Saturday, 28 July 2007

A good game?! - Lineage II

I am trying Lineage II right now.. and I just have nubbin around in it..

After have been trying some different games out I think it really look good. It's a different between this and for example WoW (World of Warcraft). I have an Orc Hunter there and a Orc Warrior here. Sure the character looks awesome in Lineage II and the outfit is soooo sexy, it's np to see that the game was created of guys for guys.

The normal movement keys w, a, s, d isn't working in Lineage and it got me lost in the beginning. One thing I was thinking was hard in the start was that it popped up a ring around your head showing direction where to go... Sure its a good thing..

But hey, they had to make it big like a stargate? Anyway, the moment is hard when the 99% of the games I playing has the normal wasd keys and this is almost 97% just mouse clicking and moment. You can skip the keyboard for a while if you want to.

The WoW and DDO (Dungeons & Dragons Online) grafics maybe isn't the best if you compare to Lineage, but the game feeling WoW have is much better what I think. I know many ppl will call me crazy. So I just have to say this is what I think of the games.I have been playing DDO for a while before.. got a bit addicted to it.. But that is as many other mmorpg a team up and fight game. You can do a lot of single mission but its hard. In Lineage and in WoW you can do most of it alone. Sure in WoW when you coming up to lvl 40+ then it's always fun and easier to have a helping hand. I guessing that it's the same in Lineage.

Some Lineage info:
Players create a character as their avatar in the game's medieval-style virtual world. Humans, Elves and Dark Elves start off in the Kingdom of Aden while Dwarves and Orcs start off in the Kingdom of Elmore (Elmore was an entirely different continent until recent versions of the game that have since joined Elmore to Aden). Players can choose from either fighter or mystic professions at the start, except for Dwarves which are only able to select the fighter profession. This choice acts as an archetype for later profession options. Each race has its own set of classes, even if humans, elves and darkelves have a lot of classes which are very similar to their counterparts in the other two races.

Players have a variety of things they can do for fun in the game. They play alone or as part of a group to fight monsters and complete quests for new skills, experience points, and items. Player versus player (PvP) is a significant portion of the game. The game provides many social/politic/economic aspects which are developed through the community and by the actions in-game of single players. Lineage II features siege warfare like the original. To make sure PvP stays under control, the design includes a Karma system that provides negative consequences for killing other players when they are not fighting back.

Lineage II features greatly improved third-person 3D graphics over its predecessor. The game uses the Unreal 2.0 Engine developed by Epic Games.

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