If you played WoW, or FFXI you'll likely be disappointed, don't play the game without some level of tolerance. this ISN'T WoW, no powerlevelling. powerlevel and your skills will be left to die. you need to skill many things, or else your character will be so imbalance it's useless, and, as with all games it gets harder to skill at the later levels. again, this isn't WoW. If you like anime to ANY extent, however, you will love this game, or at least find a warm spot in your heart for it.

There are many little niggles-- such as movement; choppy translations or the user interface. Action bars can have the same in them only once, unless you have the corresponding number of items, which negates using a different action bar for each situation. Some people are annoyed by the size of the dialog box and the fact that you can't resize it-- didn't bother me, personally.

Storyline needs some work. okay, a lot. okay, maybe it just needs a decent translation, it feels like they've left some stuff out, there. now, onto the game itself. First of all, RFO is >HEAVILY< PvP based. levels 1-29 are basically skilling, killing NPC level-chaff, acquiring the items ready for level 30, when basically you will be drafted en-masse to go PvP, Raiding the telic mines to kill off miners, or straight-up fighting for control of said mines.

Combat; it's wonderful, think of a serious clan-war on Ultima online, add in about ten thousand times that hp for each character, give them pistols, guns, rocket launchers, swords, knives, bows, rotary cannons and you'll just about have it. oh, can't forget the flame-throwers. Or Giant mecha. unfortunately (well, fortunately in a bellato player's case) as soon as a bellato player reaches level 30 (the level I mentioned earlier-- pvp time~) they gain the ability to drive giant mechs called MAUs if they take a class change to driver. You won't just find one MAU walking around, either. battles in this are HUGE, no understatement. and they are beautiful, too. armies clash, then retreat to lick their wounds while the rangers of each sides continue to blast away, until the armies clash yet again. An amazing game in all respect, but not for WoW players, imo.

Last few niggles deserve to be mentioned: on each server you have to choose a race, so you can't have say a Bellato specialist and an Accreatian ranger on the same server. you have to choose either Bellato, Accreatia or Cora, and then can have three characters, which is annoying, but I guess if you're trying to socialise with your accreatian buddies it can be hard to say 'oh, but yeah... sorry, but I was kinda that Bellato ranger who singlehandedly murdered you all... sorry about that...' Soundtrack deserves a few marks, but eh, it gets repetetive. might wanna stick some Trance or Jpop on for this. Halko<3 final statement? get the game and play it. 30 day trail period. best MMoG I've played for a while.

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~Frost~