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Fury

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4.7 User Score:

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Based on 15 critic reviews
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Game Info

Publisher: Gamecock Media Group

Developer: Auran

Genre(s): Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, Action

Players: Thousands

ESRB Rating: T (Teen)

Release Date: October 16, 2007

Summary

Taking the brightest elements emblazoned in the hearts of MMO fans and combining them with traditional RPG gameplay, Fury has culminated in the ultimate competitive online RPG. Advanced combat, in-depth character advancement and teamwork mixed with fast paced and diverse game types make up the core of Fury's gameplay. The dynamic cycle lets you fight, earn rewards and customize your avatar with a richness and depth never before seen or attempted. The evolution of Fury's combat system is a union of hardcore RPG factors with elemental changes, providing action packed gaming at a feverish pace. Bring these outstanding battle scenarios together with unparalleled matchmaking ensures players will always experience a fun and well matched fight. Plus, character development has been brought to all new levels letting your unique personality and style shine through at every level. Unleash the fury. [Gamecock]

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What The Critics Said

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Games Radar (in-house)

If you've been complaining about the lack of PvP in your MMO, this is a non-stop, complex and compelling game that offers a deep, intricate and layered PvP play. If not, Fury isn't likely to convert you from Player versus Environment to PvP in one sitting - but it's still a hell of a good time.

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PALGN

Fury is a lot of fun, but is let down by its lack of diversity. The core gameplay is compelling, but given its lack of options, it isn't likely to hold your attention for very long.

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Gaming Target

The title has a lot of potential, with a staff behind it that believe in the game, but currently paying the premium subscription fee would not be recommended.

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IGN

Fury never once grabbed us like other MMOs or arena shooters. We weren't compelled to keep queuing up for deathmatches, or sprint back to vendors to upgrade our equipment or skills. So while it's a competent game, we simply couldn't get into it.

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Cheat Code Central

The Fury gives me a conflicting sense of agoraphobia and claustrophobia. It's likely that it may be more refined in the future, but right now it feels as though it's still a work in progress.

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PC Gamer

When you realize, after a while, that all there is to Fury is to either fight or not fight, you may just decide to take your ball and go home. [Jan 2008, p.90]

PC Zone UK

Lacks any sane rationale behind its price and hides within it a game that could have been so much more, but just isn't. [Jan 2008, p.78]

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NZGamer

The single worst feature of Fury has to be its utter unforgiving nature when it comes to creating your character.

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GameSpy

It's important to note that there are some very solid fundamental designs at work here, and an entertaining game can be found if you have the patience to stomach the painful technical issues and the small user base that currently plagues Fury. In a best-case scenario, Fury's population would quadruple in the next six months, and with a larger community, some of the player-matching issues would clear up.

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Game Informer

Go pick up a cheap copy of any flavor of Guild Wars if you want subscription-free heroic fantasy PvP.

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PC Gamer UK

Too clever for its own good. [Jan 2008, p.80]

GameZone

The game wants to be an all-out action extravaganza, when in reality the end product is full of technical issues and poor gameplay.

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GameSpot

True to its title, this fantasy action game will make you furious.

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1UP

It's a messy button-masher that makes you really wish it had been able to realize its potential. Don't write it off completely, though...let's talk again in about six months.

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Eurogamer

Its mediocre visuals will tax your PC like an Inland Revenue man hopped up on crack; we had to scale the settings right down in order to make it remotely playable, and even then it crashed us back to the desktop with depressing regularity. Perhaps it was trying to tell us something.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 4.7 (out of 10) based on 34 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Jeff QWERTY gave it an8:
I actually enjoyed this game quite a bit. I think I understand why the early reviewers gave this game such horribly bad ratings. Basically when this game first came out it was apparently a god-awful piece of crap. However after many numerous patches and updates the game has vastly improved. This game reminds me of Guild Wars minus the pve elements, and on top of that it has a WoW user interface. Being that this game was developed on the Unreal Tournament 3 engine things like knocking someone off a cliff are possible, and ragdoll physics as well can be very impressive. Basically as said previously Fury is an entirely pvp focused game, which for me is a very good thing. However I realize that players like myself are apparently in the minority and therefore I can understand why many people flat out hate what this game stands for. I tell it like it is though, and I must admit this game still has annoyances and needs polishing. (Auction house interface, abilities interface, etc.) Also, there is a small player base which is probably a detriment for an mmo. Even with all the cons, Fury has some of the best pvp I've seen in an mmo.

Dan G. gave it a0:
This game is so bad they had to can 90% of the staff because they had so few sales. ANd it word of mouth is so aweful that they disabled the user responses in their forums and deleted all the threads so new potential scam victims wouldnt be scared off.

Simon C. gave it a1:
Tried the game, and it's an awful mess, MMO??? ahah the only massive thing in this game is the number of bugs and issues.. The graphic reminds of a year 2000 game (poor ut3 engine!).. Population is so low that is almost hard to play a game and you will spend most of your time in a queue..waiting and waiting.. There are only few hardcore players playing the game... the ones who gave this orrible game a 10.. They are trying to recruit some more players.. i can kind of understand since it should be boring to play against each other all the time. Do yourself a favour and spend the money on something else.

Jeremy S. gave it a0:
This game is horrible All the professional reviews that rate it below 50% (which is the vast majority of them!) are completely accurate. The one or two others who rated it above 50% are from sources of questionable integrity which have a habit of artificially inflating review scores of horrible games due to advertising dollar or other corporate considerations which are not at all related to the quality of the game. For example, one professional review site which gave the Fury game a 65% score, also gave Master of Orion III -which was almost universally considered to be trainwreck (as is Fury!), - a 92% score. That score was artificially inflated by at least a 52% margin, so by applying a necessary realism standard to the Fury score from the same site, instead of the 65% score for that review clearly Fury should be worth merely 13% (65% minus the 52% artificial score inflation margin). Using knowledge like this it isn't hard to see that if all reviews about Fury were done by honest, credible reviewers, then there would be an average score for Fury of no more than 40%. So if you see a tally of average professional reviews scores of Fury scoring anything above 40%, do not believe it because that number is far too high to accurately reflect the quality of the game Fury. Thankfully, the *majority* of professional reviewers out there are honest and have integrity, and have very plainly laid out the facts that Fury is a horrible game for all smart game fans to be warned away before flushing their money down the drain by buying Fury. Fury is a very bad FPS game with melee weapons instead of guns, that pretends to be a MMO. Which it definitely is not. Think of a very badly made end-user created modification of Quake III Arena that barely runs, and only has a few mundane levels in it. And that's the entirety of the product. Then take away all of Quake III Arena's great gameplay and replace it with total crap gameplay instead. Take away the guns, and replace them with melee weapons. The end result you get from doing all that is pretty much the same thing as Fury. The only reason the metacritic user score for this game occassionally fluctuates slightly above 4/10 is because some of the (very few) players of Fury artificially inflate the score with bogus 10/10 ratings and ridiculously praiseful comments in the hopes that some poor saps will be hoodwinked into buying this very bad game. Probably in hopes that the servers don't go offline a few months down the road due lack of any incoming revenue due to hardly anyone ever buying this game. I can't say I blame the hardcore Fury players for trying to prevent that from happening even if it requires getting into the morally gray area of painting a very misrepresentative picture of the game to hoodwink new players into making a bad purchase decision. BUT, if *you* are the poor sap shelling out $50USD+ for this trainwreck, you will NOT be a happy camper if you let them trick you into doing that. Out of desperation (and because there is nothing else whatsoever good to say about Fury), some of the hardcore Fury fans who cast fake votes and write fake reviews claim that although Fury is crap now, it will magically become a good game with some future patches. We all know that is impossible. If a game at it's core, is total garbage, as Fury is, then trying to gloss over it with some shiny coats of paint can never ever fix the core issue that it is garbage in the first place. The late great Chris Farley probably said it best in the classic movie "Tommy Boy": "If you want I can take a crap in a box right now and write GUARANTEED on it, but all that means is that you have got a guaranteed piece of crap". Fury may by worth buying for a select few people who enjoys *receiving* sadomaschochistic pleasures. I have faith in the intelligence of you readers of this review therefore I won't even define that word for you because I know you are smart enough to understand it on your own. If you are *not* one of the select few who enjoys *receiving* sadomaschochistic pleasures, then you will be guaranteed to regret your purchase of Fury. I also know that you all are smart enough to see past the few fake reviews of Fury and recognize them for what they are. Sometimes when someone wants a game to be really good, he can inadvertently close his mind to the reality that all the game is, and all the game will ever be, is a worthless piece of trash. Most people never have, and never will buy Fury. That is why there are very few players, and zero good feedback about the game from anyone, anywhere, other than a few hardcore Fury players. It is possible that once in a while someone will be suckered into buying the game based on one of those few fake reviews or fake votes thats artificially lift the score above 4/10. But no one likes feeling like a sucker by buying a crap, almost-dead, likely-soon-to-be-dead game. *You* don't wanna be the one guy suckered into buying the game and then finding out afterwards that there is hardly anyone else playing it, it doesn't run on your system in a playable state, there is barely any content in the game yet the little content that is there is crap, and the game has no future whatsoever. Do not let this happen to you, you know you are smarter than that. :) When you *don't* waste your money on Fury, the intelligence of humankind wins the day.

Simon W. gave it an8:
Lets be real, those who gave it a 0 are lies. I bet they haven't even been playing the game for over 2 days. You cannot judge a movie by the beginning sense and give it a 0 and leave. Those of us who stick around and give it a 10 are lies too. This game has many bugs and issues, but Fury is trying to fix it during each patch. Slowly but at least they tried. They listen to what gamers want and try to fix the problems. Right now, the population is slowing dying because of those noob critic review who didn't even play. This is a GREAT game in the making. It's a MMO game, it takes time to fix bugs. Did WoW have no bug during the first month? A lot of bugs have been fixed for Fury and the only issue is dying population due to bad critic whom don't know what they are talking about.

Mike B. gave it an8:
I'm actually enjoying the game. The complexity is high, customization of archetypes and roles is astounding. It may need a little polishing and really needs a higher population base, but it's even now a lot of fun.

circuit breaker gave it a3:
Pros: Great concept, devoted, responsive dev team. Cons: The game. Specifically, the graphics, the gameplay, the UI, the lag, the queue times, the myriad technical issues, the ridiculously complex proliferation of skills and gear, et cetera. Tested since Alpha. Tons of potential. None of it utilized. Simply not ready for release -- too many bugs, too little optimization. I'm the target audience for the emerging CORPG genre (also a long time GW player), but the game is just premature. Pointlessly large and complex lobby is not fooling anyone -- not a meaningful persistent world, which is fine. But why 700 artificers and repairmen and skill trainers for the same skills? Too many issues resulting in too low a population to really flourish. New players are pretty much destined to get ganked by the few experienced clans remaining -- not enough people to allow the matchmaking system to really work.

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