Phantasy Star Online, Episode I & II Plus

by Sega

Product Features

• Play on or offline and choose to play the Light or Dark decks
• Hundreds of cards, for an impressive collection of weapons, creatures and spells
• Win additional cards in battles and trade with fellow players
• Fully playable offline and via the GameCube's Modems or Broadband Adapter
• Special bonus features - Three essential Episode 2 quests - Seat of the Heart, The East Tower and The West Tower

Product Details

• ASIN: B0002LA59I
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,755 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

In this version of Sonic Team's award-winning PSO series, you get two games in one. Episode I contains all the hit content from the original PSO and PSO ver.2, while, Episode II brings a brand new full-length adventure. With real-time combat and enemies that are more powerful than ever before, you'll venture deep into lush worlds filled with mystery and intrigue.

For offline gameplay, Episode I & II Plus brings intense split-screen battles for up to four players on the same console. Additionally, you play quests and mini-games from PSO I & II that were previously only available online. Plus also includes three Episode II quests: Seat of the Heart, The East Tower, and The West Tower; five multiplayer Challenge Mode stages; and two downloadable mini-games: NiGHTS - Score Attack and Puyo Pop.
Features:

• Test your endurance with Challenge Mode, or reign as the supreme champion of player vs. player combat in Battle Mode.
• Explore new dungeons, uncover new rare items and download new quests!
• Real-time combat against new, more powerful monsters.

Product Description

Phantasy Star Online I & II Plus collects the two classic online role-players and adds a world of bonus content to reward its true fans! Enjoy thrilling turn-based combat with decks of cards, and play essential Phantasy Star quests. Two downloadable GBA mini-games, plus Score Attack and Puyo Pop for never ending fun

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great game, January 11, 2005

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J. Sheaffer "Game Guy" (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Phantasy Star Online, Episode I & II Plus (Video Game)

If you like to play games for 200+ hours, then this is the game for you. There is millions of different items, weapons, and other stuff to find. If you follow the missions you'll discover a delightful story and characters. Enjoy!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally purchased for myself..., January 18, 2007

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Lyndsey Schaubroeck "hack girl" (Ames, IA USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Phantasy Star Online, Episode I & II Plus (Video Game)

I have played PSO with my best friend for a couple years, and when he left for the Fleet in the Marine Corps, I couldn't play anymore because he took it with him :( I broke down and bought a NGC and this game was the first on my list. The game arrived in excellent condition and I've needed to buy another memory card just to keep up with my character list now ^_^

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good... repetative... but good, August 9, 2005

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Douglas C. Sage "video dude" (Michigan) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Phantasy Star Online, Episode I & II Plus (Video Game)

This game is pretty darn good. It's graphics are detailed, the sound is of decent quality and the story line actually makes sense.
We'll start with the storyline. If you don't pay attention to the rambally of the principal at the beginning of the game you won't know why the heck your fighting until the 3rd or 4th level. It turns out you're in a spaceship with a ton of people looking for a new home planet -Your misson: Fight through the alien monsters and see if it's safe. There are no cutscenes which is a definite time saver but you end up forgetting about the story in general through out the game. The end of the game kinda leaves you hanging too...

Next, the gameplay. The game could definitly use a tutorial i got killed like 5 times before i got the rythem of the game. Other than that though it's great. You go around different areas such as forests, caves, mines, runes, temples, spaceships and some others and kill monsters. What's great about the maps of this game is that it has the "maze element" but not so much to the point where you get frusterated and turn the gamecube off. Occansionally you'll turn around and retrace your steps but you always find your way through. You attack in a combo up to 3 hits at a time. You can choose a fast, but weak attack, and slow but strong attack or a very slow but special attack (such as lightning, freezing, steal money, steal health etc.) in a rythmic pattern. As you progress though the game you can find and buy different weapons, powerups and armor. Nintendo pros will even spend much time on this game due to multiple things. #1 you can choose from 3 different classes: hunter (melee) ranger (gun-ranger) or a mage type (range-magic). #2 each class has different attributes such as robot, human male, human female, girl robot etc. #3 There are different difficulty levels, once you beat normal you can try hard, then very hard, then ultimate. And best yet you can play online! (requires and gamecube internet adapter though...)

Lastly, the graphics. If you're looking for a game with realistic, beautiful, colorful backgrounds, i can't say i'd recommend this game. The graphics are nice... but a little cartoony for my taste; the monsters don't have much detail (for instance it took me 3 months to relizes the evil sharks had dark green scails) and although the backgrounds are colorful, not realistic, for example most caves (or at least the ones i've seen) don't have lava waterfalls with a metal bridge going over them...

Anyway over all it's definitly worth buying and playing. (I'm still trying to beat very hard mode with a ranger...)