Requiem Was Surprisinly Good (links to dungeon screenshots)

Eunuchmaker

 

I'm not the type to play or even like F2P mmo's, although I've sampled many (Cabal, Last Chaos, Archlord, Shaiya, Rappels, Perfect World, etc). I must say, this is surprisingly better than I expected--assuming you compare it to other F2P mmo's.

Graphics are comparable to Archlord, but a bit more heavy on the gore. If you prefer W, A, S, D - style of movement, Requiem's implementation is better than Archlord's.

The game has seperate PVE and PVP servers, whereas some games just throw eveyone onto the same server and PVE ppl have to contend with PVP ppl (I'm a PVE guy myself). I believe it has it's own version of WOW-type battlegrounds, but I've not tried it.

The game is not heavily instanced, except for dungeons like these:

http://www.playrequiem.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=7402&posts=11&start=1

In this respect, it is not so instance-heavy like Guild Wars, AOC or EQ2.

The game just launched, so there are some lag issues, issues with players disconnecting, and some quests are bugged--but then again, I've encountered these launch issues in AOC and WOW too.

The game is F2P, although users that pay the monthly fee (anywhere from $7 - $15) enjoy certain benefits like faster XP while leveling, higher drop rates on loot and less XP loss on death (as you lose XP when you die).

Free players cannot use regional chat, only local (imagine playing WOW but only paying customers could participate in or read the barrens chat). This makes the game seem dead for free users as there is little on- screen chatter unless you get into a town or populated area.

The upside is that there is less gold-seller spam (unless the gold sellers feel like paying a monthly fee to advertise in regional chat). There is talk of a LFG tool to help player form quests since regional chat for free players isn't an option.

If you're a fan of the tried-and-true elves/ high fantasy genre, you probably won't like this game.

My 2-Cents.

dzincha

There's even an item mall icon in the game... how pathetic. Does free to play, bots, ingame curency sellers, hacks ring you a bell ??

SgtFrog

i think its odd that they have both a montly sub and a cash shop item