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Not perfect but oh so fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a buggy game. Everyone knows that. But it is one of the most fun games I've ever played. Its kept my intrest for over 4 years now. Also its free; so download it off the net and come give it a try!

From a Newbie at these mmorg games

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: October 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I kept hearing about the online playing games awhile back ago and had recently got a cable modem so i decided to buy a couple and try them out. I bought Ultima and shadowbane when it first came out. I ended up staying with shadowbane because it seemed to take more thought and detail into what you have to do. Ultima seemd more "kid-like" (i dont mean to offend anyone). I didnt seem to run into hardly any problems as most people for some reason. I also dont have any friends that play it but found it very easy to find help from others and had no trouble joining guilds and getting power leveled by them. Of course there were jerks on there but plenty of those in the real world also.Over all it was and addictive game that i got fully engulfed in and highly recopmmend it. I never did the trial but it doesnt do it justice.

Better ones out there

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: August 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Hi

I did the free trial for a couple of days..the interface is a nightmare..pretty bad graphics for a newer mmorpg.....tedious game play...I'll pass on this and go back to DOAC.

Don't bother unless you have a few dozen friends

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: May 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The game is fun, if you have a few dozen friends already ingame to watch over you. While the game protects players until level 20, you don't become viable in any of the serious combat situations until level 50. With experience, you can hit level 50 in a week; however, if you just start the game, it could take you close to a solid month.

This is not a light gaming experience at all. If you're looking for an MMOG to try out just for the sake of trying it out, I suggest City of Heroes or Dark Age of Camelot. Shadowbane is "advanced" MMOG gaming. It requires you like hunting and being hunted by other people, at all times and in all places, and being comfortable ending the playsession further behind than where you started.

That's why I gave it 2 stars. It's not a good all-around title. It's fun for a very specific type of player.

Shadowbane is a waste

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 16
Date: April 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've played Shadowbane since beta. It's a game with great potential, but its developers and programmers strive to fail in every aspect possible.

Shadowbane has been on the open market for over 1 year and it still performs worse than some games that are in beta1. For example, the engine has been running on pure cpu power. The software engineers failed to utilize graphics cards or sound cards.

SB.EXE instant crash errors, line of sight errors, pathing that doesnt even pretend to work properly, severe class balance issues that should've been addressed in beta, siege warfare on player build cities is a joke and only just recently have they implimented any sort of modification to it, constant class changes that keep you continuously rerolling characters because when UBI swings the "nerf bat"... they swing it hard, CCR/CSR's that fly by the seat of their pants without any regard for the players, nearly a complete lack of customer support, map casting, gold duping, blaytont favortism by the "Featured Character" GM's at "FC events" that distributed "phat lewt" to a very small handful of people on multiple occassions.

They released an expansion pack for Shadowbane while the main program itself was filled with bugs. They've opened several new servers and migrated characteres over with promises of "new and exciting adventure"... then executed an expert "cut and paste" job.

The quality of the graphics are very, very sad.

This game, and everything associated with it, is a waste of time and money. I'm never buying anything that involves Ubi Soft or Wolfpack Studios again.

Ignore the Negative Reviews ...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: March 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Sure, Shadowbane had a bad rough start. So did allot of other MMORPGs. The pressure was on Wolfpack (The developers) from not only Ubi (The distributor) but the public to release the game.
They not only released a PC version but also a Mac version for those sorry souls that dont have any games on their system anyway. (lol).

The games graphics arent spectacular because the game is solely CPU dependant. Its 3D hardware acceleration was not implemented at the time it was being created.

People with slow CPUs were able to run the game however the CPU was left to handle the graphics, the physics, the animations, everything!

Just recently in patch 2.0 Wolfpack is now moving into 3D acceleration and are now introducing the first update to their graphics.

heres a snippet:

"One of the performance problems we found with Shadowbane was that our client was solely CPU bound. To improve overall game performance, we are slowly moving some graphical features and processes to utilize the user's video card / GPU instead of the CPU. These moves will improve Shadowbane's overall performance and experience quality, especially for users with higher-end video cards.

The Shadowbane team is still working on these changes, so more and more graphical features and processes will begin taking advantage of the GPU instead of the CPU exclusively. In the end this will drastically improve game client performance."

Should you buy the game now? Why not? its only $4.99.
if you dont want to then goto shadowbane.com and download a trial version.

Give it a go. You'll like it.

By the way, the 2.0 patch isnt live on the regular servers just yet so if you want to see it you have to logon to the test server.

Shadowbane - Trial

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: February 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

After having experienced some nasty behavior from UBI before, I decided to download the free trial from their website before actually purchasing the full version of this game.

I'm glad I did.

The graphics are old, my computer and drivers are not, and even as a trial this game was a disapointment. Once the avatar was created, the progression was boring. I felt like I was playing the original PS version of Diablo all over again.

No thanks - I've moved beyond that stage.

The premise - the political manouvers that are possible with on-line play, and the interaction of the characters, is fantastic. The reality just isn't.

Playing solo is a joke

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: January 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I thought this game was going to be fun, but it was not. It was fun in the beginning when you could actually gain level kinda fast by yourself. Soon though, you realize that gaining fast levels by yourself is an impossibility. Instead you need to get in a group and just sit around while high levels kill everything for you. Hurray what a blast. Don't buy this game.

Very nice game, better than any other MMORPG out there.....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Well, I heard a lot about this game, and looked at a lot of reviews and screenies for it, and decided it was a good lookin game. So i decided to try it. This was a long time ago and im still playing. This game is still fresh and addicting!

You start off with the character creation screen, adding points and runes that affects your characters disciplines and skills for future times. You can pick a bunch of different races and 4 different classes which lead off into tons more when you hit lvl 10 and have to choose ur path. So you make your character and start off by noticing how everything on your interface is customizable! This is a great feature when you need to get stuff out of the way and move things around. The first few lvls are easy to gain by yourself but then you're going to need a group to level faster. once you leave the .:"Noob Isle":. (at lvl 20), you will need to join a guild. Finding guilds are rather easy. Just making your own guild is hard. If you want to do this, you need to probably need to be level cap, and you also need TONS of money. Once you are in a guild or have your own guild managed, you'll notice that you'll eventually have some enemy and allied guilds. You can go to war with other guilds and slaughter each other in the process. Losing is a very bad thing to happen. you lose your guild =( but most of the time that doesnt even happen. Thats about all i have to unleash. If you want to know more about this game, feel free to email me (spazztic2003@yahoo.com) . I might post more later.

Well ive given ya the basics of the game. Lvling, meeting new peeps, and going guild v guild. The political activity in this game is all around you. Watch for it. you'll see what i mean.

But to summarize this review, its a great game, and i think a lot of people should play it. Well peace

Fascinating political sim -- players need to be fixed

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Shadowbane is truly fascinating in its political dimension. If you've never experienced true power, work hard and you may achieve it in this game. You can rise to run a city of hundreds or thousands of other players. What it takes to get to the top is probably one of the most fascinating game play experiences ever.

The problem is the players. 90%+ are really not the sort of people you'd want to spend time with. There is a small population of troublemakers and predators. As unwholesome and unpleasant as these people are, they make the game work -- providing a fear factor that keeps the rest of the players under your thumb. Most of the rest of the players are without creativity, rather dull, petty, heavy consumers of resources which they inevitably waste through mismanagement of their own affairs. Finally there is a very small fraction of talented, interesting people that will help you build your empire. These are diamonds in the coal.

Player vs. Player combat tends to be short, but exciting. Ubisoft hasn't done a very good job of making these large battles run well on modest computers. Expect to just die because you can't see or act due to computer CPU overtaxation unless you have the very latest game machine. Since these events are rare and can generally be avoided, the game is still playable by mere mortals. You can go hunting, explore, investigate the game system. The character classes and rank progression are reasonably rich. There is a lore behind the game that a number of people advance in their role play. Hunting is without a doubt the dullest of any game.

Many players will tell you that player vs. player combat is the point of SB. It isn't. Politics is. PvP is just politics by other means.

If you like roleplaying (and own a Mac) you should be playing clanlord (www.clanlord.com) instead.

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