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4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I saw some outdated reviews for this game, so I think I should put up a more updated one...
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PROS:
*Aside for the absent of stats, the game does not differ much from AC1. It still has the great allegiance system. In fact, you can tune in to the allegiance channel and look for hunting parties, trades or simply advises!

*Many quests to do. Some of them are for soloing while others were best done as a group. And its fellowship system is much better as it shares XP more evenly and you can buff others as a group!

*Programmers listened to our advises and worked very hard to make this a better game. For example, they fixed the chat system so now it works great. Also, they removed the lvl cap so now you can go beyond lvl 50.

*Since the merging of the servers, now there are on average 1000 people on line most of the time in each server.

*Ability to ride across the land

*Ability to own pets (if you are a ranger).

*Option to do PvP and KvK.

*Players in the game a generally nice -- unlike everquest where no-one is helping other =)

*The game is relatively inexpensive

*Finally, there has been rumors saying that the gameplay will become more and more like AC1 in the future.

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CONS:
*Lags are bad, and too much rubber banding. To avoid this, you have to really turn down the graphic.

*Monsters drop bad loots. Most good stuff you have to craft yourself.

*No shops, lack of NPCs.

*They change the skill tree and skill stats in the last update, which required me to re-distribute all my XP's. Luckly, they give you skill reset so you don't have to untrain anything. (You did get 50,000 gold to compensate for this trouble though)

*Lack of visual effects for melee characters.

*Maybe it is just me, but with melee paragon trained, I still cannot hit monsters often enough.

*Lack of character design.

*Instructions on some skills are not detailed enough.

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In summary, I think this game is becoming more and more like AC1 with better graphics, and it is definitly a good game to buy. It would be even better if they have the stat system of AC1, however.

A massively multiplayer ghost town.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

-1 For 2 hours I walked around in the AC2 world. How many people did I come across? 12... 12 people in 2 hours and at a peak time in the big cities.
-1 As far as content goes, AC2 is a massive world with alot of cities and towns and maybe 1 or 2 inhabitants of each city. Lets not go into the towns.. they're at a whopping 0 population.
-1 In town you can: Talk to the sole inhabitant and get a quest, or try to make gear at the smithy... THATS IT. Oh, and chat.
+ 1 Graphics and sound are great, and potential is huge. The games new, I thnk that's why all the problems are present. A few months from now, it may be worth the money you could've spent on something else.
+ 1 The quests, while relatively straightforward, "get this to use on that" taskings, do tend to pull you in enough to make you want to complete them. I really hope they can make the questing more complex in the future.
All in all AC2 could be a good game, and with a few patches here and there, may make the grade. But with so many games with more content.. (even being able to walk into a building would be nice), the 40-50 bucks could be spent on something better.

Not a whole lot going on in this game.Graphics are about it.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Well, these people weren't lying when they said this game lacks content. Yes, there are quests, which are usually given by a lone NPC in the middle of a vast and huge city...full of absolutely nothing. Zero. Zilch. No vendors, rarely a PC. Yes, I am aware of the storyline, but to me that's not enough to compensate for utterly boring gameplay. Quests are given to you by potions, statues, and the rare NPC. You hardly see people and when you do they are usually crammed into a dungeon on the same quest as you. Soloing after 15 seems to be a real pain. Yes, the graphics are stunning. The developers should raise their minimum requirements because if anyone tried to play this game with those specs they would have to lower every last thing graphically to turn it down to the equivalent of EQ, the original. Playing well above the minium requirements is nice but be sure to have a fast connection, as dial-up trying to push that is like trying to cram a basketball through a straw. Bash, get loot...if it's something you need, keep it, if not, keep it for crafting or turn it into gold. Do quest. Repeat this...over and over and over and over. It's basically a godly looking Diablo....

Not what you think.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you were a fan of AC1 you are going to be sorely dissapointed. Your character will not be unique as they will have no attributes and the 2 stats that you get are the same for everyone at your level. You pick skills, but a much more limited number of skills, and every character cannot pick every skill. The only two types of quest are "kill all of the monsters on this list" or "touch all of these bases". The dungeons are not complex and all quests can be easily completed in a day without any form of organization or planning. It is visually stunning, but they have turned a classic rpg title into a glorified arcade game and if you were expecting better it flat out sucks.

Better than Asheron's call 1?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: October 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

A lot of players coming from Asheron's call 1 will be disappointed with the changes in the game. There are no NPC's which means no shopping. No spell components, no fletching arrows. I myself missed many of the aspects of AC1. However, after a few full days of playing I've gotten used to the difference and come to terms with the fact that AC2 is a different game! and a darn good one!
New players will find AC2 very easy to get into and graduate from n00biehood. Best graphics of all the MMORPGS out and a great storyline are the strong points of this game.

A great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 17
Date: October 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Asheron's Call II is promising to be one of the epic on-line games. Better than Asherson's Call 1, Anarchy Online, Everquest, Ultima Online, this game has it all. A great interface, story line, super graphics, crafting, and very playable. If you have played these games a while, try the kingdom vs. kingdom servers, they are treat.

Great eye candy, but gameplay is so boring.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: October 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The game itself is amazingly beautiful, the graphics are superb. But, when it comes to gameplay, Its horrible mindless and boring. For melee, you just sit there whacking at the monster and then hitting a number key everyonce and awhile (Sounds like daoc, eh?), .. wait a minute... mages are the same thing! Just from a distance.. and.. well, so are archers. This game is so horrible game play wise... but, with graphics is so awesome.

Down in Flames.........

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 14
Date: December 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is so simple compared to AC1, if you liked AC1 you will not like this. If youve been living in a cave and think DAoC is a good game, this might be for you. I feel like ive been ripped off.

Fun Fun Fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: March 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Many people are saying that this game is absolutely terrible. This is not the case. The things they say, are that the game has NO content, and the game is unpopulated. Okay, firstly the game IS unpopulated. It's a fact, there may be as many as 500 people on at one time. This is good and bad. Firstly, its good because, no one is there to camp the hunting grounds. This can be difficult for those people who need a group to hunt effectively (archers for example) however, if you are hunting in a relatively good area, there is likely at least one or two other people there. This is bad because it can occasionally leave you feeling lonely, or like your not playing on the internet at all, but all by yourself. Dealing with content, the entire point of the game is to discover why the people of Dereth went into hiding(prologue: Basically worldwide cataclysm occurs, everyone hides.) This leads you all over the world as you go into different dungeons to uncover a piece of the puzzle. No content? Wrongo.
Ok. This game has multiple pros that make the inexistant cons...inexsitant. Firstly you can craft your own items. This is awesome. You create your own armor and weapons out of things you find on monsters. Also this game is a snap to learn, you can be hunting monsters and crafting items and even complete your first vault quest(the places you have to go to learn about the destruciton of dereth)the very first time you log in. Also the first 15 levels are relatively easy, enabling you to get a good handle on the game before you go fight the big bad guys. The graphics are beautiful. The graphics allow you to see your reflection in water, for example, which, I must say, is absolutely amazing.
Now the few problems I could discern. Note: the real problems,not the problems everyone who playedbeta, and gave this game one star. Honestly, they expected a game reasy for retail when they rated it, when it purrely still had a few months to go.

For the first few months, none of the races had any kind of headgear, this was kind of weird, I also found it dissapointing. This is resolved now.
In AC1 you had a stamina and mana bar for managing your strength while fighting and your magic casting capabilities, in AC2 both these things are controlled by Vigor now, which while simpler, makes me sad, because I liked having stamina and mana more, because it allowed you to protect yourself up with magic, then jump right into combat, instead of having to wait to regenerate like in Ac2.
AC2 uses a skill tree for advancement in fighting. This is different than Ac1 where you chose most of your skills in character creation and you used experience to progressively advance your skills, you were absolutely unique from everyone else. In AC2 you are very likely playing a very similar character to the mage across the road. Don't get me wrong though, there is great potential for originality, but most people are hesitant to treck the new paths and leave old standards in the dust.
Having said that YAY YAY Play Away!

It is still only in Beta!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: October 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Ok, I have purchased many items from Amazon and never bothered to make a review until now. The sheer number of people here making reviews have absolutely no clue what a Beta test is all about. The main reasons for a Beta are to ensure servers are properly load tested and fully network optimized, to ensure all core game mechanics work, to ensure skills are properly balanced, to ensure Quests function properly and to get some feedback on limited content.

Only a fool would think that AC2, as it exists currently in Beta, is the product that will go Live in the coming months. All content is not available in Beta so as not to give the farm away prior to going Live. We are only seeing limited amounts of what is to come.

As an AC1 Beta tester and long time player, I certainly see differences. AC2 is taking a much different approach than its predecessor. While I agree it has been dumbed down as far as character development goes, there is still enough here to entertain. The world is indeed dead, they made a huge point in mentioning that, the idea is for us to rebuild it. Seems some people missed that point. Never before has an MMORPG started with such a clean palette and invited its playerbase to make of the world as they will. Novel concept if you are able to wrap your mind around it.

Anyway, listen to the doom and gloom crowd at your own risk. While certainly a different experience, this game promises to bring some novel twists to the Fantasy MMORP Genre. It would be a shame to miss out solely on the review of a product still in development. You gotta ask yourself why, if these people hate the game so much, are they here reviewing a game they just pre-ordered? Hmm, curious isn't it?

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