Actually, Markus Persson earned big money on this game, at first you’ll say it looks like crap, but I tell you once you get to play the game you’ll get hooked. I found this game hilarious the first time, I mean who would want to play a game that has very old graphics?

I did. Lol. Minecraft has currently two game modes, firstly is the creative mode, which allows you to create stuff and the resources unlimited. Which means your blocks are unlimited. Here are some photos that were made by some players.

Cool isn’t it?

On the other hand, is survival, which literally means you have to look for potential resources to live. And that’s actually how it goes in Minecraft, like for example you need to look for wood to create sticks and to create shovels you’ll need sticks and a stone. You might be thinking that what’s the purpose for having a survival mode? Where the animals are completely harmless? Think again, or play longer, at night zombies and skeletons arise to kill you. Therefore you have to protect yourself by building a shelter. That’s too much for the information on survival mode.

Moving on, this game is currently being developed, the main reason why this game is like this, it is because the password spread quickly and a lot of people got the chance to play the game. Of course, with all those good reviews coming from players, the demand game goes higher as well. So, Markus Perssonn decided to start selling the unfinished game for $9.

Despite of the game being unfinished people actually rushed in to buy the game and that made Markus Persson rich where the game is actually in alpha status. I advice you to buy the game as soon as possible, because the game is cheap as of now since it’s under development.

Markus Persson has a team right now, he is the manager of Mojang Specifications, together with the team, progress will be a lot faster. So that everybody will be happier. cheers.

A picture on minecraft, an island made into a city. Is that Miami?

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MapleStory is fairly typical of fantasy based MMORPGs. It’s is based around exploring dungeons and battling monsters, while gathering Mesos (money) and experience points as well as items in order to level up. Monsters in MapleStory are never human, which is odd for an MMORPG, instead MapleStory will have you fight the undead, animals, plants, oozes and constructs. The MapleStory world consists of 4 large continents, common to all versions of MapleStory, complete with jungles, planes, mountains, tundra and more. The world is full of towns and cities to explore and interact with other players.  You can play a number of minigames with other players and the chat system is very entertaining considering the amount of expression you can make your character display while talking. MapleStory has a huge number of quests to go on, which centre mainly on overcoming obstacle courses, gathering resources, or defeating monsters and claiming items. When you start MapleStory you customize your character, however you don’t chose a class, instead you are given a beginner job to undertake, while you familiarize yourself with the game. Once you reach level 10 your able to chose your class; Warrior, Pirate, Magician, Thief or Bowman.

Despite having only 2 dimensions, MapleStory has a very engaging graphical style, reminiscent of Saturday morning cartoons. The game world is bright and colorful. MapleStory has an extremely rich 3D backdrop, which changes as you move across the screen. The towns and cities in MapleStory are well defined and memorable. The characters themselves are extremely detailed, and hugely customizable.

MapleStory in game chat.

MapleStory is not without its faults. There is a lot of grind involved in leveling, and at higher levels it can take a good few weeks level up. You should always check the reward for your quest, they can sometimes be pitiful when considering what your tasked to do. The music in MapleStory is good for a while, but it gets repetitive, but luckily there’s a mute button.

Despite its faults, MapleStory is a fun game with charming graphics, you’ll meet decent people, see them talking about the oddest things, and the character you create will really grow on you.

The brilliance of Napoleonic War is the same timer based building and upgrading that was used in Evony Free Forever.  This timer based system is the real-time strategy aspect of the game, and means the player needs to think about what to build next so they have enough resources to build something afterwards, or so they can build a pre-requisite of another building or troop type.  This timer based RTS system means the NapWar player doesn’t need to be there the whole time.  This lends itself to players of other MMORPG games like World of Warcraft or even Evony itself.  As you can switch windows to NapWar and check on your upgrades and if neccessary you can kick off another building or upgrade after the timer has finished.  This is particually useful when playing a game like WoW as when you jump on a ship or griffen to fly to somewhere else, or if there is 2 minutes of down time while waiting for other members of your alliance to gather, you can do a quick window switch, play some NapWar and switch back to WoW.

Also the alliances inside NapWar can take up to 100 people, so if you have an alliance in WoW you can extend your friendship into NapWar and have the same people in an alliance in Napwar.  This will make your alliance stronger as you can talk about either game inside the other game.

The ranking system of NapWar is Prestige.  Prestige is a measure of how big your city is, how many troops you have and how much technology you have.  Building up any of these will make your prestige go up.  Attacking other players takes prestige off them.
Playing NapWar is relatively simple as you can go through beginner quests which teach you how to play.  Once you’re out of the 7 day beginner protection the strategy part comes in.  You need to make sure when you attack someone that you leave enough troops at home so that if someone attacks you then you can defend your city from them.  More Tactics come in as you can now deploy your troops into a rudamentary strategy of defend or move forward.  There is also a graphical representation of the fights and you can even go in and control the fights real time.  This is a new fighting engine and is time and turn based, which works suprisingly well, even on web browser technology.

Fog of War: Napoleonic War is a fun game to play, and with the timer based Strategy system the game player can chose how much time to spend on it.  It could take over your life, or it could be a nice side game while playing another MMORPG.

RuneScape

So the storyline of the game world is based of the world Gielinor, a fantasy realm divided into different kingdoms, regions and cities.  Players will be visiting all of these kingdoms as they advance in the game, both through leveling and quests.  The game has an expansive and free mechanisms for traveling around since the realm is of vast kingdoms.  The easy way and which doesn’t cost anything is on foot.  While there are spells that can teleport you which cost some items and take time to replenish, there are mechanical means of transportation as well which will count towards premium membership and features.

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As usual in MMORPGs, players can customize their characters in the start at the creation of their account.  The gameplay consists of quests and leveling up.  Leveling up is done by defeating monsters (NPCs) which come in different variation for different places or areas.  Players basically have to complete quests to advance more in the realm.  The quests basically are to gather some resources or to kill certain monsters.  Quests reward players gold the economy of the game along with items depending on the quests. The game doesn’t have an storyline which the players have to follow on, making the game a sandbox of random goals and objectives.  Players can combat as told before monsters and other players.  The PvP (Player Vs Player) is only available in certain parts of cities, players can interact with each other through chatting, trading or cooperating in certain cooperative mini games or quests.

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In depth speaking, there are total 24 skills that a player can have and advance on in Runescape.  Though some skills are limited to paying players only adding frustration as a lot of cool stuff is only for the paying players.  Skills are related to everything, the environment, NPCs and other players.  Players gain experience as they use their skills gaining levels in them which allows better interactions as well better yield or out come of a certain skill while sometimes a certain level of skill is necessary in achieving a certain interaction and gaining of resources.

The combat is free from the dependence of character classes as classes don’t exist, players can

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choose anything they want to do in combat and master it.  For example player can choose both sword mastery or wizard mastery.  It doesn’t depend on the character class. PvP combat can be performed in certain areas or mini games but there is also free style PvP in wilderness area where players can engage any player they want along with NPCs for their items or experience. Quests are basically small story lines since there is no main story to the game.  Generally quests require players to either team up and hunt down a major monster or simply to collect and process certain resources, The game’s main economy is gold coins, which can be used to buy weapons, resources and other items in the game.

For the final words for the game.  The game can run on low and high graphics.  While both are not so good looking, running the game on low setting causes less glitches and lag.  The reason the game has been very popular and successful is that it was the first MMORPG among others that was Free To Play but since their success and all the developers are now cheaping it out, some of the fine quests and skills are with held form the free user accounts.  Over all the game is nice to try out but not for the long run.

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Since the game doesn’t have a storyline, there is no grounding for the players.  Players have 4 types of classes from which to choose from.  Players can have all the class types available able in a single server but can only interact between their characters only in the same server, the 4 types are, Fighters, Archers, Mage and clerics. All classes have their own set of strength and weaknesses.
Fighters are the melee type that can choose between sword and shield for high rate of attacking or two handed sword or an Axe as a weapon with heavier damage.  Archers are ranged units that can choose between bow and cross bow for weapons, they have excellent range and posses skills which can cause DoT (damage over time).  Mages are magical type which can buff other players or team mates, they can do great deal of damage with their spells.  Finally the clerics are the healing class, they posses skills that related to healing themselves and others and are more of

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the defensive type.  Note the Fighters and Clerics class are the humans while Mages and Archers are elves though this doesn’t has an affect on the game play.
There are 4 ranks for each class, ranks can be gained as the players level up.  Each ranks allows the players to advance further in the game as well as allow the usage of certain weapons which have ranks for requirements.  The quest systems is typical of MMORPGs, requiring players to kills a certain number of NPC monsters or a NPC Boss monster.  Quests are gained through various NPCs in the cities.  The world consists of cities which have areas around them like forests, deserts, beaches etc from where players can find Monsters NPCs for leveling or quest requirements. In addition to rank, there are also Titles which are given to the players as achievements of performing some certain actions, the Titles can be both negative or positives according to the players act but over all do not interfere with the game play in anyway.

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There are a total 3 kinds of skills players can have to work on.  One are active skills which are used in combat, the second are passive skills which allow the players to perform certain actions or gain advantages or bonuses, the third are miscellaneous skills that contribute towards item crafting or transportation skills.  Another aspect of active skills is that they can be Empowered, allowing the players to improve their skills in more customizing way.  The economy of the game has 4 units, the least is copper then comes sliver then gold and lastly most valuable gem. 1000 copper make 1 sliver  while 1000 sliver make 1 gold coin and 100 gold make 1 gem.
PvP (Player Versus Player) and social interaction has been greatly polished, speaking so social

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players can get married by special premium features from the games cash shop which allows a lot more features than that.  For PvP, players can fight with each other in Free Battle Zones which are present in all the cities, there are not level restrictions for players in Free Battle Zones, though players can form guilds and wage war against other guilds which doesn’t require players to go in to any battle zone to fight, they can fight anywhere they like as long as they find each other in sight.  Players don’t entirely need to form guilds, players can make parties to perform certain hard quests or gaining experience leveling.
Final thought for the game.  The game is very polished in all the aspects of RPG but lacks storyline, though there is much more to its uniques the game gets a 4 star attraction.

Hello Kitty

Collecting resources is the main game element.  Players will be having adventures in cities that are actually named and themed after real famous cities like Paris, Tokyo, New York etc.  To play the game players are required to register a membership at SanrioTown site, the membership is of course Free and allows the players to play the game totally free.
All players represent themselves in the game using Avatars that are, of course, customizable.  The options of customization includes gender, hairstyle, eyes, skin tone, face and even blood type. The combat, as told above, not being the primary focus still has a role in the game.  Weapons come in forms of flyswatters to broomsticks.   Combat initiates when a players clicks on monster and then the players aviator exchange blows with the monsters.  The monsters don’t basically die but faint

after the player defeats them which makes a good sense on how a player can loot them.  The

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MMORPG standard quest system progresses the story line and NPCs are placed throughout the game to keep the players busy with quests.
Unlike the majority of MMORPGs in which game players receive experience and leveling

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cooking, weapons and tools crafting, clothing and furniture. The main income and economy of the game is through Farming.  Crops after being grown can be turned in to items or can be traded with other players.  With advancement players can buy bigger and better farms.
The game play houses an other unique system called “Pet System”.  After defeating any monster there is a rare chance it will drop a pet card which allows the players to summon it for services whenever required making it a pet for the player, different pets provide different types of advantages.

Hello Kitty

The Player Versus Player (PvP) in the game has a different look, players can compete with each other by participating in mini games, there is an ‘Item Mall’ system which is present at the site SanrioTown.com allows players to use real money for in game economy and special features.

Over all, This is a great game, For those who don’t like violence and love Hello Kitty would find this game a full 5 star wonder.

In Travia you are leader or the chieftain of a village in roman times. You have different choices on who you want to play as. For example Romans, Gauls or Teutons. You have the control over your Travia village and the lands around the village as you are the leader. The lands of Travia have resources which you have to gather like wood, clay, iron crops etc. You are expected to gather to expand your economy and village by building new buildings for different purposes which is one of the main features that Travia has taken from the RTS game Age of Empires. There is a building tree which has buildings for growth and economy like granaries and also buildings for military like barracks and archeries. Troops can be trained at the barracks and with them you can raid other villages or defend yourself from other players on the same travia server.

Now the game concept is clear, we can call Travian a MMORTS – Massively Multiplayer Online Real Time Strategy Browser Game. Travia can be very frustrating for those players who not patient since the real time strategy is quite “real” time taking as it is very very slow in performing actions. Increasing resources production would not only take “real time minutes” but also will take resources. In gathering more resources giving Travia a touch of the real world. The downfall of this Online Game is you can only do one type of action at a time like gathering or attacking, but thankfully you can chat and send messages to your friends or enemies during your action time. The map will not only show the map of the area your in but also will tell how much time will it take for you to complete a certain action that your doing.

As you play the game more often you will find that the game mostly does all the work it self, it just awaits your instruction on what to do, which can be somewhat boring to those who are hungry for action. The game basically focused at those games who have used the “Email system” to play mulitplayer the difference being that it is browser based making it automatic yet still a bit boring. But it can be a great game for those who have little time to spend on games, as they can give instructions and comeback later to see what happened and what to command next.

The goal of the game is simple. It is to become powerful and dominate the server you are in. Now its your way to choose, either form Travian Alliances and become one nation under one banner or by conquering your opponents. New players who play Travian with determination can and will dominate the game, but its not a game for an causal person who just wants a taste of it for a few days. The good feature of the game is you can’t lose or win over another. For example if you are being conquered by another, the other player won’t be able to gain control of your last village which would give the chance to keep playing Travian again and expand.

Currently the game has more then a million players registered and playing since the game is Free To Play. This means you will always have someone as your enemy and someone as your friend. The game is built on simple non-animated 2D graphics which are beautiful made anda are guaranteed to make you an addict of the game. Travia however is now losing players to the brand new Free Browser Game of Evony. Evony is very similar to Travia, however it is updated in gameplay and graphics.

After the death of the goddess, Teos was left unprotected and the other gods sought to take control over Teos and created monsters to invade and destroy it. The race of the Dragons ran for the safety of the mountains as the chaos and destuction consumed the world.  As the dust settles Toes is now is watched over by two goddesses and the remaining of the Dumaina race have been divided into two factions, one for each goddess.

The two factions, the Elves and the Vail now continuously find them selves in conflict with each other.  Being fueled from old age tensions.  Soon after the humans join the forces of Elves while the Nordien that were buried under the soils reemerge as “Death eaters” and have allied with the Vail.  These two  factions, the Alliance of Light and Union of Fury now clears Teos from monsters that still remain and have started a never ending war with each other to gain control over the whole of Teos.

Shaiya is an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) which has been rated adult due to its graphical violence and controversial scenes of nudity and depravity.  The game is Free to Download as while as Free To Play.  It should be said it is one of those games that really could be a great fun without having to actually pay for it.  Basically what makes this game unique compared to the rest of the games in the MMO line is that the controls are kind of based as a first person shooter but all the interactions and gameplay is still MMORPG.  Its nice to find that you can actually move around using the modern style of keys (W, S, A, D) instead of old school arrow keys.  While most MMOs support this too but some MMOs lack this ability and don’t give options to change them, no matter which the controls, modern or old, all the games are basically interactive through one button and this is the left mouse click which you will find the same in this game.  There could be more said on the control system but its well enough to say that game has an excellent key mapping for controls.

There are a total of 12 classes to choose from, six for each faction and six styles of gameplay.  The Alliance of Light classes are Defender, Fighter, Priest, Ranger, Archer and Mage.  While the classes of the Vail are Guardian, Warrior, Oracle, Assassin, Hunter, Pagan.  The classes  of Defender, Guardian, Fighter and Warrior are the melee classes, one is based on defensive melee while the other on offensive.  Priest and Oracle are the healing classes and attempt to do their best with groups but they are weak at defense and offense.  The Assassin and the Ranger class are unique as they are basically  still melee gameplay but with high skills in being agile and critical hits.  Archer and Hunter class you can guess from their name are the ranged classes and lastly the Mage and the Pagan are spell casters.

The game is a sandbox type game, player can free level on their own or take quests from NPCs which usually require to kill some monsters.  They players have the ability to choose their difficulty which is an amazing quality of the game as most MMOs don’t support such things.  The player has the ability to chat in the game via a chat box which can be customized for own likes.  Similar to World of Warcraft the player has the ability to have mounts.  Mounts are animals that be ridden and kept as pets.

Another amazingly unique feature is the “Blessing of the Goddess” this ability allows the complete faction on which side you belong receive bonuses that can be enhanced by fighting and gaining points in PvP (Player Verses Player) battles. The bonuses apply to both PvP and PvE (Player Versus Environment).  Usually the bonuses are on health or mana capacity or regenerations.

Over all the game is very entertaining and the fun part is that it is Free unlike other games in the same line such as WoW the game is totally free, I give the game 10/10 as it satisfies all the elements of a good MMORPG.

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The sign-in is very easy and you will be glad to know that it is a Free to play game.  You don’t have anything to lose other then your time.  This game is not for those who like 3D action since it is a more strategic game. The game has quite pretty and rich graphics, the developers made sure the game looks good.  The user interface is quite as beautiful as the graphics of the game them self.  They don’t take much time to load but it can’t be said the same for user who use modem for Internet connectivity. The graphics can be downloaded in a package file to even better minimize the loading times that take longer for some people. In saying this, the user interface and controls and navigation are fairly easy to understand and use.

The game is set on the Caribbean seas in the 18th century, you will begin as a rookie pirate whose trying to make his way to wealth and glory. As you play the game you will have to collect resources, which you can do by plundering trade ships, following to that at your hiding bay you can build different type of building for your uses like gunsmiths, ship builders, repairers etc. As pirate and captain of your ship you will need a crew that follows you which you can have by hiring crew when docked at a bay.

As you expand and grow more wealthy and strong in the game you will get to have fleets which you can send to pillage and plunder or you can send them to go for treasure hunts or plunder more ships. The game also gives you skills which you can increase as you progress through the game, you can also build new ships and weapons for your travels.  In addition to free style pirating you also get to do missions and quest in the games, normally the missions are to bring certain type of resources or to defeat a certain pirate fleet.

The game is mostly focused on PvP (Player Versus Player) battles, you will get to pillage and plunder other players for resources and to get a scary respect on your name. The game features in-game chat messenger which can be make the game a little less boring then others, since it helps players who can’t find the right track by talking and socializing with more advanced players.
Finishing this review, the game could be given 3 out of 5 stars, the graphics are quite good for a browser game and the interactions and gameplay is quite fun, especially for pirate fans.  Again the game is totally Free to play and it has a nice look to it which is worth a try but loses it glitter once you play the game for week or two.