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Category: Reviews Posted on 2008-10-30 12:19:41 Add to Bookmark

 

JX2 is a fairly old game based on ancient China's mythology. In a way its similar to other games like Hero Online and 9Dragons but each of them have enough differences to make them stand out. JX2 caters to those who are more in favor of old school games like Conquer, Eudemons, and pretty much anything else made by those guys. I'm still amazed they didn't get the license to this game.

Story:

War, land divided, some stuff about fighting for some relics to gain control of the land. Other than that, the story is basically nonexistant.

Graphics:

JX2 is a pretty dated game. To me, its 2D sprites on a 2.5D background. It has enough details to make it look decent, but its not good and not bad. Expect to see yourself around a lot because there's only 4 character models to choose from and each clan in the game provides you with a standard outfit you're expected to wear. The item mall provides for a few different looks, but in the end its all the same. Expect to see clones in the hundreds.

Gameplay:

When you create a character you get to choose between 2 male and 2 female characters. There's no difference except looks and that only males can join Shaolin and only females can join Emei.

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Category: Reviews Posted on 2008-10-21 10:06:24 Add to Bookmark

Priston Tale 2 was originally released a few years back around 2004 is the sequel to the original Priston Tale. There are huge improvements over the original Priston Tale and is similar to it in many ways. However, it lacks the feel that the first Priston Tale had. There are the restrictions on class and gender still. unfortunately. Now with 1 more class! There's 5 not 4 in the beginning!!! There's suppose to be 3 races, but only 2 are playable. Not that it really matters since the only thing that separates them right now is whether they're a magic or physical damage based character.

Story:

Something about demons fighting and building empires and such. Go read the lore on the official site. There's not much to go on inside the game.

Graphics:

Compared to the first Priston Tale, it is a huge improvement. The resolutions you can use are pretty limited and despite having average graphics, it takes a very long time to load. The characters look pretty good, monsters and NPCs on that other hand, not so much. If you set it to window mode, the game is always stuck on “on top” mode as well. There is some nice art work at character creation and loading screens, but otherwise its

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Category: Other Posted on 2008-10-20 10:07:43 Add to Bookmark

First off, I'm going to say that yes I do expect tons of hate mail and flames for this but I do believe that since the implementation of stamina, Atlantica Online has been on a downward spiral towards doomed failure. The only thing going for it right now is its ability to throw money around to solve its problems. The main reason for my post is because of the link provided following this paragraph which I consider to be the starting signal for the decline of Atlantica Online. Ever since this announcement was made, the game went down hill. Dividing the servers only worsended the community as well and worsening the conditions of something you're trying to improve isn't really a good idea. All of its intended goals have failed beyond expectations. As I think of more I will try to add more.

http://atlantica.ndoorsgames.com/center/news/notice_view.asp?page=6&list_seq=131

 

During its first introduction and preview into the English speaking community, it was one of the host hyped and games that was looked forward to by many players and potential players. The first closed beta only increased this hype. The ability to control up to 9 people in a group and a 3D turn based battle sys

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Category: Reviews Posted on 2008-10-09 07:58:33 Add to Bookmark

2Moons (also known as Dekaron) is an MMORPG published by Acclaim a while back. It is a very action oriented game that focuses on violence and obscenity. NPCs in quests use profanity every now and then and monsters may spill pints of blood with each attack. Each of the classes have a bit of a unique playing style to them. The slogan for 2Moons is “No mercy for the weak, no pity for the dying, no tears for the slain”.

Story:
N/A – Pretty much all you have is the lore on the website to go on. Its more or less kill this kill that like all MMOs out there. The game focuses a LOT more on killing and violence.

Graphics:
The graphics of the game are fairly dated. Its not bad, but its nothing spectacular either. The game has a very dark atmosphere and many of the areas look like places you would see in a horror movie. Much of the graphics causes the game to feel the same throughout. Dark city to dark hillside to dark forest to dark cave. One dark area to another. All the characters pretty much look the same as well. If you are this class and this level, you will be wearing this armor. Customization during character creation is very limited as well. Expect to see numerous clone

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Category: Reviews Posted on 2008-10-04 10:55:20 Add to Bookmark

Phantasy Star Universe (PSU) is the follow up to SEGA's last popular action MMORPG dungeon crawler thing called Phantasy Star Online (PSO) and Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst (PSO:BB). The game is basically broken down into dungeon crawling with a small group of people who are either Warriors, Gunners, or Mages. PSU was released a few years back and through elaborate schemes has managed to provide weekly updates and remained quite popular. Most of the files necessary in their "updates" are contained in the installation already. They just make a small patch to unlock some of the content each week to seem like there are updates every week.  If you play on Xbox, you have voice chat but are on separate servers from the PC and PS2 versions. Normal PSU and the Ambition of the Illuminous (AoTI) expansion play on the same servers but normal PSU players are capped at level 100 and can't access any of the new missions or content which remain AoTI exclusive. All AoTI exclusive content is displayed in yellow letters instead of white.

Story:
The story is broken down into 3 parts. Phantasy Star Portable fits in as Episode 1.5. Ambition of the Illuminous takes place in Episode 2 a

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Category: Reviews Posted on 2008-10-01 05:56:15 Add to Bookmark

Nurien is a new game that just came out a few days ago. Its a dancing game that uses the Unreal 3 engine and could be considered the next generation of dancing games. There's a few pictures of it in my game album. The quality of the pictures were lowered because I had to convert it from BMP to JPEG otherwise they would have been 2+ MB each.  I had to censor the names because the game uses REAL NAMES. Not your screen name. If you're interested in looking for videos, the official site has some.

http://www.nurien.com/service/nguide/clientDownMov.nrn
 

Story:
N/A – I haven't figured out if there is any story. So far there's only been the tutorial mission and all you do is basically learn the steps to play.

Graphics:
The graphics in this game are very nice, but as a result, you need a pretty high spec system to be able to play the game. You can adjust your character's facial structure, but the entire character design is based on just dragging some things around so its very difficult to change the face to exactly something because some combinations just aren't possible. The real graphics are when you are dancing with other people. There are few effects, but the char

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