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A customer on 9/22/2000 2:46:55 PM

Asheron's call just keeps getting better.

After playing Asheron’s Call for 8 months and attaining a level 75 character on the hardest of the servers, DARKTIDE (the all PK world), you would think I would be getting bored! Not true! Even as one of the most powerful players in the game there are still more challenges. Thanks to the updates that are put in every month there are monsters that can kick my arse in a heartbeat, new quests to complete, and areas of the world I have never even seen before. All this not to mention the ongoing battles and wars fought by all of the different monarchies on Darktide. My advise to you? GET Asheron’s CALL NOW! Play in Darktide, the world where everybody are player-killers all the time. You won’t be disappointed.



A customer on 9/21/2000 1:19:11 AM

I'M GOING TO DIE PLAYING ASHERONS CALL!

I cannot get away from my computer for more than a number of hours. I have a feeling that I’m attached to the computer. Asheron’s Call has got me addicted and I need rehab. Beautiful gameplay, Beautiful graphics, Beautiful everything. Why do I even bother going outside. The world of Asheron’s Call surpasses the one I live in by a longshot. I know that if I die I will probably end up buried with a copy of Asheron’s Call. Asheron’s Call is now a major part in my life. For those of you out there that wish to leave your world behind. Come join this one. You’ll be glad you did. And remember when the times are rough just stick with it they will soon become better than they ever were.



A customer on 8/31/2000 3:20:59 PM

Really great game (blows Everquest away)

Ok everyone. I am sure all RPG lovers are into EQ. But I can tell you right now that Asheron’s Call blows that game away. This is a fully immersive game, with may different classes to choose from. be an awesome spell-casting mage, or a bad-to-the-bone swordsman who can fight just about anything and come out on top. This game lets you interact with many people, be it RL friends or just gaming ones. Allegiances, not found in EQ, let you experience companionship in your hunting. This game has been the only one I have played in some time. So, all you parents out there: buy this game and your kid will never want to play another. And the violence and gore factor is kept low, for fun for all ages. Be it just hanging at the Hebian-To pub with your friends, or hunting in the deadly Direlands, Asheron’s Call is, in my opinion. The best game on the market. (BTW: it just recently won the award for best online game of all genres!!) Good Luck, and happy hunting!!



A customer on 8/25/2000 2:58:46 PM

Best game that I've ever played!

... and I've been playing computer games for over 20 years! I've been playing this game for over a year (I was in beta) and never run out of new things to try. One reason is that new content is added every month. Another is that the game world is so huge that it takes months just to visit all the significant locations.



Warning: this game is very addictive and will consume all available spare time if you don't exercise self control. While I can play it on my laptop, for best effects you need a good 3D graphics card.



One of the best parts of this game is the freedom you have in your playing style. You can create a character with any mix of skills that you want instead of being limited to specific combinations as many RPGs do. You can play 5 different characters on each of the 6 game servers, so you can try all sorts of combinations.



Unlike solo RPGs, here you really feel like part of a community. There are many support web sites to assist players in character development, sp



A customer on 8/18/2000 2:29:01 PM

Deserves 6 stars

OMG - is all I have to say (OMG = Oh My God, for those of you less familiar with technobabble)



This is one of the most incredibly addictive games I have ever played. Every time you log on, get ready to experience something new. The best thing about it is the monthly changes/updates to the game, automatically updated!



I attribute the Allegiance system to making some wonderful new friends (a few I have actually met in real life)



I will keep this short and sweet, BUY THE GAME, you will LOVE IT. Although, some night at about 4am you will probably hate me for telling you about it. I am still mad at my best friend for introducing the game to me because I get very little sleep now :)



Meet you online! I am living in the world "Morningthaw" and known as "Rojon Diemsun" please look me up when you get there ;)



A customer on 8/10/2000 1:00:48 PM

Great

These couple guys that gave this game a one star are just stating what they think, well except for the one below me who is just bias. Sure, the graphics are second rate, but games arent about graphics ( Quake III doesnt count).

The monsters in this game are pretty cool if you ask me, the weapons are way cooler than the ones in Everquest, and it is a verry enjoyable experience. The storyline can get confusing but once you get into the game you start to get it. Once. This is better than any MMRPG out there if you ask me, but thats just me.



A customer on 8/10/2000 10:47:13 AM

Incredibly fun and Addicting...

This game is fantastic. I was skeptical about buying it with the 9.99 per month charge(first month free), but it was WELL worth it. The graphics are superb (night/day and seasonal changes are cool) and the world is ever changing. Unlike Everquest, who’s world stays static until you buy another expansion pack, AC is updated once a month with new quests, weapons, towns, items and so on.



The gameplay is great and is a little more advanced than simple RPGs. In AC, when going into battle you highlight you opponent, but also have to choose "high", "middle" or "low". Selecting the wrong level of attack can cost you your life against an equal leveled monster. Also, Pking has it’s own server and PK can ONLY kill other PKers. So the average Joe is kept safe.



As for character development, while levels do mean something, it’s really how you allocate your accumulated experience points, as to how good you become. There are so many places to allocate them, which makes for very different characters (from others at equal level) down the road.



Even death leaves you with a challenge. You lose items upon death, which are left on your corpse. Your corpse cannot be looted by other players for a certain amount of time, depending on you level (5 minutes per level). This makes a quest out of finding your corpse and grabbing the items you lost before they become free. Also, what makes it even more challenging when you die, is you incur a "Vitea" penalty. All your stats are reduced x%. until you earn enough experience points. This really makes for a great challenge and reduces the "suicide" runs people make.



All in all, this game is fantastic and HIGHLY recommended to those who like RPGs. Be warned though, it IS addicting.





A customer on 7/29/2000 8:19:24 PM

A Waste

What the hell, this is the worst game I have ever played. First of all you have to pay a rip off $10 a month, and second of all, the game can only be played online.



Basically all you do in this game walk around and kill these white cats, how boring. This is not even an RPG. Plus I have a 650MHz PC and the graphics are terrible. I think Superman 64 or Donkey Kong Country for SuperNES has better graphics then this game. Characters are extremely low polygon, blurry textures, with foggy backgrounds with a slowdown in framerate to 1 frame per second. Damn. When I compare the graphics of this game to Zelda 64, Zelda 64 looks like it is a game for Dolphin or PS2.



I dont what is up with Microsoft, maybe they are spending too much time on their X Box. If this game was put on Dreamcast or XBox with little tuning up it should get a 0 out of 100 for everything especially graphics and gameplay, and sound, there is absolutely no sound in this game. The Sound gets a -100 out of 100.



After playing this game for 5 minutes, it seems like Carmageddon 64 is like the best game ever.

And who is Asheron? "Asherons Call" it should be called Asherons Fall, the fall in gaming evolution. Or is it Asheron calling Microsoft, saying improve me, before the SuperNES outperforms me.



A customer on 7/20/2000 7:06:07 AM

Always changing, always fun and challenging

I played Asheron's Call in beta and it was GOOD, very good. I had previously played Ultima Online for slightly more than a year, so I was familiar with massively multiplayer Internet games.

AC is so much more satisfying than Ultima Online that it's hard to cram the reasons into sub-500 word review. Here's a specific difference, one of a thousand differences: in Asheron's Call, there is a Player-Killer server, where ALL players are able to kill one another.

On all other AC servers (there are currently about 6) players become capable of killing other players ONLY after accomplishing a difficult quest and undergoing a ceremony at the Player Killer Altar, which transforms them into a player killer.

After that, player killers can kill OTHER player killers but NOT any player who has not chosen to become a player killer. Get it? Player killers can kill each other -- as well as monsters -- while all other players battle only the monsters in the game. This eliminates a LOT of anger and misery, while allowing Player vs. Player combat to flourish.

Every month there is an amazing update that advances the AC "story" and introduces new monsters, weapons, dungeons, materials, spells -- even new land masses. And there is NEVER a charge for these updates.

I've played games for years, on and offline. I used to run a BBS with an early roleplaying game called Legend of the Red Dragon. This game is the best, the coolest, the most incredibly detailed game on the planet.

I'll end with this statement. After EIGHT MONTHS of fanatical play, I saw territory and places in the game this week that I'd *never seen before*!! NOT because they were new, but because I'd just never gotten around to exploring in those areas. And there are LOTS of other places I've never seen, and monsters I've only heard about.

An hour ago I was KILLED by a group of THINGS that were transparent and humanoid, had WINGS, and HERDED me, very cold-bloodedly, toward a mountain ravine. After I was cornered, they hurled pyrotechnic spells at me. I died.

I had never seen or HEARD of these things. I was in a previously safe area, making a routine supply run, and I'm level 42, with two schools of magic and a killer bow skill. No help.

This is as good as gaming gets. The Turbine Software folks are brilliant weirdos. They started out in the living room of one of the programmers, got bought up by Microsoft, and never looked back.

This is the one to buy and play. Forget Evercamp. Forget UO, with 8 dungeons -- AC has more than 160 dungeons, although nobody is really sure. You might as well start now, because this is the game everyone will be playing in a year.



A customer on 7/11/2000 2:04:07 PM

What a great game!!!!

I've been playing this game for 3 months and I love it! I'm the type of person that won't stay on one game for more the a week or two, I get bored fast with most game, but I still spend sleepless nights playing Asheron's Call, it's just too good. There is always something to do or to see, you can never know what you'll find. This is surely one of my top 10 best games I've ever played in my life.



A customer on 6/25/2000 3:30:01 PM

Great game for anyone who likes to use magic

Overall, this game is a great experience for anyone who hasn't played EQ. It is a bit unbalanced, since you MUST have Item Enchantment(a form of magic) to do much later on. Creature Enchantment would also be helpful. Magic is really stressed in this game, so if you want a pure warrior, go to EQ or UO. Otherwise, it's an awesome game. And you're not invincible at level 50, thanks to the new update.



A customer on 6/4/2000 11:06:05 PM

Perhaps Addicting Isn't a Strong Enough Word...

There's addicting games, like Age of Empires II and The Sims, and then there's the truly immersive games. Asheron's Call is one of those truly immersive games. This game practically demands you end your social life: it's that addictive. There's something for everyone: whether your fantasy is to be a master sorcerer or to be an almighty swordsman (my own little dream), Asheron's Call let's you live out your uttermost fantasies. One small hint though...never go to Arwic if you seriously dislike lag.



~"Guardia" and "Alcinder Cf" of Morningthaw



A customer on 6/4/2000 10:04:05 PM

Excellent RPG

The story line is never ending and the world is always growing. The graphics are decent and are being upgraded every few months. I am hearing about a new graphics engine to be implemented soon and that should rock. The game plays well on pings that would make 1st person shooters unplayable. The AI isn't great, but challenging and the coolest feature in my mind is the trade system. No, no there isn't an actual game feature for trade... trading is done realisticly, with one person giving another person something, and then recieving payment. Quest items become forms of currency and new players will find very eager patrons to support them throughout their gaming experience. This game is a classic and a must have.



A customer on 5/13/2000 10:59:39 AM

Asheron's call is an addicting game.

In this game you fight creatures that are hunting you. You can fight in groups with other actual people online. You can even talk to people in this game. You gain levels by killing creatures by using magic, bow, sword, and unarmed weapons.

If you choose to buy this, you will be satisfied.

So buy it!!



A customer on 4/30/2000 6:33:58 PM

What a waste

If you have seen my post on EQ you know what games I have played. I am a very experienced Role player and this game is far from it. The storyline is ok, but how boring. In Everquest, level 20 is something to cherish because you EARN your last name, Asherons call its just another level. At level 50 NOTHING is stronger than you, u can defeat everything... wheres the fun in that? In Everquest you need to group because no one is more powerful than the next. This game is too unbalanced, not all classes are even. AND YOUR STILL A HUMAN!!! All you role players think this is such a great game, the part of role-playing is trying to act like different creatures at some point, like in Everquest you can be different creatures from a Dwarf to an Ogre. Everquest is a much better game, AND don’t even start with me how bad this game has with lag. EKK its crazy.



A customer on 4/29/2000 10:39:06 AM

A great alternative to the usual D&D Clones

I don't play many CRPGS or online games as I've felt most of them have been unimaginative rip-offs of D&D. Although I love D&D and the officially licenced games such as Baldur's Gate, Planescape, etc. I was looking for something different with an online game. I'm happy to say that AC is it! You won't find any stereotypical monsters or characters in this game and the backstory is extremely original. Combine this with an innovative magic system and more quests / dungeons added each month and you have the makings of something truly great.



A customer on 4/28/2000 4:04:30 PM

WOW

I can't believe how addicting this game is. At first I was sceptical but Boy am i glad I got it. The graphics are awesome and the diversity and creativity of the world still leave me in awe. Character creation is much more indepth than most other Computer games. EVERYTHING is new. New creatures, new towns, nee races. Definately a must for any Online Gamer.



A customer on 4/27/2000 8:24:03 PM

This game is well worth it

Ok, I think this is a very good online game. I got it about 4 months ago, and I still play it at least 3 hours a day. At first, I thought it wasn't that good, but after I started completing quest, and getting deeper into the game, I love it. And with the updated story it wil never get old. They have recently added a big spin on the story, so if you want a good online experience, get this game. The lagg is not that bad untill you get in a crowded area, but the community is great.



A customer on 4/26/2000 10:34:30 PM

Roleplayers delight

How weird....you check out EQ's reviews and all the serious players on there rated it poorly...that should tell you something. This game is very addictive, and you will spend hours playing not because you want to powerlevel..but because you can journey through the lands...seeking new things...a true role-players game. Buy it...then come look me up...we will venture together.



Hartwell the archer





Paul London (palondon@hotmail.com) on 4/20/2000 7:30:48 PM

CANT GET AWAY FROM COMPUTER!!!

This is game is so cool and addicting i cant get up. I love it. It can never really end so you'll never get bored. The combat and magic systems rock as well as the rest of the game. Every aspect of the game deserves 5 stars plus.



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