Neocron Review

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(More customer reviews)I'll start out by saying that I've only been playing Neocron for a couple of weeks (it only came out in the US 3 or 4 weeks ago.)So far, I completely love the game.I've played other MMORPGs (Asheron's Call, Anarchy Online, Dark Age of Camelot), but Neocron is by far my favorite.
I am a big fan of the cyberpunk, post-apoclyptic setting, and Neocron does it beautifully (both in the specific sense of graphics and sound, and in the more general sense.)I think the developers at Reakktor learned a lot from the experiences of past MMORPGs, and made great strides toward solving many of the biggest problems.PKing is one area where I think they did a great job:
Everyone starts with a "Law Enforcer Implant" - basically an item that prevents them from damaging OR being damaged by other players.This implant reduces EXP and money gain, and makes it harder to use the items in the game (higher stat requirements.)Removing the implant is an easy task, but takes long enough that you won't do it accidentally.If you leave your LE in, you will never have to worry about being PKed.However, once you take your LE out, you can be PKed, but *only* in certain areas - which do not include most of the newbie areas.
Neocron also includes a very robust tradeskill / crafting / whatever you want to call it system.Tradeskills are very important, as many items cannot be bought in stores, or are a) prohibitively expensive, or b) very poor quality.
A very exciting feature of the game is the Outpost system.Outside the city, there are outposts of five kinds: Labs, Forts, Uplinks, Mines, and Factories.A Clan in the game (an organization of players) can go and capture one of these outposts.All the players in that Clan will then receive a bonus to the appropriate skill when at the outpost.This can be vital to constructing high level or high quality items.The outposts are one of the driving forces behind the PvP activity in the game.
I'll conclude by saying that this game is, as every MMORPG I know has been, a work in progress.There are still bugs in the game (though recovering from them is usually painless), and the devs continue to release patches tweaking the existing content and adding new content.Please try this game, but do understand that it is early in its lifetime!

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Fight against horrible monsters and hideous mutants for power, glory and wealth! / Rated T: Teen

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