The gorgeous world of Vana'diel is an evocative, richly textured landscape filled with hundreds and thousands of characters to interact with. As you'd expect, the game's visuals are quite impressive for an MMORPG, and fit comfortably with the Final Fantasy semi-continuity that Square-Enix has built up over the years. The world is incredibly large, offering a variety of scenery and worlds to explore. The texture mapping is quite impressive throughout with excellent character modeling that offers a great deal of variation of characters in the game. The music in Square titles is typically beautiful and impressive, and FFXI is no exception. While some of the songs get a bit tedious after repeated play, the high quality and attention to detail that has become Square's trademark is still very prominent with a smooth, highly polished gameplay engine that performs seamlessly for the most part. While the in-game graphics are excellent, the game's spectacular cinema sequences shine as usual, bringing the player into the world of Vana'diel effortlessly. This is one of the more highly polished MMORPG's on the market, and a particularly impressive technical achievement by PS2 standards.