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Fun, but then again...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Asheron's call, I have to admit, is probably one of the most addictive and fun games running currently. However, with the prevailing hack-and-slash melee, and the confusing/frustrating magic system, it begins to get repetitive quickly. Also, if you just plan on having a fun game to play when you get home, go ahead and buy a quality game like Nox (easy multiplayer system makes it so you can play for 5 minutes or 5 hours, with hardly any technical problems) or a nice, well-made single player game like Baldur's Gate II. Also, once you join a monarchy, you get two things: friendship, and OBLIGATION. The updates every month do add a bit of spice to the game, but the main goal of doing nothing or just gaining levels seems quite pointless to me. I mean, if you even get to be a high level, you have to sometime ask yourself a question: what now? Or why is this worth the time I put into it? I hope some people can agree with me when I say this, but get the game. Try it out. Once it gets boring, cancel the monthly subscription, and put it in that case o' CDs you'll never use again because if you DO, your monarchy will have some choice words to say to you...And, before you finish reading this somewhat-pessimistic review, let me say something: If you like having friends, be careful about who you introduce to this game. Some of them can begin to lose interest. Hope this was helpful.

Very Very Good

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have played and heard form people that play role playing games. A big plus about this game is that it has a very wide spread terrian and you can PICK if you want to kill or not to. In other games I play people can kill you just if they feel like it and it gets very very annyoing. Another thing about this game is the charecters. You can pick and be whatever you want to be, and they even have some choices for you. One thing bad about it is that some people are a little out of charecter. Like, they talk about things that obtain to the real world. Other then that, that is the only problum. It is one of the best online games I ever played.

The most incredible experience of my cyber-life

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: December 16, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I can't begin to describe the fun of this game. You make friends all over the place. Thje monsters are great, the social aspects of the game are amazing. I find myself locked in for an average of six hours at a time. Microsoft has a true winner here.

Strong new entry in the Massive-Multiplayer-Online genre

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: November 09, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Asheron's Call, like Everquest and Ultima Online, allows huge numbers of players to adventure together in a fantasy role-playing setting. It features good to great graphics and a HUGE world that you can explore and play around in with your friends. I've played this, EQ, and UO, and Asheron's Call is my favorite!

Very fun and addicting game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: August 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When first starting asherons you create a character from 3 races of humans. You can actually design the facial features of you character so no two characters look alike. In the begining you feel very weak and you should because the world of Dereth is a very dangeouse place for newbies, luckly you have only to make a short run to a town and you can swear into a allegaince of over 1000 people all of witch are ready and willing to help you along. As you get through the newbie age a whole new world opens up to. You dicover new dungeons, new monsters, new weapons, all of witch you never knew were avalible as a newbie. One of the most appealing aspects of the game is with each new lv you gain another part of the world opens up to you. You can also become a patron to a newbie and help guide him through the game as your patron did for you. The higher lv you get the more you understand and apriciate magic also. The only bad things about the game is it is some what unbalanced in some classes such as sword and bow are favored in the game leaving the mages and other weapons classes shorted. Another thing I enjoy about Asherons Call opposed to the other Multiplayer RPGS is the fact that although the world is huge and Dereth has vast history and lore it does not make you feel like you are overwhelmed and lost. Your character is not just another person, you actually make an impact on the world and events transpiring in it. Every month there is a free update to the game you download, the update keeps up the storyline as well as improves and adds new quests and monsters into the game. A major and memeroble event were the Shadow Wars were the new monsters (Shadows) attacked the towns. The event also included a extremly powerfull monster that was controled by one of the developers of the game, it also brought back Asheron himself (also developer controled). The event introduced a maryiad of new weapons and quests along with a huge storyline that everyone from the lv 1 to lv 100 made a impact in. Some technical terms of Asherons Call are the exillent graphics, provided you have a 3D accelerator, and fantastic charcater Emotes. For example you can type *angry* and in the game your character will shake his fist up and down. There are also different trade skills such as alcamey and fletching instead of just fighting. Another thing about Asherons Call is you never truly die, your spirt is attuned to lifestone witch you can change at any time and upon death you are portaled back to the lifestone. Asherons Call is a social game, although it can be played solo, it is much more fun to join allegainces and go on group hunts or quests. The econamy in Dereth is not just the for of money (pyreals), but is based on a everchangeing trade syestem. There are meeting halls and festival areas for tradeing and allegaince groupings. Recently added are casinos and reported to be adding in the upcomeing expansion pack Dark Majesty a character can buy and own houses. Once you get the hang of Asherons Call you will quickly become a familiar with everything said above. It is impossible to tell everything about the game and it would take the fun out of exploring it yourself so i will stop here. The game has a $10 a month fee but is well worth it. I hope I see you in Dereth =)

An instant classic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: January 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Asheron's Call is an addictive RPG based in an online world called Dereth. Microsoft has briliantly taken ideas from many other RPGs adding a few of their own to make this a fun, if slightly addictive, game. The producers did not use any of the traditional RPG "rules", making this game a breath of fresh air after playing games that follow the mold of the traditional RPG.

I'm addicted - but getting bored

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing AC for about 20 months. The game was outstanding for the first several months. The landscape plus the challenge of creating an allegiance of other players to complete quests was fun. As the game went on, cheaters and hackers have ruined the game. Turbine almost refuses to discipline or ban them, I guess they're afraid to lose money. The last 6-8 months, I've noticed that very, very, very few people are joining the game. While turbing has worked to provide low level content, it's not being used. The high level content is there mostly for mages. Warriors are pretty much left out of the fun. In fact, just the other day, my level 67 warrior was having kills stolen by a level 42 mage!!! This should just not happen.

Asheron's Call

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: May 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Asheron's Call offers an unthinkabally huge world for it's players to adventure in and explore. Over the course of the past year Turbine has gotten considerabally better at lag and down time, responding to its market really well.

Pros: Excellent graphics, unique spell system, variety of totally original monster, and social system. Cons: Complete lack of role playing, a primarily classless system leaves most characters rather un-unique, little to do other than ..., very repetitive gameplay.

so - so

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: March 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty fun when you start out as it doesn't have any of the usual monsters that most on-line RPG's do, also you can customise your character to the utmost extream, eyes, face, smile type, color and type of clothes, ect... To play the game you have to pay $9.99 a month. The graphics are very good, especially the enviroments, and actually contradictly to other people I thought the graphics on the characters were pretty good. Anyways this game has a lotta strong points over other on-line RPG's, for one, YOU CAN ACTUALLY BUY ARMOR AND WEAPONS FROM SHOPS AT A REASONABLE PRICE! Something that EQ (everquest) failed to do as it was Impossible to buy the 3000 plat bracers or whatever it was, and you ended up having to buy everything from players. What I didn't like about Asherons Call was that there was no music. The monsters wore thin, and became dislikable. Also,like on UO (ultima online), you have to have certain spell components to cast spells, I really hate that. All in All the whole reason I quit Asheron's call was not because it wasn't fun, but because I didn't wanna pay 9.99 a month for that little bit of fun.

Asheron's Call, the Greatest MMORPG in Existence

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Still alive and well, AC has some life in it. I've played since release and love it more today than I did then. Sure theres a monthly fee, but the game gets new monsters, quests, items, game systems, etc. EVERY month. For many there is no need for another game to play! So that a flat rate there, $ for all your computer gaming for a year! Tis an incredible deal. The above reviews are very old, cheaters have been removed. Wonderful third party applications have been added that enhances the game, allowing one to chat on IRC while in-game, control Winamp while in-game, etc. These fall under the plug-in Platform "Decal", found on Sourceforge. Balance has returned to Asheron's Call, some will always do better at some monsters than others, its the advantages of that class. But thats just it! These days if ya don't like how you've done your char, you can make some adjustments via new quests. The skill system of Asheron's Call is of untold beauty and far out does any other game in existence, especially Ever Quest or Asheron's Call 2. AC is a very social game, allegiances take care of their own and will help many a newbie. However, one can survive very well as a soloer, I am kinda a mixture of both. Theres puzzles, tons of quests, PKing (by choice), Trading (an unimaginably dynamic economy), and so soo much more...

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