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Tom's Hardware Reviews Dungeons & Dragons Online

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by chevalier, Apr 27, 2006.

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    There's a new Dungeons & Dragons Online Review at Tom's Hardware, and it spans over six pages. Here's an excerpt from the first one:

    The market for massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPGs) is a crowded one. There are multiple titles all offering to satisfy the need that many of us have to explore the boundaries of virtual worlds and share those worlds with others. MMORPGs promise the opportunity to experience life as a superhero, a Star Wars bounty hunter or an enterprising starship captain. The most prolific experience offered, however, is that of the fantasy realm adventurer.

    Through the generations of MMORPGs - from Ultima Online to EverQuest, down through Asheron's Call, Dark Age of Camelot, and Shadowbane - the only constant has been swords and sorcery. One could argue that all of these games are a direct result of a single phenomenon: the pen-and-paper role playing game called Dungeons & Dragons. It was D&D, first published in 1974, that brought so many of us together in musty basements for long hours with twice-warmed pizza and a two litre of Pepsi, to take on the evil inhabitants of each other's imaginations. Despite the modern MMORPG being a direct descendant of D&D, until now the progenitor of this genre was conspicuously missing from the roster of popular online computer games. There was no official Dungeons & Dragons MMORPG to move the beloved franchise into the digital world. That has all changed now, with the release of Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach (DDO).

    Read the whole thing at Tom's.

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