Asherons Call went retail a while after EQ, and like many people who played EQ and were a bit burnt probably jumped to AC... How wrong a move it was.... Unfortunately Asherons Call has a lot of potential, it seems like the started out programming carefully, and halfway got bored and through the rest together... its a huge world with various cities and dungeons...

Unfortunately for AC, the graphics are very "old school" compared to EQ, The environment in EQ is much more detailed and laid out more "realistically" When I first played AC, the dungeons were spread out through the world just sitting somewhere as a simple purple Portal... and each dungeon pretty much had the same cheesy graphics and weird AI.

The interface has many options but that seems to be a downfall too, it has many options, so many you get confused how to do things... You have to play with it for a while to figure out how to do everything, I did like the combat system a bit, the idea of having more control over how you use your weapon, but that's about it... The environment screams old school video game... Maybe im spoiled by EQ, but it seems to me it needs to be put together a bit better, Each Dungeon should be unique, and have some sort of story to it.. Not just a portal to a dungeon where various monsters happen to roam... In EQ you know what Solusek B is all about, You know that the SplitPaw gnolls rule the Paw dungeon, and the entrances are in places that at least make sense.. And not a purple portal on top of a normal looking green hill....