RuneScape
RuneScape is MMORPG graphically 3D rendered Browser Based Game. The game came in existence quite a long time ago and has about 8.5 million ‘Active’ accounts which are a lot for a Browser Based Game as it has been acknowledged of that by Guinness World Records. The game is popular mainly because it is a Free To Play MMORPG which would be certainly discussed of following the rest of the review.
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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.
