It has long been known that the MMORPG with a strong PvP-element (player versus player) to attract more subscribers than their "peaceful" competition. People always want to compete with each other, to show his superiority. Correct implementation of this component can bring the creators of the game's stunning success - remember the recent Guild Wars. Developers RYL: Path of the Emperor decided to go even further.
In the supplements to the standard promises to dazzle in high numbers in press releases of any such project, PlanetWide Games lures gamers absolutely real million dollars. To become the owner of this truly gigantic sums of money, you need to get as many points (awarded for killing other players) on the expiry of the competition. The event began on 1 July this year and will end only in April next. Well, great incentives, but directly from the game itself fared much worse.
 | |  | Race is not chosen for each character separately, and once for all five avatars on the server - as in Dark Age of Camelot. | | Well-deserved rest after a hectic battle with the local fauna. When a character is, health and mana restored much faster. |
WHAT? WHERE? WHY? Retell the story of any MMORPG - a thankless task, because most such projects, it is necessary ballast "for show". However, the universe is different RYL really interesting history - are urged to examine the relevant section of the manual. I'll briefly.
Continuing the war began in the days when people from an independent kingdom Kartefant (breakaway at the time of the Empire) encroached on the land fabulous race Ak'Kan (State Merkhadians). The bloody feud between the two civilizations resulted in even the fact that a few years after the conflict began to form an alliance of people and akkanov - God's Pirates, proclaiming stupidity and senselessness of war. However, the warring parties and to hear the reconciliation did not want - the organization of latter-day "pacifist" was perceived by them with hostility ...
 | ABOUT U.S. |
PlanetWide Games - subdivision of a huge American corporation Bluetorch Online Inc. They are new entrants to the market of computer games, because the company was founded only in October 2004. In PlanetWide assets including one just Risk Your Life, but soon plans to release add-on to RYL, and in 2006 we are promised an ambitious online racing simulator Bluetorch MOX.
 | |  | Enemy at the Gates! | | Where to go, where to go ... |
Hold on, brother! Strictly speaking, this is the end preamble and start the game - the choice of race and character generation. At the moment there are three RYL Server (gameplay differences between them), but only on the Tournament is statistics for the competition. The process of creating an avatar is not impressive variety (especially the few external parameters), and a set of characteristics at once reminiscent of Diablo I / II - everything is extremely simple, but at the same time understandable and familiar. With the class we will define in general only at level 10 - until then have another long and hard rock.
The first steps in RYL - the most complex. And it's not even in the absence of a friendly tutorial mode, but in a very unpleasant community. In contrast to the friendly user EverQuest II, then you no advice does not help, but quite the contrary - will try to chop at the initial purchase of ammunition, or cause to a duel. Here we have to keep my ears open and scrutinize every popup window!
The experience of almost all the time necessary to recruit on monsters or other users - is tedious and time consuming. The developers have promised "hundreds of quests, but really to find the most elementary" post "the job is not so easy.
| FACTS |
- 3 servers, but the global statistics are only one
- 5 characters of one race can be created on each server
- 7.500.000 + registered Asian users
- $ 13 - monthly fee for RYL
- 1000000 - so can theoretically win the best player
- 0% - efficiency of service technical support company PlanetWide
| |  | Funny glitch: our hero is swimming, holding his head all the time under water. Index of air is not as a class. | | In the town square Pirate's Bluff inexperienced newcomer waits many unscrupulous traders, speculators. |
HOW TO DIABLO The combat system - Diablo pure water adjusted to the third dimension. Left-click attack, right - use your skill. There is also an opportunity to jump and even evade attacks. It turned out quite comfortably.
Great and Mighty recall and familiarity with the system of skills (raising a spell or skill by reading the steeper the roll), as well as upgrading of things - only here the "gems" are replaced by minerals. Gameplay similarities with the creation of Blizzard is so strong that sometimes involuntarily to wonder: which is what this could be a Diablo II, moved it to the developers completely online.
Unfortunately, along with the positive elements of the Diablo-shaped games (easy, easy, intuitive controls), RYL has a complete "bunch" the inherent disadvantages of the Baptist: the primitive level design, the lack of physics as a class, silly dialogue, and the constant flow only through the destruction of all that moves ... and frequent lags that in the quantities I have not seen since the days of sitting in Battle.net on the modem (given that I now have 256k-ADSL).
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What little game boasts an equally extensive advertising campaign, which was in Risk Your Life. PlanetWide completely spared no money on the promotion of their offspring, yielding simply stunning results. Being what really must be confessed, very mediocre game, RYL (if you believe the official statistics) has attracted more than 8.5 million people have registered a paid account. Truly amazing results - to compare, in Final Fantasy Online is less than 2 million people ... No wonder PlanetWide always suited major music festivals with the participation of world stars in support of his brainchild: Linkin Park, Carmen Electra, Chris Judd and others. E3 booth - even a fairy tale. True, the million-dollar winner of the competition will provide not PlanetWide, and one of the largest U.S. network of online stores - EbGames.
 | |  | Crooked pirate for not less than crooked ship. | | Inventory under the tracing paper copied from the Diablo II: Lord of Destruction. |
Simplicity - the worse? Not at all, especially when it comes to the interface. This parameter is advantageously differs from its competitors. The screen is not cluttered with unnecessary RYL windows with lots of buttons - all intuitive and easy to understand. There is a choice of control mode - toggles between "ekshnovym" and "strategic" options at the touch of a button. In the first case includes the standard for TPS mode "view from the back, the movement is carried out with the keyboard, and everything else - the mouse (as in EverQuest II, it is best to use this review in the battle). In the second case, the camera freely adjustable, but even have to go with the mouse.
 | |  | Loss of color and blurring of boundaries of objects - a sure sign that the health of the hero is in a deplorable state. While it is too late reel fishing rod and flee to safety. | | Battle for the contents of the chest with treasures is in full swing. Because anyone to kill anyone here is not necessary, outcome of the case depends entirely on the reaction rate of a person. |
Wrapper Externally, the game looks, frankly, weak. Grim, ascetic made landscapes and awkward character models most resemble a veteran of the genre Dark Age of Camelot. After the beauty and EQII Guild Wars did not immediately get used to such a joyless spectacle.
But the music is very pleasant. Rustic melodies (if one remembers listening to MIDI-RPG masterpieces of the early 90's), but at the same time, it is unobtrusive, and they are wonderful brightens up a boring picture of a more than modest graphic decoration. Positive, in one word.
 | |  | One character has been created. There are still four vacant seats. | | By its very colorful spell effects in RYL similar to a caste of FFXI. |
 | |  | This creek is full of low-level monsters. An ideal place for leveling a new character. | | Michael - leader of the Alliance of God's Pirates, and in general a very important person. |
I dare? A million dollars - a wonderful incentive, but it is unlikely you'll play in RYL month and if do not like Diablo. This project is recommended only to fans of this poluarkadnoy RPG. Otherwise, better to spend hard-earned money to the same World of Warcraft, EQII, or Guild Wars. Even in terms of PvP RYL not ask you absolutely nothing new ...
| Payment for death |
While in the majority of modern MMORPG for the death penalty is calculated on the resulting experience (a certain percentage of it goes to debt repayment) in RYL used an old and extremely unfair system: a character is removed already recruited after obtaining the level of the expo.But here it should be noted that only charged intermediate experience - lowering, fortunately, can not be obtained. And thanks for that.
 | |  | Open landscapes look very nice ... | | ... But the submarine can scare anyone. |
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