| Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach Limited Edition | 
| From: Atari
Category: Video Games
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Seller: CdromUSA
Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 6,572
Format: CD-ROM
Platform: Windows XP
Genre: role_playing_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Limited
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.5 x 1.8
MPN: 27213
Model: 27213
UPC: 742725272132
EAN: 0742725272132
ASIN: B000E0PIFI
Release Date: February 28, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | DDO game playable only on U.S. servers | | • | Coordinate tactics and strategies with your party using integrated voice chat. | | • | Control every swing, block and tumble in pulse-pounding real-time battles. | | • | Face unforgiving Danger in private dungeons with fiendish traps and foes that punish the foolish. | | • | Create a unique hero from nine classes, five races and millions of combinations of skills, feats and appearances. |
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Product Description
Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach takes you into a classic fantasy world, for incredible MMORPG gaming. Travel to Stormreach for exciting adventures, where you'll face impossible challenges and unbeatable monsters -- all for fortune and glory. Choose from nine classes and five races, including the Eberron Warforged race - then enter ancient dungeons and complete missions to find gold, magic and treasure. Beware: Each dungeon has multiple paths to success. While a fighter is best off slaying the enemies before him, a rogue with Hide and Move Silently skills might be best off avoiding their notice. Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach is the first massively multiplayer online role-playing game to feature voice chat Integrated into the service. Follows the D&D version 3.5 Core Rules. Limited Edition features a special DDO Red Dragon Poster, "Feats Chart", special packaging and a new in-game item: Boots of Running. Gather in taverns to meet fellow adventurers, find new allies and quests, and rest up between battles Integrated voice chat lets you coordinate your team efforts more effectively
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 Very good game, but not perfect November 19, 2009
P. Karlsson
This isn't a game that should be played solo, but if you know how to play the game and use the skillpoints/Feats and Enhancements that can be chosen to their best. You can actually solo quests very far into the game, but you will need to use your resources (potions, wands, scrolls...)
But the fun comes when you start to play and interact with other players. All quests, except for a very few ones, can be entered with 6 characters. So you can wait until you find 5 others to play with that you think will complement your character best. Or you can start earlier and do it with fewer persons. Often just 2-4 characters can safely complete the quests around your lvl if they play together.
Lvl cap is at lvl 20 now and you can choose between Fighter, Barbarian, Ranger, Paladin, Cleric, Favored Soul, Rogue, Bard, Wizard, Sorcerer, Monk or a combination thereof. Add to that the fact that you can choose between many different races (Human, Dwarf, Elf, Halfling, Warforged or Drow) that gives different benefits both at starting lvl and further up. All this gives you a huge variety of characters that you can create and play. Will you create a Warforged Sorcerer that can heal himself and blast enemies into flames or a more careful elven wizard that buffs his friends and just occasionally use offensive spells? Will your dwarven cleric become a battlecleric or be a pure healer keeping the others healthy? Will your drow ranger be the new Robin Hood or the new Drizzt? Will you give your human sorcerer a divine boost with a lvl of cleric to be able to use healing scrolls and wands to be of further use to the party? Will you combine your rogueskills with the music of the bard to be able to both remove possible traps and heal himself if a trap explodes while you tinker with it? The possibilities are endless. Only your imagination sets the limits. And since you can have 16 different characters on each server, you have alot of slots to experiment with.
Between each lvl you will reach 4 ranks. Each rank gives you one Action Point that you can use to improve your character by learning new enhancements from trainers. I like this feature since it gives the character a feel of continuing development instead of a sudden boom of knowledge when he reaches a new lvl.
I don't know how the majority is on all servers, but the one I play on have many helpful members and even a stupid question will be answered and new players will, for the most time, be able to find someone experienced to help them if they ask. I've found players to be much more helpful in this game than other MMO games I've played (like WoW). Since normal quests takes a while longer here you get to know other players as well, you learn which players can play and their strengths, and just as important you learn which characters that can't play or simply are there for their own sake and doesn't care about others.
There are downsides to this game and that comes when you reach the higher lvls. You need to repeat certain quests often to have a decent chance to get the good items you need to be able to be of much use in the tougher quests. Some quests takes more than 1 hour and doesn't guarantee that you get what you want in the end anyway. And most extraordinary items are bound to the character that picks them up first, so you can enter a long tough quest with your rogue and in the end find yourself with the ring that you've been hunting for with your ranger for weeks and with no chance to give it to him.
I've been playing this game on and off for almost 3 years now. I tire of it for a while, but I always find myself coming back after a month or three. I left WoW 6 months ago and don't miss it at all, and I did play a lot of characters up to around lvl 60 before I tired of it.
DDO also gives continues updates for free. Unlike WoW you don't need to buy each new add-on when it is released, when something new is added to this game you download it automatically and when it's done you have the new options available to you. No need to run to the store to buy the latest expansion just to be able to find the new powerful weapons or enter the new areas, you get them for your monthly fee.
I won't say this is a perfect game, because it isn't. But of the MMO I've played over the years, it is the best overall. At least if you enjoy playing with others more than play alone. And I, for one, think that is the point with a MMO. If I wanted to play a RPG solo there are other great games to play instead that doesn't cost money each month.
If you are a WOW fanboi, Nothing to see here, move along. September 2, 2007
George Lenny (California)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Yep, if you think WOW, EQ2 and now LOTRO are the best thing since sliced bread you will hate this game. It is not zerg friendly, solo friendly or mindless. In short it is mature and lends itself to tactics and cooperation.
The graphics are cutting edge, if your rig can handle them you can dial in a superbly rendered world. Not the last generation cartoons of the older MMORPGS. You can let the computer fight for you if you are WOW lazy or you can twitch fight like the best first person shooter out there. Some of it is soloable for anyone, most of it is soloable by somebody who takes the time to figure out what is what. Because of the superb use of instances most of the quests are lag free if you have a 1/2 way decent machine to play with.
Problems? Sure, all games have them. The game company, Turbine, is treating it like a niche game so its new content expansion is not getting first priority like its whitebread cousin LOTROL. They figured out the WOW fanbois just want more of the same and went towards the money. It is not PnP D&D but is a reasonable facsimile. It can be laggy in the central game zones and when transferring between zones. If you don't understand how easy they have made voice chat you would think the game is unfriendly as few talk in the general channels. The world is limited, there is only limited exploration or random encounters (a hallmark of PnP).
 DDO is the best! August 1, 2007
Ben (Lynn, MA USA)
DDO is a great MMO. It's very unique and although it doesn't hit the actual Dungeons and Dragons on the nail, those who enjoy playing D&D will find this game very interesting. I was skeptical at first when I heard of an online version of D&D and thought, "that's stupid. You'll NEVER get the freedom of actual D&D". But despite those feelings, I absolutely LOVED the game. It's still updating every month or so and still gets better and better.
D&D Online December 3, 2006
BobSutan (Maryland)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Let me first start by saying this is not World of Warcraft. If you like extensive solo play, this is not the game for you.
The Good: If you like playing with others, such as a guild or with friends, then this can be a VERY enjoyable game. The integrated voice chat is better than most and the graphics are a notch above what else is available in terms of MMORPGs. And thanks to the in-game DM narrating the scenes for you, and the robust character generation process, it certainly has the D&D flavor.
The Bad: There are some things that I don't like, namely being limited to only the one city, ranks, and the confining nature of the game. While this may lend itself well to dungeon crawling, its not what most are accustomed to, which probably has more to do with my playing WoW for a year or so before ever touching DDO. Being used to open environments, sprawling cityscapes, and a multitude of vendors, the world of DDO seems tiny.
Something else that took some getting used to, while not "bad", is the combat controls. There is a small learning curve to DDO, but its easily worked out by the first rank or two.
Summary:
Pros:
Graphics
Character generation
It actually feels like D&D
Grouping is easy once you get the hang of the interface
Integrated voice chat
Great game for friends to play if they like to group a lot
Cons:
Limited to a single city
Solo play is limited
Ranks instead of full levels
No large-scale outdoor exploration
Small learning curve for controls
Score: I docked it 1 star due to the limited availability of solo quests and their use of ranks in between levels. The rest of the game is a really good D&D experience.
The bottom line: If you're looking for a good translation of the pen & paper version of D&D to the PC, and you really like dungeon crawls, then you'll fully enjoy DDO.
 No Love for Clerics November 24, 2006
M. P. Sutton
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
Great game, if you want to feel like it was to be a minority in the Jim Crow South
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