I thought it would be good to give a little review of some of the most popular MMORPGs you can play for free.
These are two I would recommend:
Fly for Fun
and
Rappelz
Both are distributed by
Gpatato and are absolutely free to download AND play.
First lets talk about Fly for Fun (Flyff) as it is still my favorite.
The graphics are very pleasent, colorful and maybe a bit childish but none the less amusing. It is an Anime style game, made in Korea.
The ultimate goal of the game is to reach the highest level, 120 and gain experience and rare items, including flying board and brooms...
Flying is the major characteristic of the game. Once your caracter hits level 20, you are capable of using either a broom or a board and fly to your destination.
There are 4 classes you can choose from: Mage, Mercenary, Assist or Acrobat.
Each class has a different set of special abilities. That makes an nice element of change should you get bored of your Level 22 Mage and wish to try something different.
The only downfall is that quests can get a bit boring and repettitive. After you killed 100 Lawolfs, you kinda want to move on to something else and sometimes the drop rate of quest items can be pretty low. Dispite this fact, the game is farelly addictive and Gpatato made it pretty interesting with new PvP arenas, one PvP channel (in the other chanels, dualing is possible but you can't kill your oponent), mining and a wide variaty of special events. Since it is absolutely free, Gpatato gets its financing by selling special game items (like a bunny costume during the Easter event) for a small fee to interested players.
I give a big 4 stars to Flyff
Now when it comes to Rappelz, the same commun feature apply (PvP arenas, a PvP channel, mining or gathering of some valuable items) You can also by special game items from Gpatato and they conduct pretty nice spacial events. Rappelz however is a much more advanced and sofisticated game than Flyff and the graphics are much superior. The World of Rappelz is also much bigger.
The main feature is that you can, and most likely should, tame a wild beast to become your pet and help you during quests. Here again the goal is to get to level 120 and you can choose from 3 Races; Deva, Gaia and Asura. Within those races, you can choose different classes at different levels.
Leveling up is farelly easy in the biggining but once again, quests can become repettitive and boring. One big plus for this game is the veriaty of quests you can work on at the same time.
According to me, the biggest flaw is the interface. You can't move arround and do everything using the mouse...Flyff was better for that as you could have your Spells on keyboard shortcut and walk around using the mouse... you can't do that in Rappelz...it's very big on the keyboard.
But once you get used to it, it's pretty nice to play and also gets very addictive.
My vote for Rappelz is 3.5 Stars
Of course, there are tons of free MMORPGs out there that you can try. Here are a few others I have stumbled uppon:
And many more... You can find a decent list of what is out there on
MMOHUB .
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