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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very suprised..., July 26, 2006
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
Anyone that has been looking at buying this game or trying it out... Now is your chance! This is the lowest I have ever seen this game / any of its expansions. Heres why:
First off the story: Dark age of camelot was very fun from the beginning and attracted many people because of its PVP that was liked by so many because you were fighting other "people" instead of monsters, so the bar of challenge and self-performance is greatly hiked. Then with its dungeons that offered good challenges and bosses at the end that required many people to beat, which usually resulted in making a friend or two. With the housing introduced, it was up to everyone to have the biggest and best house, the housing area soon became more populated than the game with people constantly upgrading and changing there housing to be better than their virtual neighbor. This quickly died down of course because of Mythics release of the Trials of Atlantis, which gave extremely hard challenges to higher level players to get very good items. Also introduced where Master Levels: Master levels go from 1 to 10 and are achieved by doing 10 medium to hard steps throughout 1 area of Atlantis, after all these are achieved and you kill the very hard "titan" or "mega boss" at the end of each level, you gain that level, and there fore, whatever abilites you choose at that time. Catacombs, so well done. Its graphics where better than some normal (not massively multiplayer online ones) games that strived for good graphics, they really... really... uped the bar. It also introduced tons of new content, that went
"underground" and gave tons of new experiences. Also the multiplayer was redone, so where parts of housing, which attracted more and more players new and old. Lastly DR, or Darkness Rising, gave even more graphics updates, and class changes. Probably the biggest class change where Champion Levels, which went from 1-5, these where done by comepleting hard-very hard quests for the king/ruler of your realm, (there are 3 realms, and each one has different classes and races that all meeet together and fight in the battlegrounds/PVP.) Each one had greater rewards, the end one gave you your champion weapon. You could choose from class expansion to healing spells, to spells to root your opponent. But the best introduction was the horse that could be rode anywhere and anytime, well besides the cities of course!
The original game came out quite awhile ago and offered good fun multiplayer experiences with well done customer support but not the greatest graphics. The multiplayer (PVP) was the first of its kind in DAoC.
The next expansion, shrounded isles came with a nice graphics upgrade (for its time) and a few more classes to play as, a new race for every realm to play as, more dungeons to explore, and a whole new continent of land to go on. This Also expanded the multiplayer content.
Next was a "download only" expansion pack that was free and introducing a upgraded player housing system, where players can have their own house, custom fit with what they like. Things such as statues on the front lawn, fountains, benches, bushes, most anything could be put out. On the inside, furniture, tapestries, hanging torches, and mounted weapons are a few.
After this the Trials of Atlantis expansion pack was released, this gave the game more races to play, (1 for each realm I believe) a greatly upgraded graphics engine, and 8 HUGE new underwater, (and above-water) areas to explore, each with "arifacts", or "arties" that were the best weapons/armor/items in the game. This also introduced master levels (see top) that let players go beyond the normal level of 50 and accomplish these very hard to complete "trials".
Next came catacombs, with a huge, huge graphics overhaul, sound overhaul, and class overhaul. This introduced 5 new classes to Dark Age of Camelot and a whole lot more. People started playing again because of the great graphics and amazingly increased PVP and multiplayer content.
Darkness Rising, which was also a download expansion, was for higher level players that wanted unique challenges and better armor/weapons. It also introduced horses, which could be bought depending on what champion level you where (see top) and went different speeds and varied in breed color, and size.
In the end this is my favorite MMORPG of all time, and I have played a few. If you have been looking at this for awhile, try it out! You dont have to listen to me, this is a very very low price for this wonderful game, the least you could do is try out the 30 day trial and spend 20$ for the game. Who Knows maybe you'll like it. Hopefully this review was helpful.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Both massive, and not, February 24, 2006
Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars
The game is great, there's a lot of specialization involved with both your character and your gear, there's plenty of new content and updates that have added interesting new twists.
However, its an older game. The populations are declining, so you won't find the same lvl of in-town fighting that you used to. To make up for this, there is the realm vs. realm combat, which throws massive numbers of players into a structured, seige-style combat environment. If you get in with a group that knows what its doing, it can be a lot of fun.
Upside: There's plenty to choose from when specializing your character and the world has a lot of cool stuff to explore.
Downside: If you are looking for smaller PvP battles (anything less than 20 people is small for this game) you aren't gonna find it here. (If you like really big fights, then you've got nothing to worry about).
For the price, its definately worth checking out. The more recent additions have really spiced this game up.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Value, January 28, 2007
Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
This game is a excellent value, 20 bucks for the game and ALL the exspansion packs. This game is very differnt compared to games like WoW it has more of a old school feel to it but has wonderfull graphics. I dont personally play DoAc anymore due to getting bored of it but for 20bucks and that comes with 1 free month buy it! see if you like it.
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