Fun PvP, intense battles, unique gameplay for a free mmo, can be very fun and challenging......but INCREDIBLY BAD LAGG!!

User Rating: 7.5 | Rakion PC
Rakion is an free online PvP action RPG game(or something like that). Most battle you'll play will be fast, heart pounding, and can be really REALLY fun BUUUUTTTTT, that'll only happen if you play with people who have pretty decent computer and you also have a pretty decent computer which will happen about maybe 5% of the time if your really lucky

It has really great potential, action, stratagy, and online multiplayer pwnage. Though you can only choose from 5 jobs that all look like everyone else in the same class, they are all pretty even. There is an archer, as you can guess preforms well in range attacks, a ninja, is fast but with small hit power and health, a blacksmith, the huge guy with the most HP and hit power but is the slowest class in the game which can be a very big weakness, a mage, low HP but high dmg with its magic and can heal other players, and the swordsman, the all around guy.

They also have something i dont see in any other free action PvP games online (to my knowledge) is the option to obtain a pet, or cell as they are called. You start with a spider like creature called a Nak that are incredibly weak, even at higher lvls. later you can obtain stronger cells such as your own golem and even a dragon!

Although, there isnt a huge choice of battles: team death match, solo DM and a unique game of golem wars, in which teams go and try to kill a gold golem to get a golden sword to kill the opposing teams golem....or just kill all the other players if you just to pissed off at em :P. they also have stages where players work together to defeat cells through different lvls for exp and gold.

Now, in great conditions(which are really rare) the gameplay will keep you glued to the screen as if you where on your Xbox wasting noobs on Halo 2(if you know the feeling :D). Then there is the other 95% of the time where you'll go against God and scream his name to the heavans and curse so profoundly itll make your mom go to the crazy house in shock. The concept is a great idea, but the server layout and execution was poorly thought of or not really payed attention to at all.

1 other problem i will address that isnt quite the developers fault is the other players. you'll probably come across hackers, jackasses, punks, and any other group of people you dont happen to like. Players you'll come across are mean, and will perform nasty tricks(though that is part of gameplay in some classes, its just so F#$king annoying). You'll also come to hate archers unless you are one. they have a huge reputaion to be the worst laggers. in some casses youll have in a cornor unable to excape, you swing your weapon enough to knock em off their asses a dozen time and no swing will hit and they'll hit your 4 times with arrows. this become very fustrating. some archers even open internet explorer in the backround to get this effect.

All in all the game can be very fun if you can take the fustration from the lagg, jack asses who play it, and f@#king lagging archers. leveling up can be rewarding as new cells and gear open up. the game can be so much more but fails when almost every game you try to join theres someone with over 300 ping and you get kicked out. it is worth a try if you like action RPG's and MMO's