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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*

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.

Average Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 17
Date: January 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Not a ton of fun, but fun. Its very buggy and laggy but this is to be expected for the first few weeks of any MMO. Its a kind of melt of all other Sony MMOs into one game. It has elements from SWG & EQ2 as well as little things from several other Sony MMOs. I was really expecting better, but it is still an ok game. So unless you already have a Station Access Subscription I would suggest you wait until April 24th for The Lord of the Rings Online (Which is a much better and polished game even at this stage of development), and if you have Station Access I would suggest you get the regular edition instead of the limited/collectors edition. So in conclusion:

- OK Game
- Tons of Lag
- Buggy but to be expected early in any MMO
- Collectors/Limited edition not worth it unless you are a hardcore gamer with
a Station Access Subscription

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.

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.

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.

vangaurd

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: March 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

even with all the bugs in this game it is still far superior to any mmorpg i have played, including eq1, eq2, wow, daoc, ao, uo, swg

Pretty Decent

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: March 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Ifyou started the game on launch day you could tell that SOE pushed Sigil into releasing this game before it was ready. It really needed bout 2-4 more months to review the feedback of the final beta and polish and balance things.

The game is now over a month old and has grown alot since launch day.

This game is definately not for those whom want instant gradification or fast leveling. It is designed to be a challenge. This game is not solo-play friendly and is designed more for those whom like group play. If you try this game out, I highly recommend that you level a toon to at least level 16 to get a feel for hwo things are. Most races dont get good skill sets till level 15.

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...

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.

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