a very unique one, due to the small level limit of 20. Every time you level up you gain a ‘level rank’, I believe there are 5 of them for each level, so after “Level 1 – Rank 5″ you become “Level 2 – Rank 1″ and so on, it works well and puts a lot more length into the game.

Overall: This is one of the gems of F2P MMO Gaming, its pretty much a must try MMO, and if you really love it, you can pay an optional subscription fee.
5/5

Runes of Magic Review

Intro: It’s time… I guess, for another review, no, I’m not good at making things sound dramatic, anyway, lets get on.
Runes of Magic is an MMO made by Frogster… the non-criticism company…

Graphics: You guessed it… the graphics are like World of Warcraft, except they are slightly more ‘realistic’… sounds strange but I’ll explain. In character creation (read on) you can choose lots of features, and these features really do show while you play, they are very, very…dare I say it? Okay… good.

Music/Sound: Music… I have one word… actually ‘GOOD’, once again, its a well orchestrated ‘soundtrack’. The sound effects are okay too, theres a little bit of voice acting and “RAWRS” from the monsters, but nothing to go crazy over…

Gameplay:

*Writes while singing "I love Google Images"*

On to the more… to be quite honest, dissapointing part. The game starts with character creation, with which you can choose (currently) two races, the Human and the Elf, the Humans look like traditional humans (well… yeah.) and the elves look like traditional elves. You can choose from several classes, all the obvious ones… name them…

Can you name them? Post in the comments!

…yeah. The game starts in racial starter areas, the humans have the usual, wooden village and the elves have lush, detailed forests (MMO Erotica?).  They’ve the usual creatures, from mushrooms to wolves, this won’t leave you lying on the floor in amazement… I feel. All of the classes have some starter skills, which can kill creatures relatively easy… but its too easy, and a bit annoying. You can eventually go to different zones through the use of blimp-like vehicles (WoW Reference…), which are a bit better, but not really better.

Overall: While this game can keep you playing for a while, and has many strong references to World of Warcraft… it just can’t always keep you playing.
4/5

Freaky Creatures Review

Intro: Freaky Creatures is one of those games where you play it for about 10 minutes, then un-install it, theres nothing here to please people, read on.

Freaky Creatures is a game made by Abandon Interactive, I assume its their first project, due to the fact that I’d never heard anything about them before this. Its sort of like Spore Hero, you make a unique ‘Freaky Creature’ then battle it out to the death, there is also a PvE aspect coming.

Graphics:The graphics are a very strong point for this game, seriously, I’m as surprised as you are. But there is one problem, they are too good, because there is a LOT of lag, and I don’t think its down to servers, because not many people play this game.

Get freaky, get freaky, everyone in the house get freaky

 

Sound/Music: Another dissapointing part, there is barely any sound apart from the occasional “RAWR” when your creature gets hit.

Gameplay: Hooray, we get to the part where I have to constantly swear about how terrible this game is… okay, I won’t swear, but its still terrible. Freaky Creatures is (currently) a PvP game, where you make your creature and beat the cr*p out of other creatures, simple. But the game’s combat is dissapointing, you’d expect it to be like Mortal Kombat or Tekken… but its like Pokemon… and not a very good adaptation of the combat system either. You click on what body part you would like to hurt, and it does it, you either hit or miss, which gets unbelievably tedious and annoying, if you remember Pokemon, it let you have different abilities, and it was fun. Your creature can also have a ‘lair’, which is, well… a lair. Nothing exciting about customizing them, apart from the odd competition where you win for the best lair… it at least gives you something to do…

Overall: I wouldn’t reccomend this game… seriously. It’s meant to be ‘Child Friendly’, so if you want your child repeatedly smashing their head on the keyboard due to boredom, feel free to get them this. Oh yes, there is also an optional subscription fee, which I can’t imagine anyone paying for.
1/5

EDIT: I forgot to mention the system of USB Action Figures, you plug them in and it adds things to your account, pretty cool.
I heard the PvE came out, I may do a re-review soon.