I’ve been playing this free browser-based MMO for the past couple of weeks. It’s…ok. I guess the idea is to build up your city and heroes and (guessing here, really) conquer the world. On the plus side, it’s free, doesn’t require an install, and is played in little bite sized chunks (seriously, if you can figure out a way to spend more than 10 minutes at a time on this game, I’d like to hear how). You send your heroes on a mission, or you build something, and then come back in 8 hours to see how it went.
The idea of a Civ-like MMO has long struck me as the best concept for a video game ever. I think I would drop out of society for months playing a game like that.
This game has enough similarities to that to keep me interested, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired. Mostly, the game is thoroughly confusing. I don’t understand what I’m supposed to be doing most of the time. It would be nice if the early quests didn’t take two weeks to complete, during which time I don’t get any new quests. Plus, most of that time is spent waiting to have enough resources to complete the next stage of the quest.
I thought I’d throw this up there to see if anyone else was playing and if so, to get some questions answered.