Real Review. 2 years I've played this game and I can't stop. Like multiplayer? Lke first person shooters? So do I.
This game is exactly how its described, a MASSIVELY multiplayer online role playing game, first person shooter. It has teams of (these numbers aren't confirmed, just speculation) 150 verse 150 verse 150. Those 450 people are armed to the teeth with Heavy assault weapons, tanks, air units, transports, assault buggies, and more.
Imagine standing inside of a base with 4 entrances, 30 teammates running around you, with 50 enemies trying to get inside, both sides spraying as much fire power towards each other as possible. The game is well equipped with tools to find a fight to get into, and the fights never end. There are temporary victories, and you are rewarded for completing a base assault or defense with experience points which you can use to gain certificates. Certificates give you the option to pick another weapon you want to carry with you, or a vehicle or type of armor and what not.
If you don’t care to much for adrenaline fueled domination in player verse player combat, then you can assume a support role.
You can drive mobile spawn points (very strategic assets which greatly assist in getting your empires troops to the battle faster, to assist in pushing your enemy back into its own spawn points).
You can fly Aerial transports and get your teammates into the fro. (There aren’t many things more impressive than being involved in one of these when it goes right).
If your not big into support or combat, you can be a cloaker and sneak around and try to assassinate people. Its really frustrating when your running around in a re-enforced armor suit with rocket launchers and machine guns and someone without any armor in a cloaker suit with a machine gun pistol whacks you.
Team work in this game is pretty cool too. If you want to Lone Wolf it and go on about your own business, getting kills for yourself and hacking towers and bases or what not, you can still gain a lot of experience for yourself. But the best thing to do is latch on to a group of people who know how to play somewhat decently and attack/defend with them. In squads and platoons you will find it infinitely easier to get a ride from someone from one of your bases to an enemy base. It will be easier to get to gun a tank, bomb for a bomber, or find someone to bring you back to life when you have been shot in the face with someone’s shot gun a couple times.
Open field combat, this part is a toss up. If you’re a good pilot, you can have fun, unless the enemy has AA. If you drive a tank, you have a good chance of racking up some kills, unless the enemy has Air. If your in one of those "big freakin robots" which are called Battle Frame Robots (or BFR's), then you are an menace to which ever category you choose to be whether its air, troops, or armor. But everything has weaknesses.
Despite alot of argument, there is no I WIN button. Anyone can jump into the game and kill someone who has been playing 2 years. No one set up can guarantee your victory.
Every enemy you encounter is another person who is playing this game. You can’t always predict what you think they are going to do, what weapons they are going to have or choose to use against you. That aspect keeps the game forever refreshing because you know deep down inside of your soul that if you could just get the jump on that guy you could decimate him, but he keeps getting lucky and it’s not fair.
This game is a lot of fun, and there is really waaaay too much to this game to give it a 100% accurate review of it.
The 3 empires weapons are balanced, their vehicles have advantages and disadvantages. The only difference that really matters between the 3 empires is the people who are playing them.
You need a good gaming PC to experience it at its best.
I recommend a 2ghz, 1028 mb ram, 128mb vid card at the least. It CAN be played with less, but the lag is a lot more noticeable.
I play the game with a 3.4 ghz 1028mb 400mhz ram and a 256mb vid card and It still gets kinda choppy for me. But then again, it is 400 people in a 300m area, and the server has to keep track of every shot fired to account for hit or miss.
This game is really impressive. There will be some times when you will just kind of stop and look at everything that is going on, times when everyone on your team just seems to come together and be doing the exact right thing that needs to be done. Or look around and see yourself in the middle of a gigantic convoy headed to blow up some poor innocent fools who have no idea what’s about to show up on their door step.
Give the game a shot. There is too much to this game to not try it.