One of the best Free-To-Play PvP based games in history.
Classes: Rakion features 5 classes, each one with different attributes and fighting styles.
Swordsman(Warrior)- Fights with a one-handed sword, and can slice down his enemies with his special attacks.
Blacksmith - Mighty, but slow characters, that fights
with a two-handed hammer (or axe) to crush his enemies.
Blacksmiths are slow, but they are powerful and kill creatures fast.
Ninja - Agile, feminine ninja-warriors with a one-handed sword or dagger. They are by far the fastest characters in the game, but they have low energy(HP) and armor, and die easily. If you can master a ninja, there is nothing that can stand in your way.
Mage - Cute little things with a staff and a wand. Mages are not only strong with ranged magic, but they are masters of the grip attack, once a mage grips you, you will be frozen for a amount of time.
Archer - Everyone hates archers. These female archers are both strong with their Bow and their Sword and dagger. By far the most irritating kill-stealing class in the world of Rakion.
Game play and Features:
Events - Sometimes, the Rakion community comes up with evens, these events will give you from rings, to very powerful creatures, like a Golem.
Here is some events.
.Easter - Collect eggs and trade them for a Golem.
.Halloween - Kill players to gain their skulls, and trade them from spooky gifts, like skull necklace.
.Elemental Chaos - Collect points by killing other players, and trade those points for elemental-based armor, like Water, Earth etc.
Gameplay - Rakion is a PvP based game, often played in teams (except when you play Deathmatch aka FreeForAll)
and the key to success is to work good as a team.
You basically move with W,A,S,D , Jump with the Space Bar, block with shift, attack with the mouse buttons, rotate the camera with the mouse, change to ranged weapon and vice versa. (Just visit the Tutorial mode)
Cell Creatures and Potions - There is different types of creatures and potions in this game, here is a list of some potions and creatures that you might wanna take a look at.
Creatures:
.Nak - Spiderlike creature that attacks with a venomous sting-attack that is spitted out of its mouth.
Naks also exist in different colours, like White and Black.
.Panzer - Basic human soldiers, slow when moving, bad accuracy, but good at holding creatures from attacking you instead. Also exist in different colours, like White and Black.
.Crossbow - Small dwarven archers that shoots arrows, deals great damage versus armor. There is also a black color.
Blazer - Flying magicans that masters fire/energy.
The basic blazer shoots balls of energy at players, knocking them down, and damaging them alot. There is also blazers in white and black colors.
That was all creatures you can buy with gold in the game, but if you pay with different paying methord, you can gain Armor, Weapons and even other creatures.
Become a Poweruser to get more XP, and while beign a PU you can buy creatures like Taurus, Dragons, Golems and other creatures and items.
To Summon a creature, hold down CTRL and then press 1-3.
You can have max 3 creatures at a time.
Creatures also level like you, and become more powerful.
Potions - There is different potions in the game, here is a list of some potions.
Health Potion -Red Potion that recovers lost Energy(HP)
Armor Potion -Blue potion that recovers lost ArmorPoints
Fear Potion -Throws down all enemies around you when used, good when fighting many.
Stim Pack -Increases your characters attack speed and attack power by 30% for some time.
Chaos Potion - Increases the amount of chaos points +1.
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Chaos Form - Chaos Form is a "super form" of the player's class. You turn big and powerful, and can crush every player with ease. Mages however are still vulnerable by the attacks greatly, so better be careful.
You get chaos when you have reached a certain amount of PK's (Player Kills) and you also gain some points with time, that happens automaticly.
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Modes:
Stage - Play solo or with more players (depends on which stage you play) and fight with creatures to the goal.
Deathmatch - Free For All, get as many PKs as possible.
Team Deathmatch - Red Team vs Blue Team. Each time a player dies, the team that killed him/her gets a point, reach a amount of points/kills to win.
Golem War - Each team start with a Golem on their starting point. The goal is to defeat the opponents golem or crush all the opponents. But in order to defeat the other teams golem, you will need the
Golden Sword. In order to get the Golden Sword, you and your team will have to defeat the Gold Golem, the player that delivers the final blow, gets the sword.
Protect that player with the sword, untill he or she defeats the other teams golem. If that player fails to do so, that means if he/she dies or it takes too long time to kill the opponents team Golem, the Gold golem is reincarnated.
Boss War - Team based game, the highest level in the blue and red team becomes a boss, protect the boss from getting killed, but still kill the other teams boss.
The life of the boss is displayed in the upper right corner in precent (%)
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Thank you all for reading this, everything written by me, and please if you can, start with Rakion.
If you have any questions, PM me, OK? =)
- EDIT: 14 Mars - 2009
Dear friends, a very long time has passed since I wrote this review.
I would like to come with a few things:
Rakion have added more creatures, even if you are not PU, like Horses, Skeletons, and even flying Red Ice Winds.
However, Rakion have decided to remove PowerUser (PU) for good, because it is too imbalanced.
New armors have been released, and so have new weapons and other creatures available for cash.