Nice beta, bad news about payment system, then disappointment.

User Rating: 3 | Fury (2007) PC
I've played Fury since second closed beta. It was pretty good after first two hours, but my pc was too slow for a better gameplay.

Then I noticed that game won't be free. That is, you can play for free, but you are really inferior to people paying for the game. But from beginning...

First thing you'll notice is.. lag. Very, very laggy. It doesn't matter if your computer meets requirements or it's high-end. You WILL lag like hell. Why? Graphics are hideous. I can give at least 10 games with better textures that don't lag so much. Bah, they are 2-3 years old, as opposed to Fury.

During beta's I noticed one thing - a lot of useless spells and skills. You can try to use combos, but mashing 2-3 buttons all the time makes more sense. Game is pretty fast, but you have to care only about facing the direction of your opponent(s).

Second - waiting time is really big. Then, when you join and you are new to game/don't pay monthly fee (meaning you have inferior equipment), you'll notice everyone kills you after 2-3 seconds (not counting lagging around place). The best chance for you to attack someone is waiting when 2-3 people fight with each other and you try to attack them from behind. Otherwise, wait for one person to survive and finish him off.

Another bad thing - healers have VERY hard time playing. Actually anything can outdamage your heal in few hits, so it's no point in healing yourself or other people.

The damage and charges system is pretty creative, but it just supports mindless spamming of skills. Spam few times a fireball to cast better fireball, start spamming again, cast better fireball and so on.

Nothing to say about sound - effects maybe are nice, but nothing like Guild Wars or Neverwinter Nights music. You'll probably end up listening to your playlist in background, but then prepare for massive FPS drop...

Oh, and don't think there is any thinking in this game. Just get better equip, kill people to get better equip, use better equip to kill people faster, kill faster to get better equip. Rinse and repeat.

If you enjoy being slaughtered and then, after a week of two of game, slaughtering people, mindless spamming and lagging yourself to death (or you have an uber PC), play this game, why not. Just treat it as a free-to-pay game, and even then it's pretty weak.

Oh, and game weights a lot for crappy graphics. Why? I think that creators would be better off buying Unreal Engine and using it to make prettier, smoother and lighter game.