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Post Date: 08:25 24-04-2008
Rating: 9
Author: Vaultar
Comment: Let me start off by saying this game is great!
Like Acacia said, the main attraction going for this game would have to be the ingame bot system. As long as u have the game opened and the bot properly set up, u can be sure that ur character is gaining exp while u are keeping urself occupied with other things. Now u can leave the game on while sleeping and still level :D.
May I add to Acacia's review that botting system by itself, wouldn't have been enough to make this a fun, addictive game. For me, its also about loot collection and in terms of loot this game more than delivers.
Mobs can drop completely random stat- enhanced weapons and armor which are color coded into blue (uncommon), gold (rare), dark-gold (very rare) and green (legend). U can also find special stones that u can insert into weapons and armor with a socket in it (yes, mobs can drop armor/weapons with a socket too!). The higher level the stone the better the stat of the stone is.
As well as that, the mobs drop different treasure maps relative to ur lvl and if u collect 3, u will be given coordinates which u can follow to locate the treasure and find stat enhanced weapon or an armor. There are also different levels of pandora boxes that can be found and when opened with a key (purchased from grocery merchant), besides the chance of getting a stat enhanced weapon or armor, u also have a chance of getting a set of magic stones (the higher level the pandora box is, the more magic stones u might get from it). If u collect 50 of these, u can trade these off for a legendary ring with HUGE stat boosts that really help with training.
With such a great looting system, there is always that tendancy to check up on ur bot just to c what it picked up while u were away^^.
Personally, the botting system and the loot system is enough to keep me interested in the game, but the game offers some of the other more noteworthy features such as growing weapon which u can get from a level 20 quest and which can be really customised as u level it up and upgrade it (i doubt u would find any two same types of growing weapons exactly the same in terms of stat modifiers); video chatting (i still havent tried it yet); auction house (putting up ur found loot for sale at the auction and not having to worry about setting up ur own stall just to sell items off to players); MANY quests and random guild quests which when accomplished, does not only give u guild resources to donate and to improve ur guild but will also improve one of ur base stats permanently (like +5 to min attack to keep it fair, u can improve one of ur base stat areas up to 5 times and no more to avoid overpowered characters); class transfer that allows u to get better skills when u reach certain level i.e at level 15, 30, 50, 65 giving u incentive to continue playing this game (in addition to botting which eliminates a great deal of grinding as mentioned earlier); and the navigation system which allows u to navigate around the world simply by clicking on the expanded map making it easier to move from point A to point B or finding ur way to an npc.
That's of course not to say that this game doesn't have its downsides. For one, there is almost no ambient sounds such as wind howling, birds chirping and other such sounds that could add to the atmosphere as well as having only one looping music which quickly gets repetitive.
Since u can advertise ur items in chat (there is a system where u can actually place a context sensitive name of ur advertised item so when people scroll over the name of the item, they can c all its details like attack and the stat enhancements), the auction mall feels pointless; it is much quicker to literally show ur item thru chat by holding shift and right clicking on an item and pressing enter than to set up an item in auction mall.
Lol just realised i haven't mentioned anything about the graphics (got too carried away about its great gameplay...hopefully that tells u something :P). The graphics, eventhough 2d, are simply great! Very sharp and VERY detailed. Some of the best 2d graphics i ever seen in any 2d mmo IMO. Unfortunately the downside to the great graphics is that the animation of u and the mobs moving and battle animations are rather choppy. While that put me off when i first started CB II, i found the game all too absorbing soon after and it became easy to oversee the choppy character/mob animations until finally, i simply didn't care.
O yea one more thing...this is the first free mmo game i have seen in which the GM is actually active and friendly! He either trains, or sits on his pet in the town and helps to answer any questions that people may have (mostly newbie questions and such) another thing is that the GM can actually ban people from the game for poor behaviour (one person got banned for swearing in country chat excessively). This definately helps with the already great community in the game ^^.
I have tried quiet a number mmo games before this one including last chaos, tales of pirates, dream of mirror and perfect world but all those f2p games were either tooo heavy grind, had a lack of quests, had boring mob drops (mostly materials and such) translation problems or players talking in their own tongue (in the case of the last mmo game i mentioned) as well as the usual scammer bot problems and players illegally botting.
Hopefully it's easy to c how MWO solves all those problems as well as adding some features never before seen in other free mmo games out there.
Having said all this, i find it easy to c myself playing this game for a long time to come and im saying this when both my characters are in their early 40s in terms of levels.
Please take note that the game is in its early stages of CB II and will only get better with time. I wouldn't be surprised when its current problems are fixed later on ^^.
Anyways, I really hope many of u will at least give this f2p mmorpg game a good solid try and hope to c u ingame ^^! My ingame characters are Vaultar and Valdor.
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