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The Best PvP Game Out There

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 15
Date: April 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is the best game out there for people who want their own cities and for people who want to destroy other people's cities. The release was much better than I expected and the devs have been much more active in the community than I've seen in other games. The lvls are much easier to get than in the other mmorg I've played. If you can find a guild to join you'll enjoy a lot.

5 stars but NOT with Win ME/NVIDIA at this date

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 13
Date: April 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

OK I got talked into this game expecting the worst. I was told once you leave newbie land it was all PK/PVP. I started out playing with my WinME computer. My graphics just wouldn't keep up. I spent a lot of time waiting for my grey screen to go away which sometimes never did. So I upgraded my NVIDIA video drivers and it got worse! I later read that this was a known problem and they were working on it... and please don't upgrade your video driver if you aren't having problems... Doh! It was unplayable at this point. So I upgraded to WinXP and the game is now grand. There are some definate lag issues but I haven't died yet because of it and I don't think that is a normal state of the game.

Shadowbane

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: July 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Probably the worst online game I've played to date. I have played for 3 weeks now and have cancelled my subscription. Graphics are quite dated and lagg at times makes it unplayable. Oh and I cant forget the server crashes although less frequent now they still occur. Skip this title and buy something else

Review from a long time SB beta tester

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 14
Date: March 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Very cool game, finally a game for people who love pvp/gvg.
This game isnt about just running around killing people and power leveling its much more. Highly recommended.

Almost a good game-Buyer beware.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I posted the following on the official forum. The login system is currently broken, and has been since release. Should this condition change I will repost here.

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Maybe they could release a program that automatically tried to login to the server every few minutes, then inform me with some .wav file that it had actually logged in.

Something like a Homer Simpson, 'Yahoo!'

Or Han Solo from Star Wars. "I have a bad feeling about this."

Maybe something adapted from South Park. "I created the perfect game, with one login server, and five asses."

I expect a game to function at minimum levels after release, but I do expect it to function. Four days owning this game, two days actually able to play it. Every day I spend more than an hour trying to login, I expect them to add that to the end of my subscription, for failing to provide the service I am paying for.

Advertising a service, and then not delivering that service, is fraud.

Customer service

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: November 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Customer service people are just incompetent. No help at all. Very frustrating.

The game is a blast...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: April 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I played EQ and DAoC and am now trying SB. My computer is an Athlon 1.7, Gforce2mx and 256 MB Ram and I don't have any problems with lag. Graphics are, unlike many reviews state very nice.

Of course Sb doesn't have as much content as DAoC or EQ yet but it got many very fresh and new ideas. You won't get the feeling that you play another EQ clone!

In SB you won't spend 36 hours for one single level. Already my first evening in the game I made level 16 and after the second day I was 28. In a group you don't share the xp! It means that 30xp for a mob solo gives you 30 xp in a group of 10 people. So your XP will fly in a full group and it means that everyone is welcome to join a group!

There are hundreds of skills and there are many choices how to develop your character. Unlike other MMORPGs most characters are truely different and after 4 weeks of playing I still didn't group with every possible class/profession combination. There are so many interresting classes I still want to try out. No class is overpowered. Of course some are stronger than others but every MMORPG got balancing problems. Shadowbane seems to have the nicest approach. Since you level so fast you can just try another class without loosing much time. You won't spend 40 played days just to find out that you are gimped as in other MMORGPs!

Guilds are able to build cities, they choose the type of buildings, hire guards, trainers and merchants and instruct their merchants how much magic armor they should produce. It's nearly a mix of RTS. Guilds receive money from the income of their merchants and need to decide how to invest it further!

The game is pure PvP but it's not as bad as it sounds. I played EQ since it's release and got used to the additional risks in SB quickly. In opposite, the idea to be able to get rid of enemy guilds by destroying their city is quite refreshing after dealing for years with "ubber guilds". There are enough "good" players to keep control of the PKillers. Someone who randomly kills other people will be quickly on all "Kill On Sight" lists and will have a short live. And I didn't see many of them yet.
There are plans to allow serverwide wars... I'm sure that they will be a hell of fun.

The game is not finished, but which game is it? Everquest had horrible problems many weeks after release too and I waited 6 months for my gimped champion which got nerfed in DAoC after beta to be fixed before I quited. People complaing about such issues probably never played a MMORPG after release.

Shadowbane is the most refreshing game I have played since long time. I tried out Neocron, Eve Online and Earth & Beyond lately and no game was really fun to play compared to Shadowbane.

I'm addicted

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: October 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

All I can ask of a game is that it make me want to play it. Shadowbane does that so well that I'm forgetting what the real world looks like. Completely absorbing, I find myself learning new things each time I'm on. The grouping feature is a real pleasure, too, and I've made some good gaming friends. Shadowbane is complicated -- give yourself a good amount of time to cross the learning curve -- but once you've got the hang of it you'll be addicted as well.

Can't wait...playing the beta test.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 19
Date: November 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I'm playing in the Shadowbane beta test and it's great fun. A lot of hard core gamers, too! They're pushing the envelope with game features I've wanted for quite some time. ...When can I pre-order it on Amazon.com?!

Sweetness!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 14
Date: April 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome. The only people that won't like it are the ones that only tried one class or the ones that don't get a very high level character. I mean it's sweet because you can build your own city and steal from monsters and kill other people that try to kill your low level. Let's just say this game rules.

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