This is one of the only PvP fantasy multiplayer games that RESPECTS the players time.
User Rating: 6.5 | Fury (2007) PC
Fury… This game is every bit as bad as the reviewers say. Is it seriously buggy? Hell yes it is. Is it a glorified lobby masquerading as a game world? Yep. However, the reviewers have not given Fury the time of day and have brushed over the real strengths of this game. This game gives what other MMOs make you waste months to get to: PvP. Fast paced PvP. This PvP is NOT hard to get into. It is different from the norm. You don’t spend hours upon hours in ridiculous groups that you don’t want to be in because you need to get an item so that you’re not steam rolled in PvP. Everything you do in this game pertains to PvP. You don’t spend over 2 minutes fighting someone unless you’re evenly matched. You’re in the fight: Generate your charges, execute you attacks, or use your counter attacks. You can have 23 skills (not 24, your chosen weapon takes up a skill slot.) A fight with an opponent can be less than 15 seconds. You think this is too fast? How fast can you kill someone in an Unreal, Team Fortress or Battlefield game? This is not a game where you can make a sandwich while fighting. You don’t use all 23 skills at once as the reviewers seem to be saying. You’re using maybe 7 of them in a fight. You need those other skills for firing off super abilities, buffing your character or performing counters to debuffs that can be applied to you on the battlefield. What Auran has done here is gone out of the box on how PvP can be in an online Fantasy setting. Don’t let Gamespot or anyone else dissuade you from a game that you can actually have fun with. You’re not pigeon holed into doing crap damage because you’re a healer, or being a wuss to melee as a mage. It’s all dependent about what YOU the player do in a fight.
However, it's not all sunshine and happy bunnies. Until you get the hang on the fighting system you will be throttled a lot. However, just like when they make a FPS with a new twist, you can definitely pick up Fury’s combat. The game has issues but it definitely is not worthy of the low score it’s been given.. This is one of the only PvP fantasy multiplayer games that RESPECTS the players time. You don’t have to inch along like molasses going up hill. BAM! You’re in PvP. You live, you fight, you own, you get owned. But you do so in a few minutes rather then a few hours. This game is not 100% complete. It has issues that need to be addressed (just like all MMOs do when they start out), but if you give it half a chance you will be pleasantly surprised.
