Game Review

Beginning with Runescape… 
Runescape, is a great mmorpg, with virtually limitless things to do, and Jagex is continuously working to provide new activities, and and skills for their players. You begin on tutorial island, which takes you through different “stations” and teaches you how to play the game, from fishing to magic. After completing tutorial island, you are teleported to a town called Lumbridge, Runescape’s beginner’s town. Lumbridge has many features that tailor to a new player’s needs. A general store, where you can buy your basic equipment, an altar to restore your prayer, (which is one of the various skills available in runescape) and guides, that also help you fine tune the skills you learned on tutorial island. One of the disappointments that I found in runescape, was the graphics. Runescape’s graphics are extremely lacking. The people move in a very laxly designed running/walking motion, during which your characters legs literally move through one another.Runescape also has problems with glitching, and people using auto programs to increase their levels without having to do a lot of work, which drove Jagex to instigate a highly unpopular update, called bounty hunter. which eliminates the old wilderness, where players could fight eachother, and puts players in an arena in which they can be trapped, and multiple players can “gang up” on other player using only an extremely low regulation of what levels can attack what levels.  Although Jagex recently reinstated the old wilderness, the problem is they did not reinstate the old drop method. Now the items dropped for killing another player you will receive an item that you may sell directly for cash to a NPC instead of getting the players items.

Runescape’s poor graphics, and new updates, cause me to vote it a 8.5 out of 10.

World of Warcraft 

World of Warcraft, 

I found WOW to be a step up from runescape in quite a lot of things, and a step down in others. Unlike runescape, when I first logged into WOW, I was astounded at the detail, and quality put into my character, and my surroundings, you could clearly make out the slight hills in the sand, and the scratches, and slight indents in the rocks on the ground and around you. Your players clothing moved as if you were actually wearing it, instead of it…”spawning” from the inside of your chest (reference to runescape). There are even just as many things to do as in runescape, if not as easy to find. The fighting has amazing clarity worthy of a Xbox or PS2.

And now, the horrible, horrible flaw that turned me away from the game… after killing a couple of monsters with your friends, gaining some levels, getting some armor, and your ready to go do some P2P fighting (player to player), you find somebody around your level, you attack them… and yes! You beat them. Where’s the drop? For killing another player… you receive no drop.

World of Warcraft’s great graphics, and awsome fight scenes, caused me to slightly overlook its P2P flaws, and vote it a 7.5 out of 10.