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After taking it home creating my account, installing it and various whatnots I was ready to go, this my friends is where my journey through Tyria begins, read on.......
Gameplay 9.5/10
From the account login page you know you are in for something special. After customising your class, sex, armour colour, hair style etc etc, it's jus all fun fun from there. Our journey begins in Ascalon a huge castle town that is bustling with life (other players, who on the most part might I add are very helpful for beginners) there are jobs galore to find or ask about in the shape of "quests), doing quests earns you experience points and or items some of those can be rare or hard to find. Many towns abound to visit or people to talk to in various out of the way places to get those extra goodies. There are also sidequests where to get a certain armour type our hero must kill "X" amount of beasts and get their limbs or other whatnots and trade them for said items.
Once a player has a full account they can quest with other players, which is great especially on those jobs that you are just not that strong enough yet to do. The story is great and stays on track throughout the game so you are never lost as to what is happening in and around the world. Controls are very easy to use when fighting or just hanging in town with friends. Another great noteworthy addition i found was that with the game purchase that is it never does the player need to pay an ongoing subscription each month or for "Uber cool items", one payment and its yours for lifethe only time a player needs to pay any $$ is if they want the upgrades (thats for another review my fine friends).
Graphics 10/10
Just love them, hands down the best of any mmo I have seen thus far. From the sky with moving clouds at times to rain to snow awesome. With the addition of "First Person" view the graphics and landscape are truly epic. Also noteworthy is the beasts or enemies in the game some of them are simply amazing and very creative from the likes of the feral lloking "Grawl" to the "Giant Worms" and then there's my mate the "Angry Bull" just outside of Ascalon, awesome truly beautiful and yet again I must say this with another game. Truly a feast for the eyes.
Sound 9.5/10
From the intro sequences to ambient environmental sounds to just enemies dying, everything is truly spectacular. When I first fired this baby up I had all my settings in audio on full, I felt I just "had to" hear everything, one might be inclined to say "Fully Imerse" myself in this lil bad boy. Thus that's what I did, the music is breathtaking if at certain times a little repetitive but that we can overlook. When the "#$%^" goes down though, woah you had better believe it when I say "You can feel it". Birds in the trees, "Moa Birds" in the forests to jus about any animal created makes sounds and the enemies do also (which is good for that sneak attack plan hehe). Beautiful soundtrack overall I must say.
Replayability 10/10
So much to see, so much to do. I mean it when I say these things too, there truly is alot to behold in this "Wonder Box" of a game, it's very easy to go from 1hr to 10hrs without noticing and that's because the player does get the feeling that they are in a living breathing active world. With the addition of "Titles" there is even more to do in the game. Titles are earnt by doin a certain amount of things either being drunk for "X" amount of time to as much as slaying a particular type of beast so many times. There is definately alot too keep the player coming back again and again for sure.
Overall 9.5/10
After such a raving review one might be asking themselves why the 9.5?? Ahhh very easy my friends see the one small thing that did bug me about the game was the fact that there are no offline modes or tweaks etc etc. This being a trivial thing at the end of the day really, but still my score stands as is. Seriously though if you are sick of your console rpg's and your endless rehashes of FF remakes and whatnots then this might be the thing for you, with an in depth charcter creation system with skills, waepons etc. there is much to keep a player enthralled and coming back for more even after many months. Especially when ther are allies/ friends to be made this really will open your gaming "3rd eye".
A huge thumbs up from me and a must have for any gamers library in my opinion. Go out and get you some "Grawl Hide".
Till next time my fellow gamers.
!!!Keep on gaming hardcore all!!!