There are a few words that come to mind when a new MMORPG is announced. Crack, heroine, and oddly enough hash brownies (not that I have any personal experience). These games are addicting and their grip on your soul is almost mightier than the cold hand of Death himself. When I can enter a world that allows me to tax the land as harshly as King John did to Sherwood Forest, I want to get my fix as fast as humanly possible.

This past April, NCsoft’s Lineage II (L2) was unleashed upon the earth. A massively multi-player online role-playing game, L2 allows anyone with a decent enough computer and an internet connection to embark on quests, slay monsters (or each other), and explore an immensely populated world from any location around the globe. You take control of one of five races; elves, dark elves, orcs, dwarves and humans, and pave your way to glory and riches in the name of the gods of old. How you do so however, is completely up to you.