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EQ Online Adventures Review at GH

(PS2: MMORPG) | Posted by Rendelius @ Thursday - March 13, 2003 - 04:17 -
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Gaming Horizon has written adetailed review of Everquest Online Adventures. Not too fond of, that's how you could characterize their stance, an the rating of 6.7/10 reflects that. Here's the summary they offer:
Yet now to my point that I’ve put off for the entire review: with all the little features and things that you can do, there’s still so much that you just can’t, but should. What I refer to here is to the features that the game is missing and that often create the groundwork for wondrous titles, which EQOA is undeniably not. Yes, you can chat, but take away the chat or the online connectivity and what are we left with? Additionally, with the low-level graphics and sound and general presentation and all the tiny, frustrating quirks of the gameplay, do you really want to pay $9.95/month for chat? Let me ask you this: as a console gamer, do you reserve the right to demand higher quality online titles compared to those thrown together - although with expensive programming, no doubt - for the PC? I say that we do, and if EQOA was simply EQ, that is, an RPG without online capabilities, its publicity would have been nothing and the game would not have lasted. Since it’s the only offering in the MMORPG genre with legs to stand on, and by far the only MMORPG for consoles, EQOA will probably gain in some popularity - until FF11/Online finally releases around the rest of the world and people can get the sense of what a real $9.95/month game is meant to be like on a console. As a PC RPG from several years ago, it was a good, knowledgeable idea, but as a PC RPG on a console several years later it is simply several years too late. My only advice is to test the game out at a friend’s house (and hopefully on his own account) to see if it’s to your liking, which I’d guess is about a 50/50 chance, and if Tunaria does grow on you, then go for it - after all, an RPG is an RPG, even if some of them are much better than others.
 
 
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