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THIS COULD EASILY BE THE GREATEST MMORPG YET!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: June 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game has just about everything all the MMORPG of the past does (housing, guilds, cool quest, spells and items) and so much more! It has a slick school system, that allows you to do everything from be the strongest paladin ever to owning your own store or being a politician plus this game lets you PLAY AS FLYING DRAGONS!!! It also has a great cinematic battle system, a multiple layer character engine with millions of customization options, a cool living vs. the undead story it's even being designed for cell phone support! So this Fall, don't fall for the hype of those pretty Sony Station games with little to no innovation namely games like Everquest 2, get the true next gen MMORPG, Horizons!!! The company behind this gem has been developing THIS GAME ALONE for FOUR YEARS!!!

Dragons at last!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: August 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I've watched how EQ developed, even bought it at one point though never played it, only almost. Why? Because it lacked the key elements I've long wanted in an MMORPG. With Horizons, you can finally choose a race based on appearance rather than abilities or classes you can select. That's right, no class restriction-based character creation. Top that with being able to go from a mason to a blacksmith to a warrior to a wizard to a healer to a scout and anything inbetween or anything else that suits your fancy. You can do that by joining different schools rather than your character being stuck as a particular class from the start. Don't like fighting? Kick back in town as a craftsman, smith, enchanter, builder. Want nothing more than to beat the ever lovin' ... out of everything evil? Grab a sword and leap out into the wilderness to seek your objects of aggression therapy.

They also have a general count for the number of combinations of the various parts that just swords can be made in. Let me explain first though by saying you have various parts to every sword. Blade, hilt, designs on them, tassels on the hilt, effects on the blade, sockets on the blade for extra goodies you can change when needed, among some other things. Now, keep in mind that there is say 15 blade styles, 5 hilts, 5 tassels, 20 socket items, etc. The base number of variations is over 3 million. That doesn't even account for what they are certain to add later as the game progresses. Think of that...over 3 million different swords. SWORDS! That doesn't even touch ANYTHING else from other weapons to all kinds of armor to buildings to all the other gear you may want to have. Needless to say, this will surpass anything I've heard of before, both what's already out and what is still as-of-yet unreleased.

Now, how bout them Dragons, hmm? !!!^_^!!! One MAJOR plus to me, that it is! They haven't shared entirely that much yet, but the detail on the Dragon PCs is amazing enough. They will also be a somewhat alien character in the style you play with, considering just the body shape difference from a standard humanoid character. They will have breath weapons, neat plus of course. Even bigger, they will be able to fly once you advance enough. No separate mode of transport, just a natural ability to fly. I won't even go into the fact that you'll be able to build that stereotypical horde with items for greater power as a Dragon. Oh, and when you make a Dragon, you can customize the colors in very fine detail. You could almost say you can customize your colors down to each scale, but even the most meticulous would find that a bit excessive. It even shows you what your Dragon will look like in later stages of maturity and advancement (when you get bigger, to say it simply) so you won't make a really great looking hatchling that looks, well, stupid as an ancient.

I am *SO* getting this game!

New ideas - great Dev team - super game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 17
Date: September 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

There are some very good new ideas going into this game, as well as some beautiful graphics and some of the best sound in an mmorpg ever.

I'd highly recommend giving it a try!

Just About Everything You Wanted in a MMORPG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 63 / 82
Date: September 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

True, the MMORPG scene is very very crowded. So, why Horizons?

I can't do this game justice in the allowed 1000 words, but here are some of the (publicly-available) highlights:

- EVERYTHING in the game can be crafted. Start with the necessary weapons, armor, tools. Add structures, communities, castles, machines, bridges, portals, hedges, statues, etc. etc.
- CHARACTER GROWTH - Not locked into any "job". Change schools to advance different skills. MANY different schools, including "prestige" schools with prerequisites for membership. No level caps! Tons of skills.
- MAKE A DIFFERENCE in the world - Help reclaim lands from the enemy. Free subjugated races (so they add to the nine playable races available at launch). Build houses & communities. Build "empire structures" and "artifacts" that help your community or everyone.
- HIGHLY DETAILED CRAFTING SYSTEM - Wow! Obtain formulas, acquire the proper skills, harvest over 100 different types of resources, (Wood, sap, flax, essence, carrots, iron, silver, wheat...) Obtain the proper tools, Use the proper machinery, make the item. Enhance the item. Now sell it, consign it, build with it, trade it, etc.
- CHALLENGING REAL-TIME COMBAT - Not just "click and wait until the random-number generator decides on a victor". Learn special combat skills and use them at the proper time in combat.
- STUNNING VISUALS - Real weather. Layered textures. Fluid cloth motion. Spellcasters can create jaw-dropping weather affects seen by all players. Player-dragons can take flight to reach floating cities. Huge surface world with areas in the sky and below ground. Hundreds of animations per player race.
- AMAZING SOUND - Rich cinematic score. Impressive sound effects. Combat, race, and town-specific scores.

This game is a must have

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 33
Date: October 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Am beta testing this game and it simply rocks.

It has better graphics than EQ, SWG, EQ2.
It has more advanced tradeskills than EQ, SWG, EQ2.
It is both solo casual gamer friendly as well as having group and community goals and challenges.
If you don't like PVP and griefers, this game is for you since there is none.
So much to do, so many things to own including houses and property and the ability to build towns.

Don't miss out on playing this game from first day of launch.

I've read some of these reviews

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 34
Date: October 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The graphics aren't so hot, the game is fairly boring. I have to question the people writing these reviews. I got a totally different impression playing the beta.

Great game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 22
Date: October 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

since im beta testing Horizons i can actually write a review.
there are some minor problems

it sometimes exits me out of the game while im playing
lag at times (but what online game doesnt lag)?

but as far as i can see this is a great game and i am 99.9% sure i will buy it.

or maybe World of Warcraft

Not sure what kind of drugs these positive reviewers are on

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 20
Date: November 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

But this game is far from ready for release. There are horrible bugs still in gameplay, I cant even make a dragon at the moment. The graphics are excellant, for a video game 5 years ago. The animation is not so good as well. They need another 6 months at least for beta before this is ready for release.

FYI..I am doing the European beta.

EQ re-hash with no dungeons or content

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 20
Date: November 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'm in the beta test, don't be fooled by any hype. This game has NO original concepts, you can fight boring computer monsters only, and there are no dungeons only the same boring landscape everywhere, hell your character can't even swim! Combat is so simplistic you can get up and go get a snack and it has no effect on the outcome, your auto-attack is just as good as any other power. ALL RACES & CLASSES ARE THE SAME, they are no different except in appearance. Your level 20 fighter will be the same as every other level 20 fighter, ALWAYS! Save your money!

Not recommended for experienced MMORPG'ers

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 26
Date: November 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It's about 2 weeks before release and the current beta version is horribly buggy. Framerates (on my high end computer) are pathetic (averaging about 15 - occasionally dipping below 5fps). Gameplay is, to be generous, very boring and very tedious. Graphics are good, but not great. Character development is shallow, all characters are basically the same. One bright spot is crafting - which is somewhat deep - but mindnumbingly boring.

I'd wait a couple months before I bought this dog. Maybe after an update or two it will be worth buying.

This would be a good beginner ORPG for a young teen or someone who has never experienced MMORPG's before. Experienced gamers should avoid Horizons.

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