Rating: - Forget the 5 star reviews
Forget the great reviews here. The 4 and 5 star reviews are going to be people who played the first fraction of the game, levels 1 - 20, in the single lowbie area which is the only of AoC part that's almost finished.
Levels 50+ are just bad content wise. There's no end game. Advertised features don't exist or don't work properly. Their test server for adding content is horrible, so patches made are always unbalanced and filled with bugs.
As of this date, most AoC servers are ghost towns. You can't find people to group with, raid with, or fight against. PvP servers are even worse. Guild rosters are made up alomst entirely of people who've left for other games.
This game needs to have server mergers or, preferably, to be put back into beta and re-released sometime in 2009.
Rating: - A great game that never was...
I really wish Funcom would have waited and added content to the game before the released it. This game has probably the best combat system ever designed for an mmorpg and that's where it stops. Quests lack depth, pvp isn't fun, end game content didn't work...I could go on and on. Give Funcom another 6 months and this could be a great game but, it is probably too late. Server populations are 1/4 of what they used to be and falling rapidly.
Rating: - Pretty Good.
Pretty good and the fatality moves are Awesome but think I will be sticking with LOTRO.
Rating: - Great, for the first day of play...
Yes, the opening area of Tortage is a great game - great story, great way to learn the ropes with multiple quest types which ideally suit the class you choose - full of replayability, in this first area.
After leaving Tortage, the game degenerates into a clone of every other boring MMO on the market.
Rating: - Bugs, lack of content, and missing key features bring this game down
Great graphics and atmosphere along with some interesting game play don't make up for the bugs, lack of content, and missing features.
- Forget the 5 star reviews
- A great game that never was...
- Pretty Good.