Anarchy Online for Windows
- Publisher: Deep Silver
- Genre: Role-Playing
- Platform: Windows
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Who ISN'T excited?!
Pros
Custimizable characters, apartments, vehicles! Sweet guns, awesome classes, many options!
Cons
Waiting for release
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
This is the best looking and sounding game than any other anticipated game ever.
EDIT: KEEP IN MIND THAT I WROTE THIS BEFORE IT WAS RELEASED
Ah, nothing beats kicking back in your apartment after a hard days work. Things are tough down at the guildhall. Your boss is pressuring you to make more profit while the Omni-tek still is over it's estimated goal for the quarter. After you put away your weapon components you gathered from the shop down the street you hop on your hovercar and decide to go on a road trip to Tir. The biggest Rebel metropolis on the planet. Being Neutral in a world of black and white is tough, but it pays. But it's just a game anyway, Anarchy Online to be exact.
Anarchy Online is one of the most anticipicated games since it's shows at E3 since 1996 and it's been delayed several times up until now. The official release date now is June 27th 2001 and most of us have been waiting months or years for it. And since it's unofficial release date in the late 1900's it's had more facelifts and make-overs than Lori Anderson. Now the game has become ever greater than it's original plan was.
The giant world where, which, you live on with many other players online (50,000 at the most) is called Rubi-ka. It's a barren land plagued with deserts and small oasis's. That's what the greedy Omni-tek Organisation thought until they struck "notum". The "notum" they found was discovered to have strong powers, enough to run factories, space shuttles, and the like. Some of the natives that had colonized the planet before them kept the notum a secret to outsiders, which was an easy thing to do since Rubi-ka a was planet on the outer ring or the aestroids but now the Omni-tek had found it and is using it for trading and supplies. Many of the inhabitants turned on them and fought back for the planet. These people on Anarchy Online are referred to as the "Rebels" or "Clans". But many of them are not mindless kamakazes, they have morals and belief the planet should be returned to it's natural state or given back to the rightful owners.
Anarchy Online is a Multi-player Online Roleplaying Game meaning many people will have their own character on the same plane (this one being Rubi-ka) where which they can interact, trade, kill, drink, socialise with, and among many other countless things.
When you create your new character you will be able to make your own name for him/her (being Callname, first, and last name). Then after that you will choose skin colour and race. The races being Solitus (Human), Opifex (Semi-human, slim, and silent), Atrox (Semi-human, big, tough, dumb), and Nano (Semi-human, android-like, very smart).
You can also choose the style and colour of your hair, (from Afros to Mullets) your eye colour, and size of your figure. After you are done making your character you get your own apartment in a building of the city you start in. In your apartment you can manipulate, add to it, and have parties if you want. But don't worry about intruders, you have the only key to it, unless you have friends you can make copies of it for them too.
And if you think this is just going to be like Everquest except fifteen-thousand-six-hundred and ten years in the future you are WRONG. The world is going to be changable, the developers are going to occasionally going to make events happen, like a Notum Mine blowing up or something and the terrain will actually be scattered with pieces and fire coming from it. Then appearances of the Omni-tek Corp leader Phillip Ross will come once and a while. Unlike Everquest it's much more fun because the atmosphere is going to look realistic where clouds that are dark could be rain or a storm and when lighting clouds are coming your way it isn't a good idea to be standing outside because there is a chance of getting hit and injured by the bolt that comes crashing down.
And if you ever get sick of doing the same quests over and over there is no more worries of that in Anarchy Online. Going to certain NPCs or modules will generate quests for you, and it will also generate special rewards you will get also.
Not a fighter? You gain popularity among the Rubi-ka citizens in the city without even touching a fly. Becoming a part of a player owned organisation is a great way to have fun. Besides the ability of having guildhalls in the city, you can make a reputation for yourself from trades, deals, treaties, or many other possible things with player organisations and people. By either your skills as a Mechanical Engineer or Quantum Professor you can make many-o-credit selling, trading, or sharing your products with players.
Whether your Omni-tek or Rebel is up to you but there is also a choice of purgatory known as Neutrality. Though once you choose your status from the start of the game (if you want to remain any of these factions) you must stay within the boundaries which make your them. Like, if I wanted to become an Omni-tek, I can't just go off and kill a bunch of Omni-tek guards or something. I could fall into Rebel status and be attacked by Player or NPC Omni-teks.
Whatever class/profession you choose to be is totally up to you from the start. You will be asked to put some initial ability points into certain types of skills (for example: Mechanical Engineering or Skill with Pistol) and choosing these will determine your class. If you wanted to be a Soldier you would prime your abilities in firearms probably, or if you wanted to be a semi-soldier semi-engineer, you can do combinations of skills.
While being a hybrid instead of an "au point" class might have a couple advantages, it doesn't have as many compared to pure classes. The classes are broken down into these:
Fixer -- outlaws. usually up to no good stealing
Agent -- espionage master
Engineer -- makes, Controls, and repairs electronic equipment such as robot pets and vehicles
Nano-tech -- people call them evokers of 'magic'
Meta-Physician -- spiritual nano-techs
Trader -- merchants, non-fighters
Doctor -- uses both nano and normal healing skills
Bureaucrat -- uses theoretical and manipulative skills to get his way
Adventurer -- jack-of-all-trades
Soldier -- obvious
Martial Artist -- obvious
If you aren't interested in the game by now, well, you should be. Hope to see you in game.
-"Burnsy" on Rubi-ka 1 Dimension
Ah, nothing beats kicking back in your apartment after a hard days work. Things are tough down at the guildhall. Your boss is pressuring you to make more profit while the Omni-tek still is over it's estimated goal for the quarter. After you put away your weapon components you gathered from the shop down the street you hop on your hovercar and decide to go on a road trip to Tir. The biggest Rebel metropolis on the planet. Being Neutral in a world of black and white is tough, but it pays. But it's just a game anyway, Anarchy Online to be exact.
Anarchy Online is one of the most anticipicated games since it's shows at E3 since 1996 and it's been delayed several times up until now. The official release date now is June 27th 2001 and most of us have been waiting months or years for it. And since it's unofficial release date in the late 1900's it's had more facelifts and make-overs than Lori Anderson. Now the game has become ever greater than it's original plan was.
The giant world where, which, you live on with many other players online (50,000 at the most) is called Rubi-ka. It's a barren land plagued with deserts and small oasis's. That's what the greedy Omni-tek Organisation thought until they struck "notum". The "notum" they found was discovered to have strong powers, enough to run factories, space shuttles, and the like. Some of the natives that had colonized the planet before them kept the notum a secret to outsiders, which was an easy thing to do since Rubi-ka a was planet on the outer ring or the aestroids but now the Omni-tek had found it and is using it for trading and supplies. Many of the inhabitants turned on them and fought back for the planet. These people on Anarchy Online are referred to as the "Rebels" or "Clans". But many of them are not mindless kamakazes, they have morals and belief the planet should be returned to it's natural state or given back to the rightful owners.
Anarchy Online is a Multi-player Online Roleplaying Game meaning many people will have their own character on the same plane (this one being Rubi-ka) where which they can interact, trade, kill, drink, socialise with, and among many other countless things.
When you create your new character you will be able to make your own name for him/her (being Callname, first, and last name). Then after that you will choose skin colour and race. The races being Solitus (Human), Opifex (Semi-human, slim, and silent), Atrox (Semi-human, big, tough, dumb), and Nano (Semi-human, android-like, very smart).
You can also choose the style and colour of your hair, (from Afros to Mullets) your eye colour, and size of your figure. After you are done making your character you get your own apartment in a building of the city you start in. In your apartment you can manipulate, add to it, and have parties if you want. But don't worry about intruders, you have the only key to it, unless you have friends you can make copies of it for them too.
And if you think this is just going to be like Everquest except fifteen-thousand-six-hundred and ten years in the future you are WRONG. The world is going to be changable, the developers are going to occasionally going to make events happen, like a Notum Mine blowing up or something and the terrain will actually be scattered with pieces and fire coming from it. Then appearances of the Omni-tek Corp leader Phillip Ross will come once and a while. Unlike Everquest it's much more fun because the atmosphere is going to look realistic where clouds that are dark could be rain or a storm and when lighting clouds are coming your way it isn't a good idea to be standing outside because there is a chance of getting hit and injured by the bolt that comes crashing down.
And if you ever get sick of doing the same quests over and over there is no more worries of that in Anarchy Online. Going to certain NPCs or modules will generate quests for you, and it will also generate special rewards you will get also.
Not a fighter? You gain popularity among the Rubi-ka citizens in the city without even touching a fly. Becoming a part of a player owned organisation is a great way to have fun. Besides the ability of having guildhalls in the city, you can make a reputation for yourself from trades, deals, treaties, or many other possible things with player organisations and people. By either your skills as a Mechanical Engineer or Quantum Professor you can make many-o-credit selling, trading, or sharing your products with players.
Whether your Omni-tek or Rebel is up to you but there is also a choice of purgatory known as Neutrality. Though once you choose your status from the start of the game (if you want to remain any of these factions) you must stay within the boundaries which make your them. Like, if I wanted to become an Omni-tek, I can't just go off and kill a bunch of Omni-tek guards or something. I could fall into Rebel status and be attacked by Player or NPC Omni-teks.
Whatever class/profession you choose to be is totally up to you from the start. You will be asked to put some initial ability points into certain types of skills (for example: Mechanical Engineering or Skill with Pistol) and choosing these will determine your class. If you wanted to be a Soldier you would prime your abilities in firearms probably, or if you wanted to be a semi-soldier semi-engineer, you can do combinations of skills.
While being a hybrid instead of an "au point" class might have a couple advantages, it doesn't have as many compared to pure classes. The classes are broken down into these:
Fixer -- outlaws. usually up to no good stealing
Agent -- espionage master
Engineer -- makes, Controls, and repairs electronic equipment such as robot pets and vehicles
Nano-tech -- people call them evokers of 'magic'
Meta-Physician -- spiritual nano-techs
Trader -- merchants, non-fighters
Doctor -- uses both nano and normal healing skills
Bureaucrat -- uses theoretical and manipulative skills to get his way
Adventurer -- jack-of-all-trades
Soldier -- obvious
Martial Artist -- obvious
If you aren't interested in the game by now, well, you should be. Hope to see you in game.
-"Burnsy" on Rubi-ka 1 Dimension
