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Don't Buy This

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: June 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is without a doubt the worest attempt at stategy and RPG. The box of this game depicts massive armies slugging it out. I don't know how this is possible when you can only create a maximum of 28 units in this game.. Thats pretty sad when compared to todays standards. The AI is also nonexistant. I had only purchased this game because it was an Everquest product and I know that they are popular. This is definately a game to be left on the shelf of the store and regarded as nonsense. The makers of EverQuest should stick to RPG and not try to make a niche for themselves in strategy.

Oh, look, it's Warcraft III with the ID filed off!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: August 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Honestly, it's just insulting that this is being passed off as original in any way. A glance at the graphics and then at the features list show it's more or less identical to Warcraft III. What's more, there's no Norrathian flavor to be found -- this game isn't EverQuest, it's not Warcraft ... who is supposed to buy it, I have no idea.

Enough with the relentless spinning off of new products, Sony. Concentrate on making the core game better instead of giving us EQ RTS, EQ phone, EQ Palm Pilot, EQ on PS2, EQ on Gameboy, EQ checkers, EQ jacks, EQ belly button lint ...

Lords of Everquest: This seems oddly familiar ...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: November 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Oh, that's right, I already played this game. It was Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft III, one of the most successful games of all time, and it took Sony a whole year to put out possibly the most blatant knockoff of a computer game since, well, all the clones of Blizzard's Diablo II.

Everything from the feature lists on the back of the boxes -- which are almost point-for-point identical -- to the models, the interface, the campaigns and all the rest, just scream that SOE either thinks EverQuest players don't play any other games and won't realize, or that Warcraft players are so addicted, they want to play even shoddy knockoffs like this.

As for its Everquest connections, it would be nice if there were any -- the storyline for this game makes no sense with EQ lore, despite claims to the contrary, and indeed is mostly a compilation of what seems cool about EverQuest from a 5 minute glance at what the game has to offer. It's not worth picking apart the game's "lore" bit by bit, but suffice it to say, the notion that this is an EverQuest tie-in is insulting. Even the EQ tie-in game able to be played on telephones is more true to the MMORPG than this drek.

If you have any desire to pick this up, drop it like a hot potato and pick up one of the deservedly best-selling games of all time: Warcraft III. It's the real deal, it's better-balanced and designed, its graphics are sharper, and its storyline actually makes sense.

A Festering Pile of Mediocrity with a Dash of Apathy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: December 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'm actually in shock that this game was released. Regardless of the investment in development, Sony should have looked at the final product, cancelled the whole project, and swept it under the rug.

Let's get specific, shall we?

Storyline:

Utterly uninspired, rehashed, redone, predictable, and dull. Voice acting so awful you'd swear it was intentional. With four years of world-building in the Everquest franchise, you'd think they could make up something at least passable. Wrong.

Graphics:

So terrible that it's difficult to comprehend that this game isn't something you bought three years ago and forgot about, then found in the bottom of a drawer. Units are awkward, poorly crafted, unoriginal pieces of dung that don't withstand any scrutiny.

It isn't so much the painfully low polygon count on units as the poor artwork that led such things to exist. I've heard that a lot of companys are outsourcing programming work overseas to bottom dollar workers, but I didn't know that applied to artists and designers. It's painful to look at a "hero" unit with a giant smile frozen on his one-polygon face while he laments the death of his closest friend in a melodramatic tone.

Gameplay:

Unintuitive, tedious, and one-dimensional. There is no need for strategy. Simply select all your units and send them at the enemy, then pick your nose like a slack-jawed dullard and watch for several minutes as the overwhelmingly stupid AI eventually kills something in spite of itself.

Units wander aimlessly in circles while other units blindly flail at them from behind. Troops stampede recklessly to persue their foes to whatever end. I would estimate that the unit AI took approximately three minutes to jot down on the back of a cocktail napkin at 2:00 AM after consuming about a gallon of vodka directly out of a plastic bottle.

Interaction with the environment? Nonexistent. Despite some awkward attempts at eye candy, it's almost entirely meaningless in terms of affecting strategy.

Sound:

Turn it off. Enough said.

Summary:

Everything about this game has been copied from somewhere else. Most of its game mechanics are ripped directly from Warcraft III. Unfortunately, Sony lacks the talent of Blizzard. They lack the attention to detail, they lack the standards of quality, and they lack the vision.

My question to Sony is this: If you're going to do something that's already been done, and do it so poorly, why do it at all?

This game is a blatant money-grab. Sony is banking on the uninformed consumer and die-hard Everquest player to buy it without thinking.

Don't prove them right. If you need a RTS game, go buy Warcraft III. If you already own it, go play it again. If you want Warcraft III to have that "Everquest" feel, punch yourself in the groin, stab yourself in the eye with a pencil, and play Warcraft III. Just don't buy Lords of Everquest. It brings a new definition to the word "Pain."

Buy Warcraft 3 instead folks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 15
Date: January 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Lords of Everquest is obviously an attempt for Sony to get revenge on Blizzard since Blizzard is taking their Warcraft world into the Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game Genre(a genre that Everquest put on the map). Only problem is...Blizzard knows how to translate Warcraft(Real Time Strategy Game)into an MMORPG...unlike Sony who obviously does NOT know how to translate Everquest into an RTS game.

I laughed at my friend when he showed me he bought this game for his PC. He was like "Shut up, how was I supposed to know this game was garbage!!" LOL! Funny stuff.

I suggest you only buy this game if you can get it for under 20 dollars otherwise invest your money into WarCraft.

5 stars or one star? hmm look at the conflict here!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: December 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

How interesting it is that people either LOVE this game (give it 5 stars) or HATE this game (give it one star).

I find it very strange that there is a long string of successive GOOD reviews of this game. I really makes me wish I had a ton of money I could spend to investigate who these good reviewers are, because having just read them all very closely, I have some strong suspicions.

Why? Simple - this game, as any TRUE RTS lover will tell you, SUCKS!!!!!!!!

Look, Sony does NOT deserve a dime for this title, not a dime.

They bribed Everquest players into buying it by offering them a guaranteed spot in Everquest 2 beta if they purchase LoE. Why? Simple - the Everquest community is for the most part a very hardcore gaming community who knowwhat's up. They don't just play EQ, they are the hardcore gamers who know all about games like warcraft. They know how to find out if a title is worth buying before they make the purchase.

The word on the streets is this, my gaming friends:

Lords of Everquest is a quick money grab campaign; an attempt by Sony to quickly get a piece of the RTS pie, and then run with the cash while all the dissapointed gamers moan and groan about what a terrible title it is they bought. How can they accomplish this ultimate goal when people come to places like amazon only to read negative after negative reviews? They can't. Hence the 5 star reviews you've read. Look at them closely. Look at how cliche' they are, how utterly adolescent. They were written that way for a reason, if you ask me. To se4em believable. Look close, don't let 'em fool ya.

Do not buy into these good reviews you read. Do not buy this game. I just don't nkow what else to say.

Sony did this?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First off let me just say that the only reason I bought this game was for the invite to EQ2 beta... Now then, after loading it up and playing it for all of maybe 8 minutes, I turned it off and went back to CoD. I have been playing EQ since 99' and i have to say that in 4 years I have never really been disapointed at Sony. That changes today. I can't for the life of me figure out why a company that is making as much as they are on EQ, would waste so much time and money developing a title such is LoEQ... Playing it has made me anticipate EQ2 more, for the fact that I need a good game to wash out the vile thoughts I have had about how to best get rid of it. One thought was throwing it off a building, although I would feel for the people at the bottom, having crap rain down on them from above..

This game was a waste of time, not so much money for the fact that there is a beta invite in the package, but this game is by far the worst game I have played since "Real War". And another thing..dont you think that if you can only register your product for the beta one day, 23 hours and 59 minutes, that the site will be lagged out or down most of the day? That sounds like a trap, like a gamble, they say you are sure to get a slot when you register, but whats to stop them from saying " The server was up, but you thousands of people just forgot to do it, no, this is a gamble, be warned... There is no guerantee anyone will get into the Beta of EQ2 this way. I hope they take into account long time users of EQ, I'm still playing it, even after all these years.

This game is horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: January 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

i cant believe i wasted 30 dollars on this trash. i thought this would be better than warcraft3. WRONG!

if you want a good RTS game get Warcraft3 and/or Warcraft3 Frozen Throne. Just dont pick up this trash because if you do, you will be sadly disappointed that you lost 30 bucks.

Warcraft 3 clone with improvements

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I played the demo for this game (hence why I can review it before it is released). Lords of Everquest is basically a Warcraft3 clone. The concept, the name of the buildings, even down to the sayings the characters say. Granted, the animation is better and Sony did improve on a few things from W3, but it is a clone. The interface is easier than W3, but I haven't seen any story scenes so I can not judge the climax footage vs. W3. Basically, if you already own W3, getting this game is pointless since it is the same thing. It is nothing like EQ, Sony just slapped that name on it trying to get sales.

Really sucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: November 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this game is boring crappy and not worth my time or anyone elses the multiplayer and the campain sucks and there is no skrimish the battles are confusing and there are no builders in the army. to make things worse there is only one resorce and the game iself emits an aura of boredom.

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