Great game for what it is, being a not so Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying game

“…this is the ultimate group game, and in a group the plot elements, wonderfully varied missions, and teamplay really pay off.” -EuroGamer

I’ve played most MMO’s and they all come down to one thing. Spending as much time grinding levels, farming gold and eq as a person spends at a low-end job. So basically as your career & family life advances people have very little time for the games, and you’re play suffers as everyone puts 40hrs a week in their character and you put 6-10. DDO’s solves this. It’s a no grind game, that is more akin to a Never Nights on steroids than any of the other MMO’s out there. If you like NWN, the Baldur’s Gate series this is a game for you.
Log on. Find a group (10 minutes is normally enough time), hit up a quest and an hour later tops, you have you’re exp, you’re rewards and you log off to resume usual life. (2hrs for long quests). This game is really customized to make it so the 6-8 hour player can always stay competitive in the game indefinitely.

The graphics are gorgeous. The combat is alot of fun with it’s Mortal Kombat meets NWN system. The ingame voice chat is perhaps the greatest invention ever. Grouping is a MUST, solo’ing isn’t impossible but incredibly difficult. The economy I think was done right in being static, as every dynamic economy in every MMO is so screwed up by farming that it makes it invalid.

If you’re a power gamer (or probably under 20 or so) you’re probably not going to like this game, as you won’t have any rewards/benefits from putting 40-60 hrs a week in, outside of leveling faster. If you’re alittle more balanced a person and 6-10 hours is all you have, this is the MMO that will keep you entertained for a good deal of time to come.

All in all, it’s really not a game for everyone, the Hardcore DnD freaks will flip, and it may catch a few newbies to the world of DnD, but those leet kiddies that won’t play anything but level 60 Night Elf Female Rogues, this probably isn’t the MMO experiance you want.

About this game

REAL COMBAT. REAL DANGER. REAL D&D. For over 30 years Dungeons & Dragons has been the legendary benchmark for all roleplaying games. Now you can experience one of the most unique and dangerous online games ever created - based on the classic roleplaying game that started it all.