Champions of Norrath is a great multiplayer experience.
The beauty of Champions of Norrath is that it is a hack and slash, action based rpg, so the story doesn't always line up. You start out customizing your characters appearance in this game by picking your character (male or female) from the following professions:
1.Barbarian- A tanking profession, good for beginners, in my opinion. Due to the fact this profession deals out quite a lot of damage. Their greatest drawback is the fact they have no natural mana regeneration. Mana is regained by killing enemies. Race=Human
2.Ranger- A class primarily made for archery. This paricular profession is, in my opinion, the rogue of Champions of Norrath. The drawback here, for using a ranger, requires that you haul around the weight of the arrows, taking up inventory room... And you get to buy them too. Rest assured that the abilities more than make up for this. Race=Wood Elf
3.Cleric- A caster/melee hybrid. In my opinion this class is closer to a paladin. Although limited on the types of weapons they can use, the cleric more than makes up for this by means of summon spells and heal spells. The downside, they cannot use any ranged weapons, and they are restricted to blunt weapons. Race=High Elf
4.Wizard- The Caster of Norrath. This class is probably the hardest to play, because it may not use shields, and can only wear the weakest armor. They are very limited in the array of weapons they get, but as they are casters most of your attention should be on the skills anyway. The downside is that you will need a lot of mana bottles to keep you going... They also get kind of heavy. Race=Erudite
5.Shadow Knight- Versatile class, with a few neat abilities and pretty good combat skills. They are an all round character, in my opinion, possibly even more so than the ranger. They can acquire skills both magic and physical. The drawback is that they are not a specialized class, so they will not excel in any one area. Race=Dark Elf
You start out destroying goblins, before you can use the elevator to go down to Lesser Feydark. Of course, you can only destroy the goblins after you have either listened to the wood elf leaders introduction to the game, or skipped it, depending on what kind of game play you prefer. If you desire to beat on things right away just press 'Start' to skip cinematic sequences.
Most of the early game, and late game for that matter, focus on dungeon crawling. When you fight in dungeons, you can gain experience by defeating enemies, revolutionary concept right? However, this particular game was really nice about how and when you can sell all of your loot. As long as you obtain a gate scroll, which you can buy on a vendor npc, you can teleport from wherever you are back to the last store you were at, unless of course you just changed chapters.
You are eventually greeted by Firiona Vie, who is in a sense, the damsel in distress of this game. Your new objective is to rescue her from Innoruuk who is this games 'bad-guy'. Of course on your journey to get there, you have to overcome several hurdles. Such as a giant spider, a confused orc, a vampire, and of course Innoruuk himself.
In conclusion, all I can do, is strongly suggest that you go try this highly addicting hack and slash. Pick your character wisely. Cheers!