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Snore...Not another expansion!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 17 / 62
Date: October 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Seriously, how many more monsters do you need to kill before you get totally bored with this whole genre? All these games are nothing more than a extrmely slow First person shooter. You and your "team/party/clan/guild" fight the Monster/other party so you can get new weapons/armor/magic items to go and fight more powerful monsters/party and so on and so on. A lot of reviewers after me will probably flame this review say there is more to it than that and I ask you what? Interaction with other characters? Why not just join a chat room? It sure is a lot cheaper. There hasn't been any real new inovation since Everquest came out, and no realm vs realm isn't an inovation its just a variation of race war on Everquest PVP servers. I mean "real" innovation, like the abillity to actually affect the game, like if you kill the big bad dragon/monster/god that it dosen't respawn 15/30/60 minutes later with the same items and the same location it spawns. Instead of offering new lands with new monsters to kill why not add some new features like the abillity to become a king or queen of the land and the abillity to control NPC's that own a shop or something to that effect. Until then it's just filler to make more money, Really so now your a 70th lvl wizard with the most powerful DD spell in the land where does that truly get you, can you do anything new other than fight a more powerful monster? I don't know maybe I'm asking for too much but we are paying a monthly charge after all. And belive me I love the idea of the MMORPG and I really want it to work but I think that we have a long way to go. Maybe when the hardware becomes more powerful we can expect more content to the game.

P.S. Just so you know I have played EQ,DaoC,Ultima Online and all my characters made it to at least 40th lvl before becoming totally bored with doing the same thing over and over and over and over.

Big Hit!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 30
Date: October 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I just fired this up, logged in and was the first in the planes of power. I must say it is amazing. I have already gotten 14 planer experience points and phat loot! You must get this or you are dumb.

Gotta have it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you play Everquest you need this expansion or life would not be complete. If you have never played Everquest you should not buy this expansion now. Buy the originl software for ($$$)and learn to play. As a beginnger you will not be able to use this expansion for a very long time...you would die in seconds and be very sad.

Best one yet!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: October 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

By far the best of the expansions, Planes of Power opens up a whole new world to explore: The homes of the gods of Norrath. The music is outstanding (and in MP3 format, I've already added most of the songs to my usual playlist - Check out the poearth music!), the graphics are breathtaking, and the monsters are stunning. I've been playing EQ now for over 2 1/2 years, and it just never gets old. The Plane of Knowledge has an enormous library in the center of it. Want to know more about the world that is the heart of EverQuest? Talk to one of the dozens of book browsers, check out a book from them and read to your hearts content. The Plane of Tranquility is serene, with amazing portals to the rest of the Planes, including a giant balance for the Plane of Justice, and a huge sludge pipe (complete with running sewage!) for the Plane of Disease. The Plane of Nightmare is home to scary spiders and gigantic crocodilian creatures (larger than the old EQ dragons!). There's tons more, and I highly recommend this expansion. It's not just for high-level, uber loot, kill and be number one folks. The Plane of Knowledge has quests and portals to all the cities of the EQ world, plus some more, and isn't level restricted.

It's not a first person shooter...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you're looking for non-stop action and want to blow things up repeatedly, this game isn't for you. If, on the other hand, you're looking for an immersive 3D virtual fantasy world where you can engage yourself socially with other people in death-defying and harrowing adventures, then I would encourage you to buy not only this product, but all of the previous expansions as well. Planes of Power represents the latest installment in a world that is ENORMOUS and offers years of enjoyment.

Know what you're getting

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: October 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Looks like it could be an okay expansion. You can fight the "gods," so time will tell. Still, some notes. The box screenshots show Luclin graphics -- if you play the game straight out of the box you'll get old graphics. Not a big deal, but buyers should be told and they're not. Also, you can't go beyond the first zone in Planes if you're not high level. Nowhere on the box is this mentioned. Transportion issues should have been settled via a patch rather than an expansion.

Something for everyone

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 20
Date: November 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Lots of people regard this expansion as only for high level characters. I am not one of them, however this expansion is not for those new to EQ. You CAN install this stand-alone, but you should start off with the original version (can be downloaded free from Sony), learn gameplay, and then consider this expansion. For those familiar with the game this expansion adds some very useful things indeed. The pedestals you have seen appear in the zones lead to the Plane of Knowledge. This leads to almost every city or zone in the game. No more begging Wizzies or Druids for a port :) There is also a Soulbinder and a bank in PoK. Getting the idea here? I bind my characters here to make corpse looting safer and quicker. If you're capable of binding yourself this is trivial, but to those of us that can't bind, it's pretty nice. All the other Planes in this expansion require your character to be level 46+, but the PoK makes it nice for lower levels, and is one of the best additions to the game.

EQ soon to be replaced by EQ 2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: November 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Planes of Power isn't bad, its nice to see Verant has addressed some travel time constraints with potports. Used to be you'd spend several hours if you wanted to get someplace, waiting on boats etc. Verant took their complaints seriously and three and a half years later we have PoP. If you're not high level, there's nothing in the Planes for you. If you are high level you've probably heard what you need about it from your guild.

If you're thinking of starting Everquest, don't bother. Verant will be coming out with EQ 2 soon enough and even then with their habit of nerfing classes (monk class was made into gimps with most recent nerf), I'm in no hurry to play EQ2. Star Wars maybe. Though expect to see jedi knights nerfed three years down the line.

Disappointed with PoP

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: November 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Having been an avid Everquest player since the initial release of the first product in the series so naturally I was very excited about this expansion. Unfortunately however it appears that since I started playing the design goals of the original Everquest Development team have been strayed from somewhat as a direct result of the current Development team being unable to design new content around the old rules.

As a consequence the arrival of this expansion has heralded a number of alterations to the play style of Everquest, which I personally believe have almost invalidated the fundamental aim of any online game, to keep character classes strength and weaknesses relatively consistant when compared to each other.

The most painfuly bad example of this is the recent change to the monk class. Formerly this class used to occupy a pinch defense role whilst being quite strong offensively. This capability was paid for by a lack of specialisation in either field and a lack of spells. Now however, to suit a new design scheme of a class being either offense or defense, the monk class has been vastly reduced in defense and is comparatively weak compare to classes that have spells in addition to combat skill.

Changes like this are made to suit poor design ability and after three years are not what person expects from this genre. I advise new customers to be aware of Sony's design failing in this regard.

I'd rate 0 if it allowed it.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: November 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Sony Online Entertainment has once again released yet another incomplete expansion full of bugs, character imbalance, stupid time sinks and VERY FEW working quests (strange considering the NAME of the game)...You pay close to [cost] US for this game PER MONTH, shouldnt they at least answer customer service issues? Purchase this game at your own risk, 2 thumbs down once again for Sony Online Entertainment and Everquest.

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