First Thaughts
To date i have also played Guild Wars, Dungeon Runners, Tubula Rasa (beta), Exteel (Beta) and all games are pretty good in there own way so i decided to give Linage 2 a bash after reading quit a bit about it beforehand and finding a great deal on www.play.com of only £14.99 with a 15 day time card included plus the free 30 days works out as 45 days free so in my eyes it was quite worth it.
The first thing i have to mention about the game are the controls WSAD (normaly forward,backward,left & right keys) feel very unresponsive and A & D seems as if you are turning in slow motion, the main way of controling the game is buy Left mouse clicking to where ever you want to go, i thaught as soon as i started playing that i diddnt like it ONLY because of the control system, it took me quit a while to get used to it but after an hour or two i was pretty much getting used to it i found that panning the camera out helps to.
Another thing i noticed (also from reading the Linage 2 websight) is the ammount of game content that has been added, just an example the Pet system which enebles you to raise a pet even a flying Dragon called a Wyvern which starts off as a hatchling then moves up to a strider that you can also use as a Mount.
There is also another issue dure to be released soon which adds another race to the game.
I have only just scratched the surfice of this game so i cant really comment any further exept to say if you like MMo's this one is worth a try and probabbly due to the controls you will either love it or hate it.