Neocron

by CDV Software Entertainment

Product Features

• You'll enter a sci-fi world and survive in a first-person shooter game filled with thousands of allies & enemies
• Enter the game as a Psi-Monk, GenTank, Private Eye or Spy -- build relationships in a massive-multiplayer online game world
• Travel across irradiated deserts and through massive towers as you travel and fight through 250 massive maps
• Unlimited weapons and combos as you fight in underground tunnels for the defense of your clan and city
• Trade shares and items to establish a business presence in your city and become a tycoon

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00007G79Q
• Item Weight: 10.1 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: November 25, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,400 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Neocron: "By the end of the third millennium, Earth has changed... Global pollution, excessive wars and a perforated atmosphere have turned the planet into an almost lifeless sphere of toxic mud. Radiation is everywhere and most animals have either gone extinct or have mutated into bizarre monstrous creatures. The remnants of mankind seek protection from the desolate, scorched world and gathered behind the protective walls of giant cities. These few mega cities became the last lights of hope, in the darkness of Earth's final dusk..." Neocron is the world's first and only MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game) that brings you a dense Cyberpunk atmosphere. It is also the first MMORPG that looks, feels and is almost as easy to play as a 3D first person shooter Play with (and against) thousands of players online in the post apocalyptic world of the 28th century. You become a citizen of one of the last mega cities on Earth (Neocron) and it is up to you whether you want to experience exciting adventures or just lead a normal life in this virtual world

Product Description

Fight against horrible monsters and hideous mutants for power, glory and wealth! / Rated T: Teen

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best MMORPG I've played., December 9, 2002

By 

Julian (Rochester, NY, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Neocron (CD-ROM)

I'll start out by saying that I've only been playing Neocron for a couple of weeks (it only came out in the US 3 or 4 weeks ago.) So far, I completely love the game. I've played other MMORPGs (Asheron's Call, Anarchy Online, Dark Age of Camelot), but Neocron is by far my favorite.

I am a big fan of the cyberpunk, post-apoclyptic setting, and Neocron does it beautifully (both in the specific sense of graphics and sound, and in the more general sense.) I think the developers at Reakktor learned a lot from the experiences of past MMORPGs, and made great strides toward solving many of the biggest problems. PKing is one area where I think they did a great job:
Everyone starts with a "Law Enforcer Implant" - basically an item that prevents them from damaging OR being damaged by other players. This implant reduces EXP and money gain, and makes it harder to use the items in the game (higher stat requirements.) Removing the implant is an easy task, but takes long enough that you won't do it accidentally. If you leave your LE in, you will never have to worry about being PKed. However, once you take your LE out, you can be PKed, but *only* in certain areas - which do not include most of the newbie areas.

Neocron also includes a very robust tradeskill / crafting / whatever you want to call it system. Tradeskills are very important, as many items cannot be bought in stores, or are a) prohibitively expensive, or b) very poor quality.

A very exciting feature of the game is the Outpost system. Outside the city, there are outposts of five kinds: Labs, Forts, Uplinks, Mines, and Factories. A Clan in the game (an organization of players) can go and capture one of these outposts. All the players in that Clan will then receive a bonus to the appropriate skill when at the outpost. This can be vital to constructing high level or high quality items. The outposts are one of the driving forces behind the PvP activity in the game.

I'll conclude by saying that this game is, as every MMORPG I know has been, a work in progress. There are still bugs in the game (though recovering from them is usually painless), and the devs continue to release patches tweaking the existing content and adding new content. Please try this game, but do understand that it is early in its lifetime!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars mixed feelings, November 2, 2004

By 

J. Davidson "TF Lothar" (Omaha) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Neocron (CD-ROM)

This game is one of the most buggy games i have ever played, the customer service sux, getting accounts created and paid for sux. First time i have ever had to work to get a company to take my moeny for the product. The business end of this company is worthless and needs to go back to school.

Having said that this game is also one of the most fun games i have ever played. The players are great the gameplay even with all the bugs and lack of info o nthings is fun and has so much potential. The overall design is brillant.

If you can stand the frustration of dealing with the company and bugs that have been there for years you'll find an enjoyable game to play. If i have to deal with thier customer service or mods/admins not answering questions anymore i'll be one step closer to canceling my account.

Good luck!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Think Blade Runner, Cyberpunk type game., February 21, 2004

By 

M. Madsen (Illinois, U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Neocron (CD-ROM)

Think Blade Runner, Cyberpunk type game. But well done and fully realized in every way. & NOT someones idea that sounded good but never got to reality. Neocron lives, baby!

In this game everything means something. You understand what I'm saying!?

Things like,
Vehicles.
Factions.
Clans.
Trading. with real people in the game.
Saying hello or yes and your player waving and nodding and it goes on and on...
Your own personal E-Mail used between players actually in the game like at your desk in your apartment or at terminals around the entire world..
An in game forum, also one at a terminal in the city or you apartment desk.
Running and jumping, damage taking damage, constructing, salvaging, repairing, hacking, to much to remember, all getting better throughout the game as you choose to allocate your points to your which stats. Etc...

This is a real Man and Woman's game. For the Mature... thank you very much.

I can go on and on but just don't have the writing skills.. Sorry.

I was so sick of tiger & lizard head people and purple furry orcs and goofy looking monsters in all these other games, hint hint EQ SWG AO & Lineage II where even the orcs are good looking and the Elves run around in what looks like their panties? ... Even the Newest Online games are really bad, gee lets stand around and look how good we look talking to eachother games.