Waste of time? Or time to buy?
User Rating: 7.8 | Final Fantasy XI X360
I have been playing this game for several months now and this game grasped me from the start. Even though an RPG is not usually my kind of game i still couldnt get off this highly addictive massively online RPG. In my eyes this game is absolutley amazing for gameplay even though it is slow paced and can be seen a dull and bland at times. This is due to the fact that this is very time consuming for you to make progress. It is not a game that you can pick up for half an hour and expect to get far through it in that time. Althoguh this is also a good thing as well as a bad thing. Because you need to spend alot of time on it means you get hours and hours of enjoyment from the same game every single day. Some problems that occur with this however are things such as you need to get a group of people who know what they are doing together to make any real progress later on in the game and if you do not have long periods of time to play you will find your progress extremely slow and teh game tedious. There are hundreds and hundreds of different paths that you can choose to take in your journey of Vana'diel and because it is not linear in any shape or form it is up to you which way you appraoch it. You can decide if you wish to level your character up, change its job, raise its skills, higher its crafts, make money and so much more. It is just like a real world. From the second you start you are surrounded by fellow adventurers who are all mainly people controlled apart from th NPC who can gve you missions and objectives to make your time in the world fun. Because of the huge variety of things that you are able to do means that you will need to ask the fellow adventurers around you for advice. Everyone in the servers are very kind and are always willing to help. The game encourages you to intergrate with each other which is a great way to bring people together because you can find out what is the best way to approach situations from the people who have experenced it before. A great feature to help you achieve this would be the way that you have a ? symbol by your name which enables players who have been their for a while to see that you are new. The second that i arrived in the game i noticed that i was in a huge world by looking at the map and it would take me a while to rise to the top. It gives you a nice little nudge in the right direction at the start but it does not give you any main tips or a lot of money to start with so you will need to go your own way in the world. On overall gameplay you do not need to do much in the form of effort because things such as attacks are automated all you need to do is give the instruction to start. There alot of different spells that you at your disposal which have a variety of effects from protection and enhancing spells to stat lowering and damage spells. They are all limited to the job that you have got and you have to buy them. Because of te variety of spells and abilities that your characters can obtain and learn as you level means you have to pay close attention to the battle and pick the perfect time for you to use them. I'm afraid to say that the graphics are not as good as expected for an xbox 360 game but due to the fact that it is just a converted PC game then they are quite good because they are all linked and it is a 4 year old game. Alot of the monsters look the same with just different names which is kind of boring as you feel as you are fighting the same things all the time but on the other hand you have to be careful because some monsters have the same appearance but have a giant improvement on strength. Some of the music in the game can get very annoying if you spenda large amount of time in one place but if you spread out across the world then the music can be enjoyable. They have got peaceful songs for quiet less dangerous paces and fast paced and rampant songs inmore dangerous ones. On value for money i do not feel as though that it should be as dear a month because that is an extremely expensive game that could do with the monthly cost lowered or completely abolished. Overall though i would be happy to pay this price for an extremely addictive and exiting game that challenges you at every turn.
ITS A MUST HAVE!!!!!! 
