User Rating: 1.6 | Lineage: The Blood Pledge PC
Ok...this game just plain sucks. I received Lineage free in the mail with an offer for 10 free hours, or something to that extent. I figured "Ah, why not?" Well...I deleted the game from my computer within 20 minutes of installing it. Its just a bad, bad game. I don't understand its popularity but to each his own. There is no depth to your characters...you choose from very few pre-set classes and name the character. You run around, attacking monsters with no real purpose. There are player-made guilds that fight wars with one another. I happened to stumble upon one such battle in my very short tirade. It looked like paper cut outs of people being slapped together to simulate a 'battle.' The game runs like a run down '82 Buick, with herky jerky animation (albeit the animation for any given sprite is probably 3-5 frames), and enough lag to make you want to punch your monitor. The graphics are so below-standard that they look like they belong on 16-bit system. Basically, just imagine yourself playing a laggy, clunky, dreadfully boring and pointless version of Diablo II on a Sega Genesis, and you have Lineage: The Blood Pledge. Btw i'm not bashing Diablo II, its one of the most fun games i've played in years. Stay away from Lineage if you know whats good for you. I'm glad I only played this on a free trial or I would've sued this company for robbing me of my money. You're better off paying for unnecessary surgery by a back-alley doctor.
