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GAMES: NCsoft brings a whole new experience to the fantasy role playing game genre with Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle. This all-new game, developed and published by NCsoft, is a prequel to their blockbuster hit, Lineage. Set 150 years before Lineage, as the kingdom of Aden becomes a unified state, Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle is designed to show the struggles that take place during a time where several provinces come under one rule. Old loyalties must change, new structure must be established and national sovereignty and pride must be formed. However, a group of lands coming under single rule doesn't equate to immediate peace... In this world, many players fight for control over any and every piece of the new kingdom. [NCsoft]
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PC Gamer
My biggest complaint is the excruciating grind, where you hunt creatures for experience points and money. [July 2004, p.66]
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Frictionless Insight
Briefly, as good-looking as it is and as interesting and novel as its character skill/profession system is, Lineage II feels much like yesterday’s MMOG. To the extent you’ve enjoyed such games all along, this may not be an issue. But many of what seem like minor advancements in the genre are missing here, such as a centralized market system for selling goods.
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GMR Magazine
This MMORPG is so difficult, long, and slow that playing it feels more like work than a game. [Sept 2004, p.85]
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Thunderbolt
So that's L2 "PvP" for you -- seemingly dangerous at first, but then a disappointment and apparent breeding ground for grief and exploitation. Under any other name, it would just be consensual duels. And other companies were doing those competently years ago. The catch is that this is supposed to be the main draw of this modern MMOG. Without it, there's nothing but a steady stream of intolerably slow-moving experience bars and arrogant, immoral players.
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Computer Games Magazine
The worst abuse of all are the 'bot macros, that allow high-level character "bots" to farm areas for loot and experience, automatically attacking anyone who trespasses into "their" zone. [Aug 2004, p.68]
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Cheat Code Central
A derivative, persistent online RPG that is trying to compete with older and much better games in the genre. Lineage 2 is too little, too late.
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Dan gave it a2: Andrew H. gave it a10: Manu R. gave it a10: [Anonymous] gave it a0: Adam gave it an8: [Anonymous] gave it a10: Erik gave it a7: |
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