Harvest: Massive Encounter – survival strategy game

Harvest: Massive Encounter is an awesome (and I mean AWESOME) real time td and strategy game by Oxeye Game Studio. The game is not your usual tower defense type, but a unique, amazing and epic experience!

Story
Gold rush! Yeah, gold rush in space! Everyone wants to be rich. You also head the opportunity but there are the nasty aliens who stay between you and your success!

YS: The Oath in Felghana

These days I had the chance to play one awesome Japanese game – YS.
The YS series are several RPG games but here I’ll talk only for YS: The Oath in Felghana. I have no background information about the series, so if you are an old YS fan, don’t shoot at me, those are my first impressions only.
The series are centered at the adventures of Adol, our main hero. As every hero, he is cool, his favorite breakfast is fried monsters and of course he has to save the world and the young lady. Yep, there is a beautiful, blondie young lady to be saved.

World of Tanks – new PVP oriented MMO game

World of Tanks is new MMO action game announced just recently by WARGAMING.NET. The game would be focused mainly on PVP battles with wide range of modes like quick random battles, mini-missions, clan wars and more.
World of Tanks is promised to be free to play so I presume many people will try it. The game will feature variety of tank models from different historical events and countries.
Tiger tank, Soviet T-34, American 155mm M40 Gun Motor Carriage are some of the models mentioned on the press release.

Site: http://www.worldoftanks.com/

ShadowTale – cool browser MMORPG

Site: http://www.shadowtale.com/

Shadowtale is a flash-based, 2D MMORPG game that can be played entirely in a web browser. The game has great features more similar to usual MMORPG games. Playing ShadowTale is like adventuring in a tale world.

I didn’t expected much but it turns out to be really fascinating game. Its universe is persistent, players go around from one scene to another, meet other players, fight monsters and do quests.

The battles are actually real time and quite fast. You can’t take a breath between attacking enemies. The enemies tend to surround you, fighting large groups isn’t easy. You don’t know what enemies would emerge behind the next turn. At the beginning series of goblins, wolves and boars will attack you. You must go on a mission to save a girl and then you must infiltrate a castle. Castle guards will attack you and they are quite strong. My character had a hard time fighting them. You can use spells together with regular attack to fight.

The game interface is convenient and similar to traditional non-browser MMORPG games. You can equip your character, eat food, drink special potions, upgrade your weapons and armors and so on. You even can have a pet although I don’t have one yet.

Players can explore many different locations like the Catacombs, Gravelands, and even some castles. The game graphics looks like images from an old, tale book.

Luna Online – mmorpg review

Site: http://luna.gpotato.com/
Status: Free-to-play

Luna Online is a colorful, anime-styled MMORPG published by gPotato. The game has cute, fun graphics and relaxing atmosphere. If you like to spend some time in a tale world, this MMORPG is for you.
Do you have problems to fight cute, little monsters? (Am I cute?)

Gameplay
You can choose you character race, appearance and class. There are three available classes at the beginning, and 52 classes in total so players can customize their character development in details.
When you fight monsters you gain experience and level up, at each level you get stat points and skill points. To learn skills you need skill points, gold and to reach a certain level.
The monsters drop both whole items and parts for creating items. You can construct and reinforce different things.

Classes
You have three classes to select at the beginning – Fighter, Rogue, and Mage. At level 20 each of them can advance to a new class. Not all classes are accessible from all races. Leveling up is not very fast, for two hours intense playing and doing quests I was only at level 8. Today I’ll try to reach level 20 and obtain a profession – Elven Mage.

Community
You can actually find many people playing the game. I was surprised to see so many characters selling and buying things at the shop area in Alker Harbor.

I’ll spend some more time in game before evaluating my impression. I am not exactly the type to like chibi characters but the game took my attention and I enjoy my playing time a lot.

FreeStyle Street Basketball - sports MMO

Site: http://freestyle.gamekiss.com

Are you tired of the standard MMORPG games? Do you like to try something new? Do you like sports? Do you like street basketball?



FreeStyle Street Basketball is a sport MMO or can I say MMORPG. The game is based on the hip-hoop style of street basketball.

Gameplay
The gameplay is fast and addictive. The matches are quite fun.
Players obtain experience, level up, get stronger and faster. You gain in-game money after each match and with them you can buy clothes or other fun items.

Update
Today GameKiss announced a major update, going to be launched on December, 15. The update will add new items, new skills, replay mode, and public mode.

Gameplay Video

Magic World Online

Site: http://mwo.enjoymmo.com/

Magic World Online is yet another free-to-play MMORPG. It has plain, 2D graphics with not much character customization – the only choice is the character class, gender and fraction. This is maybe the only drawback of the game. MWO brings memories of Diablo 2 with its graphics and gamestyle. The game interface is relatively convenient, if you need to go on some map coordinates, you can click on the map and your character will go there. The skills, stats and so on windows are intuitive, even newbie players wont face difficulties.

Characters
At the beginning you can make a choice between four starting classes – Warrior, Archer, Summoner, and Mage. Later all of the classes have multiple possibilities for specialization. The first class change is at level 15. My first character was summoner and I was pleased to see actually useful and powerful summons, even the first elf.

Class Tree

• Warrior
  
  
  • Berserker (15)
    
    • Dire Warrior (30)
      
      
      • Devil Rider Warrior (50) - Unregenerate Demon (65)
      • Storm Warrior (50) - Thunder Storm Demon (65)
      
      
    
    
  • Shadow Knight (15)
    
    • Temple Warrior (30)
      
      
      • Great Hero (50) - Heroic Mars (65)
      • Knights Templar (50) - Saint Cavalier (65)
      
      
    
    
  
  
• Archer
  
  
  • Bounty Hunter (15)
    
    • Jungle Ranger (30)
      
      
      • Sniper King (50) - Sunsmashing Ares (65)
      • Dragon Slayer (50) - Sunscreening Master (65)
      
      
    
    
  • Stalker (15)
    
    • Assassin (30)
      
      
      • Night Lord (50) - Capricorn Sage (65)
      • Dark Fiend (50) - Scorpio Progenitor (65)
      
      
    
    
  
  
• Summoner
  
  
  • Necromancer(15)
    
    • Nature Guard (30)
      
      
      • Undead Manipulator (50) - Ghostdom Sage (65)
      • Necromancer Master (50) - Dragoncalling Master (65)
      
      
    
    
  • Illusionist (15)
    
    • Soul Manipulator (30)
      
      
      • Devil Beastmaster (50) - Illusion Angel (65)
      • Golden Beastmaster (50) - Falling Angel (65)
      
      
    
    
  
  
• Mage
  
  • Fire Mage (15)
    
    • Flame Magic Mentor (30)
      
      
      • Firedragon Pontifex (50) - Dragonbaking Master (65)
      • Flame Oracle (50) - Blaze Pluto (65)
      
      
    
    
  • Ice Mage (15)
    
    • Ice Magic Mentor (30)
      
      
      • Ice Dragon Oracle (50) - Freezing Uranus (65)
      • Ice World Pontifex (50) - Frosty Neptune (65)
      
      
    
    
  
  

Bot
The MWO client comes with a built in bot, which puts aside some of the game grinding. Even while I write this post, the bot is working hard for its food. It is highly customizable and I actually like it. Of course if you are not careful enough, the bot can get your character killed easily.

Quests / Experience / Drop
The game has many different quests. Players start with an intro quest and meet their class master in it. The experience and item drop are enough to keep the game entertaining. You can level up relatively fast and if you get bored you can leave the bot to do its job.

Monsters
Players meet a variety of monster types in game. There are some monsters with special aura, marked as elite – they are stronger than normal mobs but they drop more and better items.

Mass gaming, castle sieges
I haven’t met many players at the low level towns and fields. And I haven’t been on a siege as you can guess. I look forward for one though.

WonderKing Online – side-scrolling MMORPG

Site: http://wonderking.ndoorsgames.com/
WonderKing Online is a free-to-play, side-scrolling, 2D MMORPG. The game features cute anime graphics and fun, entertaining gameplay. Currently the game is in its closed beta.

Gameplay
The gameplay of WonderKing Online is very similar to most of the other side-scrolling MMORPGs. Players fight with monsters, do quests, explore dungeons and collect loot. You can form a party or a guild with your friends. The game is easy, nice, colorful, relaxing and in the same time addicting.
The controls are relatively easy to handle. The only thing I had a hardship was looting. The key wasn’t listed anywhere or I couldn’t find it. So if you have a similar problem – press down arrow to loot.
The game world is full of cute and sweet monsters. The background is a set of fantasy sceneries and has some magic in it.

Classes
WonderKing Online has four starting classes – Swordsman, Thief, Mage and Scout. Swordsmans as usual are the tank characters with strong defense. They use a melee attack and a sword as the name says.
Mages can specialize as damage dealing Wizards or support type Priests.
Thieves can deal a great amount of damage in a short period. They can specialize in melee or range combat with dagger or shurukens respectively.
Scouts are the ranger type characters with bows or guns.

Quests
WonderKing Online offers many different and entertaining quests. At the start players can do basic quests introducing game functionality and interface.

Overall Impression:
The game is very similar to MappleStory as player experience by my opinion. WonderKing Online is a beautiful and relaxing game, appropriate for almost all gamers.

Screenshots:

 

Knight Online

Site: http://knightonlineworld.gamersfirst.com/index.php

Knight Online is a popular MMORPG developed by MGame Corporation. The game is free to play and download, but with some premium services. The site here is the US official, there are also two other servers – the Korean and the Japanese.
Knight Online is set in a fantasy world of magic, knights and battles. Right at the beginning you are thrown in the conflict between two enemy nations and you must choose a side!

The game has four starting classes – Warrior, Rogue, Mage and Priest. The first job change is at level 10.

Gameplay
At the beginning every new player starts with a mission to defeat one big worm and save his future virtual friend – Seed (or Max). Your virtual friend will help you with information and tips about the game world.
Leveling up is similar to most other games – players obtain experience through killing mobs and doing quests, obtain stats points per each level and develop their character with great deal of individuality.
If you want to level up faster in Knight Online it is better to start some quests and fight mobs while doing the quests. Also you can improve your weapons and armor through crafting.
The in-game currency is called Noahs. Players can obtain Noahs through killing monsters, doing quests, trading and so on.

PvP
The game offers often wars, castle sieges and other events. Players can duel other players from their nation and fight for National Points and Ladder Points players from the enemy nation.

Quests
The game has many quests – very similar to many other MMORPGs – kill n mobs or collect m items.

Downloading the game.
I personally don’t like games without own client hosting. They redirect you to some big file sharing sites with a lot of ads and spam/scam content. On the official site you see that your download must be something like 900mb and on the file hosting servers you see 400mb exe. And all of them store an exe with different size. All file hosting servers listed in the official game site. So which is the correct one? I don’t know.
This is not very pleasant approach for a serious company and game. I am not sure I can trust such game. Maybe I haven’t seen the exe on the official site? I don’t like this part ruining otherwise marvelous impression.

Overall impression
Knight Online is a very good game with cool PVP system and fascinating gameplay. Very fast it became one of my favorite games.

This post in my blog - Game news, reviews, cheats, fun - http://godsector.blogspot.com/2009/10/knight-online.html

Star Trek Online (STO)

Are you a Star Trek geek? Are you a MMORPG fan? Both?

Star Trek Online Closed Beta is available for new registrations. You can try and be accepted on the official site - http://www.startrekonline.com/.

In STO you can experience 25 century universe. You can face the vast space as a Federation Captain or a Klingon Warlord. According to the official site the player will have the opportunity to customize his own space ship to better represent his personality. Star Trek Online will feature space and ground combat.

Trailer:


Screenshots:

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