Roleplaying games

I’ve already talked about the graphic bug I’ve encountered for this game, so I’ll move on. It’s not all that negative, luckily
The game itself, as already said, isn’t much different from the other classics, like Everquest 2, DAOC, and so on. You have the classic cycle: kills to make adventuring experience, earn new spells/skills, level up and kill even more bigger stuff. Buy new equipment to become even more powerful.

Ah the equipment, of course, can be made by other players, artisans. I didn’t test the crafting system carefully so far, but doesn’t seem to bring any particular innovation. A fun thing, now you can harvest directly on the corpses, for example on poor wolves cadavers to get the wolf skin, and so on. Then you can make new stuff using your crafting skills and try to resell it to get some Gold pieces, which in Vanguard are always welcome, like in any other MMORPG

The last part, the most innovative, is the “political” part. Yes you can become a politician! you have to learn your way up to become the best diplomat, then you’ll be able to influence things in a much larger scale.

It is a MMORPG made for hardcore fans. Reminds me of the first Everquest: getting to level 10 will take a few days of play, while in EQ2 or World Of Warcraft will take you one afternoon, if you know where and what to hunt. Also the death penalty is quite high, and this adds up to the overall difficulty of the game.

The gfx, if you’re lucky enough not to have bug, is very good, but in my opinion not much better than EQ2. The world though is HUGE, that must be said – and the 17Gb of installation says it all!!

Overall , is a good game for the hardcore players. Those more “casual” oriented, will probably find it too hard, or too slow. It has many bugs and problems as it is now, and I would reccommend to wait a few months to see how things progresses! Even EQ2 when released was in this situation, but after 1 year it was greatly improved.