Archlord

by nHn

Product Features

• Pick from either Humans, Elves or Orcs -- and stake their place in the history of Chantra as you rise to become ArchLord
• Take arms with an advanced combat system allowing for incredible effects, special moves and breathtaking combos
• Fully exploit your weapons, armour and items with the most advanced item upgrade system yet; craft spiritual stones of power each with their own unique attributes
• Jaw dropping graphics bring the ever-evolving world of Chantra to life
• Incredible in-game audio recorded by the world famous London Symphony Orchestra bring the world of Chantra to life!

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000H2BUFU
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches ; 2.2 pounds
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: October 4, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 1.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #35,782 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

For the first time ever within any MMORPG you rise to become the ruler of an entire game world! Embark on your adventure to become the one mighty ruler of them all and take control of vast worlds, sprawling towns and cities. Control the world's horrific monsters to wreak havoc on your cowering enemies. Set in the mystical medieval land of Chantra, embark on your deadly adventure to become the one ruler of them all! In ArchLord the true fate of a world is in your hands -- how you exploit this incredible power is up to you.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Archlord: You couldn't make a worse MMO if you tried, October 26, 2006

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Michael Kelley (Prince Frederick, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Archlord (CD-ROM)

I participated in the open beta of Archlord, enticed by the great graphics and a break from World of Warcraft, which has become repetitive to me. I was utterly disgusted by this game within two hours. I didn't play long enough to encounter the serious bugs mentioned by the previous reviewer, but he's not alone in his claims. I simply cannot confirm nor deny that.

However, that doesn't really matter. I was shocked to find out that the game really wants you to move using a click-to-move interface. What's worse is that if you click to move somewhere, there's almost no chance your character will get there if there is *anything* in the way. Tree stump? Groundhog? No deal. To move, you literally have to click 5 feet in front of you every 3 seconds until you get to your destination. Fun!

I much prefer the W-A-S-D keyboard movement control with mouse look, the standard in just about every first person shooter and every successful MMO (WoW, EQ, CoH/CoV, the whole bunch). Guess what? Keyboard control is crippled in this game. Sure, W moves you forward, but A and D turn you at a 45-degree angle only--there is no smooth movement. In fact, movement is ridiculously awkward, and the camera was flipping all over the place.

Compound this with clicking to move and clicking to attack are the same mouse click! No! I was trying to run *past* that slime....I didn't mean to attack it! On the flip side, there's nothing like being in a heated battle, and you go to click to attack, and you accidentally run into another group of baddies because you *just* missed the enemy and clicked to move instead. Nice!

One last point: The entire purpose of this game is to become the Archlord, the most powerful person in the entire server. Anyone reading this try to become highest ranked PvP in WoW? Most servers have 1-3 top-ranked people (Rank 14) and less than 1% of all active players make it past Rank 10. If you are married, have a girl/boyfriend, or have a job (full- or part-time), you'll never be archlord. It's going to be some unemployed dude or a kid that has unlimited play time.

Why buy a game whose ultimate goal is something you'll never reach?

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible, October 23, 2006

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Windmills - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Archlord (CD-ROM)

The fact that this game was released as a "finished" product blows me away. The amount of serious bugs in the game that have not been addressed entering the third week of retail is astounding. Every time a patch arrives to fix a known issue, several more things in game are broken.

All that aside, even if the bugs get fixed, I think I would find more variety in busting out an Atari 2600 and playing Joust for three hours. The grind in this game is terrible - I hit lvl 31 last week and won't be touching this game again.

If you are a 12 year old with no life, 100 hours a week to grind through levels and enjoy smack talking and killing characters 20 levels lower than yourself to have fun, buy Archlord. Otherwise, please do yourself a favor and save the money for something else...

1.0 out of 5 stars Should still be in Beta, November 1, 2006

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Jeff Ball "strippingpope" (Oregon) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Archlord (CD-ROM)

I too was part of the beta for the game. It was fun in beta... as part of beta you expect there to be bugs and issues so they don't annoy you quite so bad.

Then some brilliant person thought it was ready for release... wow... first day in game no one ran anywhere, just gliding no toon movement when attacking just standing in front of the enemy with damage counters going over your heads. the auction house took forever before you could actually post auctions and even now you have to collect your money from one sell, log out, log in, collect money from the next item sold repeat as needed until you get your cash for each item. FOr participating in certain events or pre-ordering and things like that you get special in game items... problem is only a couple of them actually are coded properly to have their effect on your character.
This game should still be in beta, don't throw your money away on it until its bug reports diminish drastically. Even then only buy it if you seriously love PvP and pretty much nothing else... the quest lines are lame and repetative, not much in the way of character customization, only 3 races without special things for each race just classes... hell you can't even choose between male or female. you wanna be a moon elf... you're female... apparently the moon elf men don't adventure. you want to be a human archer your male.

Last thing... I second the previous reviewers comment about the click to move choice... everyone else uses WASD for a reason, it works. click to move is just way to choppy, especially with your character only moving in a straight line and stopping at every rock in the way.