Anarchy Online

ANARCHY ONLINE, is a game released by Funcom, June 2001. It was the best MMORPG back in 2003 and up through the years it's been 3 expansions packs all offering something new and exciting game play. The game features the continuous battle for dominance between the corporate Omni-Tek and the independent freedom fighters the Clan(s). The battle takes place on Rubi-Ka. On the sideline stands the pussy faction Neutral! Up through the game you can choose what faction you will join, but you cannot go back to neutral while chosen a side in the conflict. 

When the game starts you find yourself on the NoobIsland. This is the game area for all the noobs. First after you've gotten to the mainland you can start exploring and having some fun! Waste areas, cities, deserts, caves and canyons are all to the players disposal, featuring a huge variation of mobs and bosses. If you choose a specific profession you can start in ShadowLands, which is the levelling area for AO. I would recommend going to SL as fast as possible; it's the best place to ding!

Later it would be smart thinking of getting some alien xp. This is xp you get from aliens. Alien raids and AL missions are awesome. The loot are superb and if you're able to build some alien armour, the money will increase fast. Some armor, weapon, and spells needs to be build using instructions disks. Next up, Battlestations, or BS as it's called. It a place where people with about the same level come together and kill each other!

I guess next up are professions. In the start you chose a profession and you keep this for the rest of the game. You can make 8 players on each account, on 3 servers. It's different breeds, some weak, nano and magic oriented, some mixed, agility based or perhaps strenght and stamina based. These breeds get different weapons, magic and armour. The different professions also get different items so it's important not to choose wrong breed for wrong professions.

Missions. Here you got a funny thing. Missions and quests in AO give you nothing or everything, their super hard, or 2 minute missions. All depends on the difficult you chose. Guess it's not more to say about that subject. Game play it a little less realistic, but you have to play to understand. PVP is the most fun thing to do in this game. It's awesome, but again you have to play to belive. Should probably say something about bosses; low level bosses are easy to solo at same level, high bosses are opposite.

The screen setup is better that WoW, with more realistic buttons to get up the different panels. Inventory and other panels are slot based and not weight based.

Today, Funcom has gambled on Age Of Conan. Had a little fail, but the game is ok. At least they still have AO to look back on, but the graphic has become too bad to some, making them leave the game and never look back. I just can't forget about AO, all of the nights sitting up and playing with my friends. All the in game parties and raids, late nights sitting up playing.

"Anarchy Online is a game that will always have a special place in my MMORPG heart."

Would give it a 10/10 because I was hooked for 3 years, but I'm a game critic! AO is a good game, with good game play, little bad graphic; I give to a 8/10. Worth checking out!

And it's free to play, if you don't want expansions!

MMORPGcritc, 29 Nov, 2008.

Hope you enjoyed reading my presentation of Anarchy Online.

If they ever revamped the graphics, like they've been advertising on their website for the past 18 months, I might actually consider re-subbing.

really? They going to redone graphic? If so.. I might start again.

Originally posted by MMORPGcritc

really? They going to redone graphic? If so.. I might start again.

They should fix the clunky interface too.

Just rip off WoW:s, afterall that game has the best interface of them all.

Originally posted by Jefferson81

Originally posted by MMORPGcritc

really? They going to redone graphic? If so.. I might start again.

 

They should fix the clunky interface too.

Just rip off WoW:s, afterall that game has the best interface of them all.

 

/slap 

Originally posted by Wharmaster

Originally posted by Jefferson81

Originally posted by MMORPGcritc

really? They going to redone graphic? If so.. I might start again.

 

They should fix the clunky interface too.

Just rip off WoW:s, afterall that game has the best interface of them all.

 

/slap 

 

Blizzard invented fire.  And the wheel.  And the printing press.  It's true.

Yeah, I tried playing again this past summer since having left back during what some would call AO's heyday in 2003. It was depressing to see tumbleweeds blowing through what used to be heavily trafficked areas. My org, while still technically in existence, never had anyone on, where 40+ players being on at  any given time used to be a common thing (nowadays on RK1, it seems as if the server total isn't much more than that).

It's sad, but that's the way things go. All good things must come to an end and all that. While AO might continue to limp along for who knows how long, it will never again be what it was.

Originally posted by Jefferson81

Originally posted by MMORPGcritc

really? They going to redone graphic? If so.. I might start again.

 

They should fix the clunky interface too.

Just rip off WoW:s, afterall that game has the best interface of them all.

 

How could they rip off something that didn't even exist when the supposed ripping off took place?

and to get back on topic I do believe that AO is a shadow of it's former self as the tile suggest and I can't see it ever deserving 8/10 even with a graphics revamp...

But then again maybe they've improved the gameplay so much it's no longer the campfest I remember...

For me AO is a great game, When the Revamp happends ill be right there with my soldier.