Has anyone played either one of these? I haven’t, but am thinking of picking one or both up, but I am unsure whether they suck- WWIIOL has gotten some crappy reviews, but I hear that some major patches have come out, and Anarchy Online seems to be lacking reviews.
Can anyone help me out?
Thanks in advance.
There are many reviews of AO up on the web. Most of them are pretty harsh–in its current form it is literally unplayable. Think about 1 crash every 5 - 20 minutes on the average and frame rates lower than 5 fps in busy areas of the game, even on high end machines, broken features galore, etc.
somethingawful.com has some rather hysterical coverage of the game.
The game itself seems rather promising after they release some patches. I figure in about a year, if Funcom doesn’t tank (likely), it should be a great game.
No idea about WWIIO, though.
I have played AO for about a week now. It does crash often though. I’d say a crash for every 1.5-2 hours of play. Not too bad, but bad enough. The real killer is the graphical lag in the game. Whenever you go to a city, or anywhere were there are many people, the computer churns and churns, and you generally have to wait 5-30 seconds for the computer to catch up to the situation. I’ve got a Thunderbird 850, GeForce2 GTS and 256ram. Not a stellar system, but it should be MORE than adequate to play any game. I’ve heard WWIIO has a lot of problems too, like guns not having sounds or models. I can’t imagine what the beta tests must have been like for these games :. AO is pretty interesting once it works though.
Mister SuperDuctTapeMan- Thanks for the info- What kind of 'net connection do you have? Do you think that your connection has anything to do with it?
Slortar- Thanks for the link. I think I’ll enjoy that site.
The servers are pretty messed up on AO. You get lag even if you have cable. The beta test was fine untill a whole bunch of people showed up. Its lag is comparable to when diablo 2 first launched, but the actual game sucks. You wont notice this as the game will be too lagged for you to realise how crappy it is.
WWO, I haven’t played this, but from what I have heard they are more screwed up than AO. They did not even have a beta test.