If you want to play an MMORPG play World of Warcraft.
User Rating: 5 | Anarchy Online PC
After playing Anarchy Online it is easy to see why the game developers are letting gamers play free for a year. It's the only way they are going to attract new customers with better MMORPG on the market such as World of Warcraft and Everquest. This game features many horrible features the overall ruin a game that had promise. Anarchy online features one of the worse level up system to date in a MMORPG. Once a player levels up they receive skill points to spend on categories. The problem is there are about 50 or so categories to spend skill points in. Also in the level up system the player picks one type of weapon not ranged or melee but more of staff, sword, pistol, rifle, etc. The problem with this is that a player needs to spend skill points in that weapon skill in order to use that particular weapon and its higher versions. So once the character reaches a higher level and let's say the player would like to try a sword instead of the gun they are using once the character is at level 50 or so there will be a problem because unless the player has saved allot of skill points they won't be able to get a good sword and get destroyed in the dungeons. Once the player picks a weapon and get to higher levels they are committed to it. Also allot of items and nano rely on multiple skill categories that will really tighten they way points are spent. This game features repetitive missions as well. All the missions are either retrieve this, kill him, save him. This gets old and with an boring combat system it's pretty much unimpressive. You engage in combat by pressing the Q button and then if that weapon has a special ability may be able to use it during battle. Also you can cast spells. That sums up the battle system. The only good thing I can say about Anarchy is it looks good. It really has great environments and good looking player models. It is not the best looking MMORPG but still holds up well. Overall this is not a good game. If you want to look over all this and a play a game that has a limited item usage system and unnecessary large level up system then by all means download Anarchy Online. It's free and the only thing that will be wasted is the hard drive space. Just remember if something is free there usually is a reason. Eric Martinez
