Like any sequel from a major company Everquest 2 tries not to venture too far from the frist one if at all. It's a good game but it seems like they could have taken more chances. At the time of my writing (12/17/04) everybody is raveing how good World of Warcraft is and its better blah blah blah, a game should be based on it's own merrits. It's a solid game and still fun but it could have been so much more. The lacking of PvP hurts the game in my opinion and it seems like that was the origal plan was, considering the fact that there is both a "good" city and an "evil" city. All that there is to do is quest, not much room for exploration or anything of the like. Death is handled in a better matter then before. Though death in a group hurts the game more then it should. When you die you get XP debt, this just means your xp growth is stunded till you pay off the debt. Cool, at least you don't loose xp and maybe even a lvl. Also when in a group if somebody dies all members share in that debt. This was ment so nobody gets left behind in a fight and enforces a group to play as a group. From my playing the game, most people will leave a group if a few had fallen in an encounter. Some even if one falls. So sometimes you spend more time then you should looking for another group after a mishap. What I would have loved to see with the quest missions is that they took a page from City of Heroes. Missions that when stared are modified for the character who stared the quest and locks out all others outside of the current group. The game has a few situations like this but it dosen't seem to be used enough. This would have been a boon for those who enjoy to play solo, think about it, you get a quest to save whomever in a castle full of guards, you'll have to go in and deal with all the castle has to offer alone and not just hope that a previous group just came through and slamed everybody in there so you can have a cake walk. This would have been really fun for those in the Rogue classes too. I could go on forever saying that I think should be in the game...so I won't. As I've said the game feels very cookie cutter so there is not much to say. If you like MMO's and enjoy everying you've seen so far from other games of the genre, check out EQ2. If you're not a fan of MMO's this game isn't going to win you over at all, check out World of Warcraft or even City of Heroes.
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