Recent reviews by Lord Otaku Hikikomori

for some this as much as a compliment as it is an insult. its basically an expansion of mw2. couple new guns, new maps, zombies add on, and a revamped gear system. if you enjoy playing mw2 you will enjoy mw3, if you were hoping for a new game or whole new experience it isint one. the campaign is not worth buying the game for. but if the multiplayer grind is your thing like it is mine then at least you know what your getting into.

i got this for free from purchasing AMD products, and i honestly hate to say it...that still cost too much. one day they will understand why they murdered RTS and return to the original dawn of war / soul storm roots. but much like command and conquer series, another franchise killed its RTS.

moba cross breed half time strategy, over simplified yet still complicated, pretty trash over all.

one of the recent patchs was a huge nerf to everything, after struggling to survive and manage in the now messed up retarded game, they just again today ( 3/8/17 ) nerfed the last bit of anything useful, destroying dryad as a defense means and making this game simply impossible to play, they will never get another micro transaction from me ever again, ill probably simply uninstall tonight and see if dungeon defenders 1 still has a server or not.

10/10, ancient graphics, some poor balancing at times, have to use 3rd party software to play online because of the death of gamespy ( Tunngle is best rec. ) and i would still pick this over the new ea battlefront any day....

Absolutely amazing! love this game for the art and the physics can entertain me for hours, 10/10 but not for the weak minded or impatient people when it comes to complicated creations lots of trial and error. Hope we got get hot air balloons and some new types of launchers and graspers soon.

in a vague base point the combat is amazing and fun, there is a good story if you take the time to read the dialouges but that can be quite tedious to some people, if you ever played mabinogi this is pre-mabi, as in the dark war ages, the games dungeon system feels really nice and unuiqe untill you find you're self grinding dungeons over and over and over Post-Lvl 60, some people say its hard to level but honestly getting to 60 with out spending a dime on xp boosters is quite easy, 70 is actually pretty easy to with the addition of twilight desert farms,

Classes/Characters: Great options there is bound to be some thing for every one. 9/10 ( Sword or Hammer w/Shield Class, Dual Swords / Dual Spears Class, Dual Swords / Chain Blades Class, Staff / Scythe Class, Pillar / Guantlet Class, Giant Sword Class, Bow / Crossgun Class )

Graphics: Amazing graphics and Bloody Combat 10/10

Story: the story is quite good but the delivery is easily ignored and poorly presented 6/10

Combat: Action and Combo Style combat with lots of control 10/10

Pre-Lv40 Grind: Extremely Low

Post-Lv40 Grind: Light

Post-Lv60 Grind: Medium

Grinding can feel quite different for lots of people but to my experiences from flyff back in the day and games like runescape or some of the perfect world series, vindictus grind is quite low and balanced imo 8/10, some might feel other wise,

Cash Shop: Needed for hairstyles, Inner Armors, Extended Inv, and high end weapon Enchanting / Enhancing , as well as quite addicting to some people and can cause quite the cash spend , 6/10

To simply start things off the game still has work to be done but its still quite decent, ill break things down and explain the best i can for people looking to give it a go.

This review is based off 100+ hours of gameplay and tactics

Graphics: 7/10

The graphics are not near as bad as alot of people keep claiming, there can be quite a bit of fps issues depending on a person's rig and setup, this game does not wear near as much on your gpu as it does your cpu due to large groups of npcs and moving objects in the world swaying grass etc etc, i run a amd hd 5770 and run on full ultra but thats mostly thanks to my amd phenom II x6 ( six cores @ 2.8ghz ea ) processor, grass is good, lighting looks good, every thing except the animations are visualy appealing to me, its not far cry 3 or AC Black flag or bf3 so dont expect those graphics besides purty pictures aint erry thing....

Sound: 6/10

To be honest the games pretty quiet....the way it should be....birds chirping ambient noises, wind and of course zombies...the zombies noises can be iffy some times not the worst but not the best, the largest problem i have with sound is "mute" zombies....when suddenly u cant hear them moving or breathing or any thing completely destroying what u rely on to know when there coming, this does not happen to often but can occur some times.

F2P Shop:

this is useless.....the game does not "force" you into buying any thing at all the only thing i ever bought gc for was character cosmetics, i needed nothing from the shop at all, i was more then capable of going out and getting every thing i needed in the world and from people who thought they were "sneaky" bandits, the system has been even further changed from the way it use to be in the fact that the shop no longer uses GC, GC is converted to ingame cash ( giant waiste of time and money imo ) , the loot system have been further upgraded and even more so now with V2 Release, any thing u need u can find.

Core Gameplay:

Stealth: its not that hard to avoid zombies and stealth your way around, its a learned and very important tactic in this game and can be further improved by leveling in the skill tree with skills such as noise dampering and reduced detection radius/sight, this is the largest reason people fail in this game and fall victim to bandits, one does not simply RUN into town, scope your surroundings be patient and watch the town a second before you enter, make use of binoculars and gun scopes, stay low stick to shadows and cover and make use of the 3rd person camera.

PvE: Supplies and Zeds, IMO the food and water is almost too easily managed after picking up a few skills in the survival tree, slower hunger/thirst decrease, better med use, and various other things simply along the fact of food/water is every where....and so are the zeds, rely heavily on stealth to get in and out of towns for supplies rely on melee and tactics not shoot and attract every player and zed in a 1KM Radius because u want to run around like a arcade shooter, its a SURVIVAL SIM....not killing floor / Dead island....

PVP: This is where the game can hurt, Dedicated PvE servers feel really neccesary and dont exist there is no way to ENFORCE PvE, there are PvE servers but there prone to bad bandits who cant handle real servers running in and gunning down the PvE groups so they feel better about them selves or because they couldint handle normal servers.....that is normal servers are any thing goes....chances of befriending people that arent clan mates on normal servers? LOW, be prepared to kill who ever when ever, they say there friendly join up with you and the second you let your guard down your stuff is now theres, Granted u can group and play with People some times and all goes well but the majority of open servers and non-private clans are blood thirsty murder dens...if thats your slice of pie your in heaven kill and expect to be killed at all times, Trust must be earned in this enviroment.

Overall: Play stealthy and smart or join a private PvE Clan that owns a server or knows how to handle them selves in open world, the game can be difficult and challenging to some and quite easy to others.


Final Verdicts:

Enjoyable: Yes

Challenging: Yes

Pay to Win/Cash shop: No/Useless ( cosmetics are nice if your into character features but can also be obtained with out spending money )

PVP: Hardcore

Hackers: Very limited after new security features / Counter Measures and NONE in private Passworded servers ( unless a hacker clan owns the server but then u probably dont have the password any ways )

Price: 10$ would be a more solid price for alot of people but i am fine with the 15$ price tag as i have quite enjoyed the game.

Dayz: It isint dayz....its not like dayz.....if you played dayz you would know this......dont compare the two, either play it or dont

played this game for years, its a grind happy giant explorable world in a anime style setting and the effect of a fantasy life, wether you just want to sit back around a camp fire with friends, or cook, play as a bard and compose your own music, roam the lands, be a farmer, build a house, do quest, crawl dungeons, be a adventure, mage, warrior, pupeteer, archer, javelin, alchemist, merchant, fighter ( martial arts style combat ) , carpenter, cook, holy arts, medicine, smith, tailor, transmutation, trasformation master ( studying a monster enough to copy and transform into it ), and even more as new generation patchs continue to come, the game is easily worth a try regardless of what your into, if you give it a try add me- Icedelyne @ Mari Server ( Also there are now free weekly rebirths for every one regardless of total level )