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Game is OK, CE is decent

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Vanguard itself is your typical MMO. More often than not you're given tasks to defeat a certain number of enemies or to collect a certain number of an item and, just like all other MMOs, this entails the vast majority of what you'll be doing.

There are some exceptions, but they are the exception. It's pretty standard for the genre.

The technical performance of VG has improved significantly. The game stopping performance problems are long gone.

The CE has some decent extras, and considering the price that you get it for it is certainly worth it so long as you're okay with the game play itself. In fact, I would suggest not bothering with the purchase of the boxed retail copy of VG unless it's the CE.

I'm fairly burned out on the repetitive nature of the MMORPG genre as a whole so I'll leave my comments at this.

Rehashing Old Games

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Seems like Vanguard is just a rehash of WoW with some of EQ/EQ2 mixed in. It helps get rid of the boredom of playing the same quests over and over in WoW, but these quests get old aftewr a while also. The only new area I noted was the diplomacy. It is kinda interesting, but becomes a grind after a while.

Pass on it!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: November 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Absolute Crap game. It's sad that a game released in the time of Massive MMO's is even allowed. Cannnot hold a candle to LoTRO or WoW.

mmm...mmm...good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 16
Date: March 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

i have to admit it smelled really great! very savory too! taste just like chicken...

Another mmo with a few things different but right!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: March 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

(Edits)(Was) a nice break from the normal WoW or EQ2. (Did not) hold me over till Conan. (After two months I went back to WoW - not enough people were playing the game.)

Dont waste your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

graphics are very good and taxings *gf8800* but worth it

pve was fun but not a lot of end game content, grinding and standard quest just like eq but with more push towards quest for gear/exp, took me 2 months to get to lvl 50

game is hackable or at least it was 6 months ago, SOE did nothing about this cept temp ban

pvp is broke,just about every class has a "I win" button, 90% of the time who ever gets the jump wins

To me VG is nothing but a cash cow for SOE that was released 6 months too earily, it came out, they fixed some of the major bugs but left alot of minior bugs and with every patch they put out that tried to fixed the bugs, they would end up fixing 2 or 3 bugs but creating a dozen new ones *anyone remember when the paldians could spam redimtion, I remember it did around 1.5k dmg and had no refreash timer and this bug lasted for at least a month* I was on a pvp server think of the hell that bug caused. the game is missing just about all the good stuff that made eqI great and eqII so/so *eqI/eqII from 5 years ago*

A COPY OF OTHER SOE GAME'S

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 34
Date: January 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I TRYED THE GAME. I HAVE A OLD 3.2 P4,3000 RAM AND A GEFORCE NIVDA 62OO CARD AND BROADBAND. I CAN NOT GET THE GAME TO PLAY RIGHT FOR ME (LAG AND BUG'S ETC.).ITS A GAME MADE UP OF OTHER SOE GAMES, YEAH I PLAYED THEM ALL, BUT THIS GAME GIVE ME THE MOST PROBLEM'S ,OUT OF ALL THE SOE GAME'S I HAVE PLAYED. I THINK MY 3 STARS IS HIGH FOR THIS GAME.I HOPE THAT THE NEW GAME, FROM THE MAKERS OF GUILD WAR DUE OUT IN JUNE OR JULY WILL BE GOOD GAME.

Mostly good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is a blast, it takes the best parts of EQ and WoW and puts them together in one it seems. The crafting system is the ~best~ I have seen in any game such as this, and everything seems pretty seamless. There are only a few things I have wrong with this game. First, a few relatively simple quest bugs appear to go unfixed, but I didn't find anything that stopped me from playing. The second is the way they do beast races... ugh. They basically just put an animal head on a completely human body, not even a tail! Even if you don't play one of them and don't want to, it completely ruins immersion to see something that looks like a thundercat running around. EQ2 and WoW both do the non-human races much better.

Beautiful indepth game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great game, massive, beautiful, best mmo out currently, just needs a little more content which they are adding in each patch.

This review is just for this edition.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm not even going to talk about gameplay. I put that review on the regular version of this game. I will just talk about this package.

It's a very nice box, looks great on your shelf.

The art book is too small, I was let down. The art is great, but it's on tiny pages and half of the book has lore written in it. Less text, more art on bigger pages please.

The in-game cloak was cool at first but is a waste. The cloaks were originally decent at lower levels but the stats dropped. You will randomly get a cloak out of 3 possible options, adventuring, diplomacy or crafting. Overall the cloak was a let down like the art book.

The guild trophy, who the heck knows as it's barely getting added next week! Look at the date I wrote this and look at the date this game launched! Right now it's an ugly wooden trophy board that can't be dropped. It WILL have 3 different buffs, unlike the cloaks you are supposed to be able to choose which sphere the guild buff helps. It will be a small buff for all of your guildies that are online. It can go in a guild house, no guild HALL required. That's a good thing, guild halls are a lot of work. I think this trophy might actually work out for us!

Trial keys...well the game was very unstable at launch so everyone I gave a buddy key to quit. I still have some saved, but they are working on a free trial now. It was never really worth it.

Three months of station access was cool. It lets you look at certain stats on their vgplayers site. It's cool, but the stats are often incorrect. In the end this isn't anything special. Another let down.

The audio CD is great, but there were more audio tracks released on fan sites pre-release that couldn't fit on the disc. Slightly let down by that, but it's a great CD! You'll like it!

Cloth map is cool, but it's stiff cloth with cheap print. It's not impressive, but it's cool to have. I've never used it for anything, but that's me. If you were hoping for an in-depth impressive cloth map you'll be let down by it, but it's still decent.

Honestly, I regret purchasing it at launch. I rated the stars for the gameplay because it specifically asks about the GAME. I'd rate this package as 2 stars.

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