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Stay far away from this game!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 69 / 98
Date: February 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is one of those games that you think is the greatest thing ever invented when you first load it up. However, after a while, you will realize that this game is absolutely terrible. THIS GAME IS 100% HACK AND SLASH! The quests are no fun, since dozens of people are camping them. Getting yourself equipped is no fun, since even more people camp the chests and monsters with items (which are few).

Every place that is interesting is crowded. Sure, the world is huge. But 95% of the world is completely uninteresting, so everyone ends up in the few places that are worth going to. Then, your computer slows down from all the people, you get portal stormed away, and you can't read your chat window because so many people are talking.

You see all these reviews, raving about how great the game is. I was like that too. But in a month or two, after you have wasted all your time making a powerful character, you will ask yourself, "What now?" The answer: quit; but you won't want to because you spent so much time creating this powerful character with neat weapons and armor. The only thing you can do is get more and more powerful, for no reason other than to get more and more powerful.

There are no quests to save the world, no secret items to find, nothing. Absolutely nothing. Asheron's Call is basically one big fancy chat room. After you get bored killing the monsters (which are insanely easy to kill, no monster needs more than one player to kill it), and you WILL get bored killing monsters, since they provide little XP. After about level 40 you need 10,000,000 XP per level (and that rises exponentially). But the most XP you can get is 15,000 per kill, from monsters that are very rare (level 159 Tusker Guards, etc). So think about it. You are killing thousands of monsters. And they all do nothing but run directly towards you, so if there is a wall you just shoot at it (you can shoot through the walls) as it runs at the wall. Fun fun fun. After you get bored killing monsters, then you go Player Killer and kill other players. But you will find that some loser has spent much more time endlessly killing monsters and is level 70. So even though you are level 40, you will get murdered non stop. It's just no fun. So it's a fancy chat room, with Quake 3 added in (but not nearly as intense as Quake 3).

If you want to pay alot of money for that, fine. Online 3D MORPG gaming has not reached it's pinnacle yet. Save your money, your time, and your pride. Don't end up like me: looking back at months of time completely thrown away. I am ashamed and humiliated. Watching TV would have been more useful (and fun) than playing Asheron's Call.

Also, there are no houses or insignia yet. The designers lied about that. It is buggy and you will find yourself losing valuable possessions due to lag bugs in the game, and if you lose things due to THEIR bugs, they will NOT help you get anything back. There also aren't really any people coordinating the game. Little kids run around swearing at you and stealing all your stuff. You can report them, but they must be caught 3 times in a row (and they never get caught because they keep no log of what people say, a sentinel must be there at the time of the incident, which is rare) before they are suspended for a day. You can guess how effective those countermeasures are.

Positives: The graphics are great, the world has no zones (except dungeons), and you can greatly customize the look of your character to be unique. This last thing is the best part of the game. The second best is the allegiance system, which is perhaps the perfect solution to helping out newbies. If only they took all the good parts and made it into a memorable game.

Take it from an experienced player, don't listen to people who just bought the game.

Some things parents need to know about Asheron's Call

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: September 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

While the game is enjoyable as an adult... it has one serious problem for anyone easily offended or thinking about buying it for their kids. Microsoft (who controls policy for game play) will not take any action on anything said via a private message to you from any player. It may be death treaths, it may be racist hate speech, it may simply be harrassing messages of a violent sexual nature. "Nothing" will be done to players sending these messages... it is their policy that anything sent via private messages is just that... private. That being the case, I highly recommend choosing another game if you are easily offended or plan on letting your children watch and/or play. The game is advertised as for ages 13+, however... due to the violent and graphic in nature messages you will recieve, the true age group is likely 21+. I enjoy playing, but have quickly filled up my allowable list of players I can "squelch" so I won't have to listen to the profanity, threats, and general harrassment.

banjo kazooie

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 26
Date: January 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

hell what kind of game is this

DON'T BUY THIS

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: September 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I regret the day I bought this game for my teenager. It isn't reality, it isn't even three times removed from reality. Make your teenager go outside or read a book or do chores or get a hobby. Turn the computer off, it's only wasting his life.

HORRIBLE GAME WASTE OF MONEY

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: October 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is a horrible game. I'll admit it is addictive,but what is the point of the game?? There isn't one it's unbeatable. Now you may not play to win and (i have played this game for a long time and know just about every thing there is to know about the game)you just want to play for fun.WRONGE GAME!!!!! Unless you buy a charactor on ebay or have friends with high levels charactors it's really hard to get started.If you play to kill others all I can say to you is have fun getting killed 100000000 times. There are super power monachey who OWN dungens. That means if you go there you die.And there are clans that own EVERYTHING! If your not level 50 at least your fun turns in to a bad time. If you make you charactor wronge (you'll realize later if you did)the game sucks. If you get the game you'll be addicted at first. After you play for a year or so it becomes alot less fun then it becomes less and less fun.Trust me this game IS A VARY VARY BAD GAME!!!! By the wasy im not really 12 just dont have an amazon email. Im realy 15 i started at 13 when I bought the game.

Limited playability

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 20
Date: October 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Sure, this game has got stuff to strut, but the on thing that made me bring it down to that one measily star is that fact that you never own the game. you have to pay to play, which is a factor that certainly draws my attention. When i buy a game, i like to play it online through the company's server that is FREE (how the heck do you think Blizzard does so well??!!). This is in my mind, a typical scam, and ill have no part in it.

WHY?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 23
Date: April 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I don't understand why you have to pay for a subscription after you've bought the game!! I mean, you buy the game and then you have to pay another ten dollars every month! I mean, come on people!

Pointless Microsoft clone of EQ

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 27
Date: July 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Okay, here it is in a nutshell. The graphics bite, and bite HARD. The spell component system is so difficult that playing hack and slash by default is much more preferable. And there is little if any help by the GMs. My two cents. Buy at your own risk.

Terrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: July 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Asherons Call is a terrible game.The game play is to easy and,all the servers are what some people called "Tweaked".Which means the whole point of the game can basically be given to you by someone else.It get VERY VERY boring after your free month maybe thats why it is FREE!!! I do not encourge buying this game....It is very time consuming and you will be glad to turn it off after your first month.

MS here's the Call.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 21 / 55
Date: November 23, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I am an avid player of quite a few online games (Ultima Online, EQ, Diablo, etc...) and I must say that I find M$'s entry into the market quite lame. Yes, it's a huge world. Yes, it's got pretty graphics (Hence the 2nd rating star). Yes, it's got "Make money from addict RPG'rs." written all over it. But truth be told, the game has zero content and depth. Games like EQ and UO give you a feeling of things moving and changing around you as well as a sense that your actions also make a difference. Asheron's Call, on the other hand, gives you the feeling of playing in an upscale version of Redneck Rampage (no disrespect meant to that game which is enjoyable in it's own right). For a game that tout's a 3-D immersive enviroment, they should at least let you immerse yourself in the local lake. Unless of course you like feeling akin to a minor deity and run across it while outrunning some local nasty. Suffice it to say, M$ had a chance of introducing a great, mind-blowing online world to the hungry RPG market, but instead gave us a poor rehash of what is already available with the addition of a bit more graphic eye-candy. Save your money for Diablo II.

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