In this review, or you can say the future reviews, I will not write much about the basic
information of the games, however I will provide the links that provide the information.
The content of the review will be on
1) Fit to which type of gamers
2) The playing style of the game
3) The graphic quality and design
4) The behavior of the game community
5) P2p/f2p
cash shop6) Service provider
7) Abuse of game (aka hacking, bugging)
And of course, I will also provide with you the screenshots.
However, please note that the reviews are my opinion of the game and since everybody are different, so you might think differiently
~Perfect World International Review (aka PWI)~
PWI is launched 3 months ago which allows all the countries that to play except the ones which have their own version i.e PW-MY as they are ip blocked. However, this didn't stop other people from the blocked countries to use poxy to play.
For information on this game please click on these link
-Fit to which type of gamers-
If you like making friends and play in a party, this is a game for you. If you prefer to be go solo, well.. may be you should skip this game.. or you can consider to play Venomencer (Werefox in other version) as they are the most ' soloable' class compare to others. However please note that you cant solo the entire game as some quests (ie, cultivation, FB) have to be done in parties. Solo in this quest is almost impossible unless you do this kind of quests many levels after it is activated (do FB19 at lvl 30+++).
If you love PvPing (player versus player) you can choose Lost City server, In this server, you can be pked (player kill) by any player the moment you leave the safe zone. If you hate being killed, try Heavens Tear server instead. However, you will most likely get ksed by other players.
-The playing style of the game-
Like most 3D mmorog, it requires you to click on the mobs before you can use a skill. This prevent greatly use of bots in game.
-The graphic quality and design-
The graphic and effects are considered above average. The size of objects vs the size of players is proportional. In addition, the game has day time and night time as well. Most of the objects look realistic however, it can be improved if they focus more on the details of the objects like the stairs as it is just like a dam with shades of colours to make it like a a flock of stairs.
The size of the map is like World of Warcraft. It is huge. Some players might feel frustrated when they want to travel from one place to another place as the fee of the teleporter can be quite costly for new players.
Players can customise their character's face as much as they want to. However there are still limitations on the hairstyles. There are quite a number of hairstyles for you to choose but the length of all the hairstyles never fall below the shoulders. In addition, the shades of the hair colour is fixed.
-The behavior of the game community -
I have never tried any non-pvp server before so I will only write base on the experiences in pvp server. After the 3 months of playing PWI, I have noticed the members and leaders of some strong factions love to provoke other members of other factions in the World Chat channel especially when the 2 factions are in hostility. This will cause lots of flaming and spamming in world chat. However, I did not see any flaming that goes as low as scolding and cursing people's parents or racist commands as the user might get banned (thank God!).
-P2p/f2p cash shop-
PWI is completely f2p (free to play) and gets their most of their revenues via the use of cash shop. In the Cash Shop, they use in terms of gold and silver as their currency. And 1 gold is US$1.oo and 1 gold is equal to 100 silver. The items in the cash shop can be quite expansive for most players as some items like bride packages cost 30gold and players can also spend up to 400gold or even more to create battle pets like Phoenix. I have heard that some hardcore players wasted around 1k gold just to get a special mount which they stand a chance to get if they purchase a certain kind of package. Playing with out using cash shop is possible but most players will trade game currency for cash shop currency or items.
-Service provider-
Perfect World Entertainment Inc is the service provider PWI. As far as I know, there are GMs available almost any time of the day and are friendly and helpful. The only bad thing is that, they only give the players 10mins notice before they have unscheduled maintenance sometimes, where some players are engaged in some dungeon quests that are impossible to complete in just 10 mins.
-Abuse of game-
Till now, I haven't see anybody caught hacking the game. However, there are cases of players getting caught for botting and abusing of game glitch.
Here are some screenshots from PWI
Standing in a swan flying beast
FB19 boss
Fox mode
another FB19 boss
change view mode
ok then i downloaded the game and play and it... stucked...-_____-
so during the time I took a look at their forum..
ok if u cant read chinese... they were complaining about getting stuck and can't log in. However after 20 min or so I tried to log in again and finally!!!
yessshhhhhh!
OK END HERE!! ^_^ for the rest of the picture... stay tune for tml's post^^
