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Read Carefully!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 14
Date: March 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Please read the system requirements carefully. If you do not have a video card that meets the requirements the game will NOT run. There is no option to bypass the lowest setting. I have a laptop with an Intel on-board video card that meets ALL of the requirements except Vertex shading 2.0 and the game will not run. And since the game is opened, the game store I purchased it from will not take it back.

Again, if you do not have a video card that support pixel shader 2.0 and vertex shader 2.0, this game will not run AT ALL on your system.

For me this has been $50.00 down the drain

Not What I Had Hoped

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: March 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

With all the hype about Vanguard the product that arrived at my door was a far cry from the game beta testers talked about. I think it can be a good game when the devs actually finish it. I don't recommend it maybe in a year when its completed and patched. It was a definite let down.

I had to take a shower after trying this one...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 19
Date: March 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Let me start off with saying that I used to play Giuld wars, and am now playing WoW, like many other people. So of course I was looking for somthing more challenging and in depth. I have read that Vangaurd had that to offer, but that was the beginning of my downfall in the MMORPG saga. I purchased this game after I got out of work today, after reading many,many reviews online, most of which were eitther love it or hate it type reviews. I decided to take the chance and go out and purchase the game and a now worthless SOE game card. Shortly after installing the game and downloading the one hour worth of patches I finally got the game up and running.....Here's where I started to become nauses. Character creation is joke, the game offers you with many diffrent facial and body proportions. theses customizable features are so vaugly diffrent from one or the other it looks like your character barely changes apperance when you adjust them, even WoW's limited charctrer creation features were noticeable. that was strike one for Vangaurd.
Here comes strike two. o.k. now that your lovely linear character is completed, it's now time to move out to the world and prepair to fight...... SLITHERING SLUGS........WOW, pretty epic, huh? and that is what you will face after a standing guard appers before you and tells you to kill 6 roaming farmers for him, but be careful, you have to get by the (said with an epic booming voice) SLITHERING SLUGS!!and at this point I threw up in my waste basket.He steps up to the plate, the pither hurl's the ball to the batter, he swings, and....ohhh he misses, STRIKE TWO!!
Alright next batter is up to the plate this one is for all the marbles. After slautghering the fearsome farmers, and slugs. I ran around looking for a vendor to sell my precious discolored farmer fangs to. finally afeter countless hack and slash slug killing i made it to town and ran up to the vendor, but wait he didn't want my discolored farmers teeth.So after all my grinding, slow leveling progression, slug killing, and collecting farmers teeth, i got nothing and at this point I'm sitting on the toilet with diareaha from being so repulsed by this game. The pitcher throws the ball to the batter, the batter swings.........you know what happens,
My conclusion to Vangaurd is this. I CAN HAVE MORE FUN PLAYING A TEXT BASED DOS VERSION OF THIS GAME!!!!

Worst online game I've ever played

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

Even with an above average computer, I had to reduce the graphic settings down to a bare minimum, making it so ugly that it was painful to look at. Even then I had terrible lag when I was near a congested area or town. Very very grahpics unfriendly game. The gameplay and quests weren't great either. When my level 4 character died the game spawned me in a place next to much higher level creatures and it was impossible to safely return to the newbie grounds without asking for help. At that point I quit in frusteration and never went back.

Junk

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: June 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Graphics are so over-done that you wind up making the game look worse than EQ1 to get a solid 50+ FPS, which ends up dropping to 10 FPS when you run near a group of players.

Combat is boring, repetitive, uninspiring, etc. Crafting is 10x's worse.

Anyone who enjoys the game hasn't gotten much past 30 or has their own regular group to play with.

If you buy this game, you'll spend hours looking for certain classes of a certain level who are willing to do a certain portion of a certain quest line. Good luck with that.

Don't waste your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 18
Date: March 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am really disappointed with this game. I feel like I just threw away my $50.00 for nothing. I have played beta (not on this game but others) and I must say that this game is beta. The startup quests really, really suck. I made it to level 7 when the death penalty starts without ever getting an explanation of what it would be. I am still uncertain if/how much of a experience penalty there is. I only know there would be a penalty at 7 because during my many deaths before level seven I got the notice that there wasn't a penalty until level 7.

And why did I die so many times? Because the respawn rate is ridiculously high. The quest says go kill 10 wolves, well you only have to find 1 wolf because as soon as you find kill it, it respawns. So you kill it again, and again, and again, until it finally wears you down, cause there is no time in between to heal, and you die. Then when you respawn, you are not in the starting area, but in the first town. I had no idea which way to go to find the starting area where my low level mobs were. Since it appears to be absolutely impossible, (even with sprint) to get away from a mob, I died again, and again, and again.... The map system is extremely bad. I pretty much can't make head or tails out of it. Where are the roads? What are all those dots? Some of the dots appear to be locations for my quests. How do I know which quest? They turn green and red, why? Why are there dots all over for places I have never been? Why aren't all these questions answered in game?

I have yet to figure out anything about crafting and diplomacy. So far all I do is kill mobs that are thick as fleas on a dog, and don't even move, (so I guess "mobs" is not the right word, maybe it is "Rocks", cause they have as much personality.) My prior experiences with Death Penalty's and Maps, don't leave me much hope.

Everyone raved about the graphics, but I am not seeing it. When I installed the game all the settings were turned way down, and the game was glitchy. I wanted to see the wondrous graphics I was promised, so I turned all the settings way up, and the game is still glitchy, no worse then before so I don't think the glitches really have anything to do with graphics, and the graphics suck. Burning crusade is much better. I really hope that I missed some setting that will suddenly make it look awesome, but I really doubt it.

It is a miracle I even made it to 7. I quit the game many times due to frustration. The only reason I kept logging back in is because I kept sitting around feeling very angry that I had been cheated, and guilty for wasting the money, and I would decided to try it again in a vain effort to get my $50 out of it.

Bottom line, if you want to pay to play beta, then go ahead and buy this. If not, give them another 6 months to a year and it might be ready.

MMO GIGO

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 13
Date: February 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Absolute garbage.. Played the beta and still majority of the major issues are still not resolved. What a total letdown.

Probably the worst MMO in existence.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 16
Date: April 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I know, the title sounds pretty extreme, but I do not want to leave any doubts about this 'game'. I'll be short with my points as there are too many problems to go in to depth.

The game renderer is severely buggy. Animation stops, characters disappear, surfaces flash and disappear. Sound stops and pops, keyboard input is lost for seconds at a time. No driver updates on my system changed this (it's a quad xeon with a 512mb video card and 4GB of ram, very fast and up-to-date). I get about 7-15 frames per second.

The design of the maps appears to be very amateur and are quite ugly. Most objects have one dull repeating texture. The shapes of most objects are really unrealistic and aesthetically repulsive. Either no artists were involved in its creation, or there is something very wrong with the game engine that hinders them. I refuse to believe there are artists that bad.

Character animation is really poor, as if the developer had no interest in animation better than say, a 3D title from 1990. the player is animated in slow motion, I assume to slow down the pace beyond glacial.

Combat is a mindless button mashing and timing exercise much like EQ and its copy WOW, but even less fun to watch. The timing is roughly three times slower than WOW and EQ. It can take three or four minutes to fight one lower level monster, and more than ten for higher monster. It's incredibly boring. To the point where I lose interest and would ignore screen if my character was not in danger of dying at all times. There is no choice in fighting monsters, anything two levels higher can flatten you in two hits, they chase you to the end of the earth, and run faster than you.

Almost no one is playing. Literally. I saw three people after six hours of play, And two of the the three there were very rude fan-boys. None wanted to play in a group. there are no populated outposts, just camp after camp of non-player characters giving lame quests. All the broadcast channels for player chat are off, there is no way to find other non-local players to ask for advice or help.

Monsters or opponents are spread out evenly so you sit there and pull one. Then fight it, then another, fight it... ad infinitum. Until you can walk to wherever. All monsters re-spawn in a matter of seconds so the monster you just killed will pop up right behind you while you fight the next, and attack you. In many cases they re-spawn immediately after dying. This game manages to faithfully preserve one of the lamest conventions of MMOs.

Out of the thirty or so quests I did, all but a few were 'kill seven bears', and 'kill seven wolves. How do the quests change later? 'Kill twelve bears', and 'kill twelve wolves', a few seemed different, but essentially were deliveries or bosses. There is nothing of interest in the world but assigned quests.

The classes are just rehashes of every other MMO that came before. All of the skills I encountered were mundane. Click a button and you hit for 16 more damage. Click another and it's 12 more damage, etc.

There are about seven monster models (as far as I went) with just a name change to designate what they are. A grey wolf, kit, wolf pup, and whatever else, are all just a chalky white dog model with different text floating above them.

The day is seventy two minutes I believe, so it's constantly flipping from day to night as if the planet is suffering from some neurosis. This happens so fast yet there are no shadows so it just seems like the lights are going out. Daylight is really dim looking on top of it all. Of course the player moves as if it's a seventy two hour day.

This game has constant lag, while the other online games I play do not. Lag is also devastating. You don't go slower or have a minor hiccup, you just suddenly have different health, are somewhere else, are dead. etc.

The world is big and open, and pretty much empty and featureless. Combine the barren world with the horrid art, and visually It's like playing a non-cartoon themes version of WOW, with even less noticable scenery. The monotony is broken up by rocks though. Giant rocks all with identical surfaces that are shaped unlike any real rocks.

Character creation seems to be little more than a feature to put on the box. It's useless as the characters all look the same (very ugly). The armors and clothing in the game stick through each-other and as stated above, appear to be designed and created by an an amateur.

It takes up to five minutes to log in, because the launch utility checks all your files every time. Once that happens the game sits there with a drawing of who knows what (it's not related to the game) until it loads.

Death penalty is harsh for two reason. You will die a lot due to the draconian control over your choices as a player (you can not fight outside your level because it's designed to make the smartest and stupidest player completely equal, yet random high level monsters are tossed in lower areas). You will die when encountering bugged monsters that suddenly can no longer be hit or lose health, but they still can kill you. On top of it all it costs more to repair your items than you will ever make. Also you have to run back to continue your quest, and all the monsters will be alive again.

They charge money for it. It would be inaccurate to describe this game as not quite finished. It's not really anything but the most rudimentary and broken beginnings of a poor game, yet they are actually telling people it's done and accepting money. Maybe it can't be called fraud as a legal charge, but it's certainly misrepresentation.

So to be blunt. It's bad. Before this game I didn't think I could reccomend a game a sbad as World of Warcraft over anything, but WOW is better than this game. In fact I don't think any MMO I have played before even comes close to being this bad.

Great in theory.....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: June 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I read all of the hype about this game and believed it. The game play is terrible. Characters look terrible. Swimming backwards looks like swimming forward, but in the other direction, and you can't get your head above the water to take a breath, so outside of finding land your dead. Clipping needs ALOT of work, because if your not really close to anything, it just disappears, not fades out, disappears. Yes the game is vast and big, but there is nothing in it, you have to walk for miles to get to anything. The newb areas are rediculous, there aren't enough quests to get you through level 8. Now you have to go find mobs and grind a while, a long while. Did I mention the fact that the combat leaves much to be desired for what was supposed to be the NEXT GENERATION MMORPG. Save you money people this one is a bore.

17 GB size?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 21
Date: February 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Almost a 7gb download, then 17 GIGABYTES ON MY COMPUTER? Wow. Just wow. Forget this game... way too much space.

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