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Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle
Published by: NCsoft |
Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle - Game Review (PC)
By Emanuel Avram
Published: April 17, 2007
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Here is some information to help you get the idea: I will start with the game engine. Lineage II uses the good ol' Unreal 2 engine. What? Yes you heard me! I couldn't believe it myself! Come on, Unreal 2 looked good... The graphics in Lineage are... let's not be harsh... mediocre. But hey, you don't have to believe me, have a look for yourself:
I did however like the way your character casts spells, and the (obviously Final Fantasy inspired again) way your character levels up: a light from the skies and white feathers. Water looks good, but then again this happens in all recent games. The water reflects your character on it, which is pretty cool, but the reflexions are way to... how should I put this... "unreal?"
Animations are even worse, your character has wooden legs that never bend when running. Monsters don't seem to "really" attack, they just come to you and stay there while they do damage.
"Lineage II is an epic adventure of strategy, teamwork and immense challenge" says the box. Well, I am sure they aren't lying but, even if since the launch this game had over 15 million players worldwide (until present day), and currently has 1.5 million subscribers, the game is getting old. New players aren't coming anymore. For a new player like me it was very very hard to start in a practically empty area. I can count on my fingers on one hand the number of players I've seen (and no, despite of what you may think, I'm not a mutant freak - I don't have 12 or something like that). The longest conversation I've had with someone in this game was "Hello". And again, it's not like I don't like to talk.
Anyway, let me see what else... Oh yes! The music. The music is kind of addictive, I found myself singing along or humming it in the bathroom... Didn't notice anything special about the sound effects though.
Hmm I am thinking now what pictures to link here so they won't look the same... Tough! You can be a mystic or a fighter when you start the game, and one of the five races: Humans, Elves, Dark Elves, Dwarves and Orcs. Dwarves cannot be mystics however. But these two classes are just the beginning as you can specialize more as you reach certain levels (starting at lvl 40): for example mystics can become wizards or healers, and so on.
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