Anarchy Online

by Funcom

Product Features

• It is the year 29,475 AD, and mankind has come to colonize the tiny planet of Rubi-Ka
• The Omni-Tek Corporation has staked a claim to Rubi-Ka's natural resources, and colonist humans have organized into Clans to oppose them. The stage is set for anarchy!
• Choose what breed of human you want to play & choose a side
• Work with Omni-Tek to crush Clan resistance, or side with the Clans and blow some Omni-Tek stooges away!
• Incredible weapons and nanotechnology are at your disposal, for amazing & powerful enhancements

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000053UJ2
• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: June 27, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (283 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,788 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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The year is A.D. 29475, and the place is Rubi-Ka, a brave new world on the outer fringes of known space. As a new citizen and colonist, you are propelled into perilous and unfamiliar territory, and you will soon have to decide where your allegiance lies. Whether you sympathize with the rebel clans or with the corporate behemoth Omni-Tek, your decision will affect everyone. On this world, the future is in your hands.

Anarchy Online is a massively multiplayer Internet role-playing game featuring thousands of players simultaneously in a persistent, living universe. Players can customize their characters in a number of different ways, including choice of breeds, character classes, skin color, clothing, equipment, and more than 40 different social animations.

Inhabiting an alien planet in a distant future, players--in groups or on their own--are free to explore a stunningly detailed sci-fi environment, converse and socialize with other players, solve numerous quests, and battle strange and otherworldly creatures!

Product Description

Anarchy Online takes you 30,000 years into the future, as you battle for your right to claim a place in a planet's future in this incredible multiplayer experience! Battle mutants and alien creatures as you fight for what-s right -- or for good money! Anarchy Online is full of the multiplayer battle, strategy, and hardcore destruction you crave!

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

38 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Just plain horrible, in every regard, September 19, 2001

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"zenpaul" (Sherman Oaks, California USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Anarchy Online (CD-ROM)

I was in the beta...well...I never actually played in the beta because I could never get the game to work. Then I was dumb enough to buy the game...lol. After about a week of hair pulling, countless crashes to desktop, a few re installs, I actually got into the game and played..for about 10 minutes at a time or until I zoned and crashed to desktop. But these problems are covered in other reviews, let's get to the real problems.

1. BORING: Once you get past all the bugs, (if you can), you find out what the game is really all about. Well...not much. One of the main selling points for this game, is that camping would be eliminated by the "random missions generators". The key word here is RANDOM. Everything about this game is random and generic, and that's it's biggest downfall. There is no sense of purpose, no sense of direction, and no sense of accomplishment.
The missions all start to look the same after about the 10th one, and you'll be on hundreds of them if you ever want any cash. This also ties in to the lack of boss mobs, and lack of dungeons.
You fight mostly outdoors, or in the "missions". Which are randomly generated "dungeons". The implementation of which is absolutely horrible. Mobs are spawned with no ryhme or reason, some dungeons have ZERO mobs in them, some have 5 that will all rush you at zone it.

2. SERIOUS coding and engine problems: Not even going to go into all of these as they alone would take up the 1000 word limit on reviews, needless to say it's overwhelming.

3. Crashing, crashing, and more crashing: Self explainatory.

4. Character creation: Suppose to eliminate cookie cutter characters, but it doesn't. Sure, you can train anything you want, but because of the skill system, and the way the points you get to spend must be distributed to make your character viable, you end up with really only one path you can take per given proffesion.

5. Monster AI: The single WORST programming of AI I have ever seen in any video game...and that's saying a lot.

6. Exploits, cheats, hacks: By the time I left, which was under one month into release, there were already players that were level 150+. Being that this is a PvP game, that's not good. Exploits were RAMPANT and numerous. Exploiters went scott free.

7. Balance of proffesions: Non existant. The game is so unbalanced it's not even funny. There are 2 viable classes to play if you want to live PvP, forget it if you play any of the others.

Just a note about me. I'm an avid gamer, and have 3 characters over 50 in EQ, and 4 over 50 in AC. So I obviously have the patience for online gaming...lol.

This game fails in every single aspect of gameplay. It's boring, repetitive, buggy, unbalanced, and just plain no fun. Avoid at all costs, you have been warned.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A bright, shining, broken promise., October 8, 2001

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Christopher MacDuff (Nowhere near Norway) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Anarchy Online (CD-ROM)

If you're thinking of buying this game and reading this, you'll want to know the following things:

1. Be very comfortable and familiar with your computer system. Ideally, you'll have built it yourself. If you're not comfortable editing registry settings, doing full backups, rebooting frequently, installing all sorts of drivers, and doing dozens--if not hundreds--of system-level tweaks, you may want to avoid this game. This game is seriously in late-beta condition. At best.

2. Be able to operate independently, as there is next-to-no in-game or out-of-game support. If you have a problem, you are on your own; do not expect customer service from Funcom.

3. Be extremely patient. You may have to install, re-install, patch, and re-patch up to two dozen times before you ever enter the game. And every following patch, you'll run the risk again.

4. Be tolerant of the company's mistakes. You'll find every patch a thrill as the time you've invested in your character wasted with a couple of keystrokes. Class balance and game balance vary wildly from patch to patch, and, with the rare exception, never for the better.

Buy this game, install it, and play it, and you'll be wasting not only your money, but your time.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buyer Beware, August 14, 2001

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Shocked1 (NH, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Anarchy Online (CD-ROM)

Please be advised! Many of these games are shipping with CD keys that are invalid. To add insult to injury, Funcoms customer service is close to non-existant and it could take several weeks and access to a fax machine to resolve your problem. The official message boards are flooded with complaints and there hasn't been a single post from Funcom to give any help or advice or even the slightest whiff of anything resembling an appology for what is an absolutely stupid and totally avoidable mistake