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Dark Orbit
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DarkOrbit is your multiplayer online game and a milestone among browser games. Whoever likes action games will love DarkOrbit: hunt through space and fight for your company. Fighting against thousands of real opponents in this online space game – that is your mission! DarkOrbit is not a normal online game: fans of space games can't pass up this Internet game!
In DarkOrbit, thousands of real players face each other: multiplayer online games are Internet games which you can play right in your browser. That's why online games like DarkOrbit are called browser games: they are Internet games with substance and a whole lot of action.
Space games like DarkOrbit revolutionize the browser games market. Control your space ship with the mouse and keyboard in action-packed battles through outer space. Join together in clans – only in browser games can you play with and against thousands of real players in real-time.
Total Rating: 3
Reviews: 4 |
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Post Date: 14:46 20-08-2008
Rating: 2
Author: sporgo
Comment: This game really is very poorly designed and there is very little to do except collect “bonus boxes” and cargo from enemy NPCs you can kill who all look the same. There are maybe eight different types of NPCs total. All of the sectors are the same except they have a different wallpaper. It is an arcade shooter at best. It is not beginner-friendly at all and there are no sectors where new players are safe.
Fully equipped high level ships can (and always do) come into the first sector and shoot down every new player in their path systematically. If you do not buy uridium (a type of game currency) you would have to grind for months to get equipment which will allow you to stay alive for any length of time under the onslaught of paying players. Anyone who pays for enough uridium (around $300 worth) can immediately buy the best ship, which is called a Goliath. They can also purchase all of the best weapons, shields, etc. There are no rewards for playing time and your rank is essentially meaningless, except as a counter for how much time you have wasted playing this horrible game.
The large ships flown by paying customers have an enormous amount of hit points and can not even be harmed by the weapons of smaller vessels. Smaller vessels are always killed, there is no skill involved; to prevail all you need do is buy the best ship and items, click attack and wait. The large ships are so powerful when fully equipped that they can hardly even harm each other and they are well aware of this so they roam the map looking for new players to shoot down instead. The small ships you get to start with are destroyed by a single shot from the large ships. These large ships also hang by all of the “portals” necessary to travel to the different sectors in the game and shoot down any small ships that come through instantly. Since you need to be able to move through several different sectors to complete even low level quests, it becomes impossible to continue without buying uridium or grinding by mindlessly collecting boxes for months.
There is a cloaking device which can be used to move around the sectors unseen; however, anyone who happens to mouse over your vessel can detect you and immediately shoot you down. There is a hack that allows people to see cloaked ships and its use is rampant among high level players.
Another point that should be noted is that the chat moderators also have accounts with very powerful ships, which they use to shoot down new players. I believe this is a blatant scheme to push the sales of their in-game currency, uridium. It seems like a very low-brow and basically scummy business practice to me.
There are numerous bugs in the game system and the in-game lag can be quite bad. Your ship will sometimes get stuck in place for a short time (for instance, if you and another player simultaneously go for the same cargo box) or the game will freeze up completely and your ship sits there waiting to be shot down. Complete server crashes on the weekends when player numbers peak is a regular occurrence.
The in-game chat is basically useless as it is full of kids flooding and insulting each other continuously, and there are no rooms to distinguish one sector from another. Everyone in the game is in the same chat by default. New players who ask questions are either ignored or outright mocked. There is basically no community in the game to speak of, except for a few groups of “elite” players who make it their mission to torment anyone not in their clique and make the game as unpleasant as possible. You cannot send personal messages, or make a list of friends like at almost every other gaming site I have seen.
They have a sort of marketplace where they regularly auction items (ships, shields, weapons, extras) to players. But the bidding is really more like gambling. You bid on the items that are posted by the site creators (not other users), and whether or not you win the bidding war, THEY KEEP YOUR CREDITS. The high bid cannot be viewed by you, the user, so you have no way of knowing what is really going on. They are just basically recycling game currency, taking away from non-paying users, and pushing uridium sales.
Customer support is provided by a foreign third party company whose employees barely speak English. They can not issue refunds or render any actual support, they just send canned apologies and hope you forget about it.
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Post Date: 07:57 08-08-2008
Rating: 2
Author: killervickboy
Comment: i was alright with the game for about............. 5 minutes then i said to my self wat the hell am i suppose to do i flied around killing things the game was boring the enemies r everywere u fly its in space u can customize your ship to me its boring
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Post Date: 12:43 20-07-2008
Rating: 7
Author: chimera452
Comment: fun start off with but when u lose health uve got 2 by somthing to refill your health and when u die u have to either repair your ship which cost alot or buy a new ship. heres my genral review
graphics: 7/10
comunity: 1/10 no1 helps new players they only talk to ppl in their clan
combat:4/10
pvp:2/10 hardly any1 from any other faction come into the place u start in and when they do ther always high levels
over all i think it gets a 7
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Post Date: 11:05 17-07-2008
Rating: 1
Author: pavelzap
Comment: Not fun. When you die, you must start ALL OVER AGAIN. :( Bad game.
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