Asheron's Call for Windows

Pros: Interaction with other players, building up character
Cons: Lag, slow travel, cities look the same

I’ve stayed away from video games because I get easily addicted, staying up all night, with bloodshot eyes, and half my brain awake trying to beat one more level and just one more quest. Finally, after several months of rejecting my friends’ invitation...

Pros: Can I get back to you on that?
Cons: Inferior to existing products in every conceivable way.

A quick, open memo to anyone out there designing MMOLRPG (massively multiplayer on-line role playing game): you'd better make a game that people are going to be willing to spend a lot of time with. On the four characters that I play with in...

Pros: Easy to learn interface, nice character creator, classes are nicely balanced.
Cons: Only one playable race, easy to get lost.

Have you ever bought a game, taken it home, played around with it for a few minutes, and think it was the coolest thing since sliced bread, only to slowly realize over the course of a few days that it's actually got some nasty flaws? Such was my...

Pros: Great graphics, easy to learn, and the allegiance system helps out weaker characters.
Cons: Poor AI, no trade system, not as much variety as would hope.

The great magician Asheron has summoned only the bravest from the land of Ispar to an island known as Dereth. The land is filled with riches, artifacts of the past, and danger at every corner. Will you heed the call? If you choose to, get ready...

Pros: Guild structure
Cons: Roll playing people abound

Asheron's Call, referred to as AC for this review, is an online game you play with literally thousands of other players from around the world. As a summary of what I think I'll say that AC is fun for the first 25 levels (about 40-50 hours of play) and...

Pros: Fun, Good online support, regular updates
Cons: Addicting

I bought this game as a gift for my husband. He had gotten bored with all his other countless games because, "They don't change, and I won." So I was trapped with an unhappy husband.

This game seemed fine, role playing, spell...

Pros: Magic System, Balanced Combat
Cons: Need a FAST connection to the net, redundant, levelquest

When I signed up for AC beta around the same time I signed up for EQ beta, I thought to myself great, Ill get to try out 2 games at around the same time! With this thought I would test and decide which would be the better of the two. I already realized...

Pros: Multiplayer Hack 'n Slash gameplay, nice graphics, innovative magic and allegiance system
Cons: Monthly fee required, Internet lag can hamper gameplay, it is by Microsoft

Asheron's Call is the new offering into the sparse and highly lucrative field of massively multiplayer online games. Joining the ranks with Everquest and Ultima Online, Microsoft hopes to carve out its own segment of happily paying gamers on the world of...

Pros: Very addicting, hours fly by.
Cons: Very addicting, hours really do fly by.

By far, this is one of the best games I have ever had the pleasure of playing. While this game has some problems with it, they are quite few considering the magnitude of what the game encompasses.

The game takes place in the mystical...

Pros: Deep, non-linear, interaction with other players
Cons: Connection issues

I recieved this game at Christmas, took a couple weeks to actually start playing it (i had some issues with payment and not a lot of time), and now spend all my free time in the world of Dereth. This is an incredible massively multiplayer role-playing...

Pros: great graphics
Cons: not as convincing as others

Asheron's Call

After dealing with it for a few months, we've decided to let the machine get it from now on.

January 14, 2000

Asheron's Call had a lot of promise that it just didn't live up to. We originally devoted a...

Pros: excellent mechanics, graphics, sound, etc
Cons: bad lag sometimes. gotta pay ten bucks a month to play =(

First, i would like to express impressment at this game. This game i beleive will revolutionize the multiplayer game world. I purchased this game after playing the beta on MSN The Zone, and i was very impressed at the beta version. The graphics are good,...

Pros: Great way to meet new friends, eye-boggling graphics, awesome roleplaying adventure, CONSTANTLY BEING UPDATED!!
Cons: $10 Monthly Fee

Asheron’s Call is the ultimate in immersive fantasy: a massively multi-player, persistent role-playing game filled with stunning visuals and an ongoing epic story that evolves as you play.

Players can adventure together through strange lands...

Pros: Never-ending game environment, excellent character creation, intuitive control interface, and stunning sorcery effects.
Cons: Available only online by subscription to the MSN Gaming Zone, quiet time between actual action/interaction due to the huge environment

Asheron's Call is a truly deep and wonderful game that I feel may continue to grow and possibly even become a true classic one day. The mysterious and dangerous land of Dereth is a dynamic environment fraught with real, earth-changing events. Cataclysms...

Pros: Gorgeous, exciting, well-done
Cons: Not enough races or classes to choose from, addictive

Asheron's Call is a fantastic game. The graphics are gorgeous (considering this game is played over the internet), gameplay is smooth more often than not (even on my 56K modem), and overall it's well developed.

The storyline and history of...