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Anarchy Online - Shadowlands Toured
Thanks to GameSpy for their in-character guide tour of Anarchy Online:Shadowlands, the newest expansion pack for Funcom's PC cyberpunk MMORPG. The article references the game's botched launch back in 2001: "The very name brings up images of anarchy when one remembers the disastrous first effort at colonizing the planet. Basic services didn't work, colonists disappeared, weapons and equipment suffered from mysterious breakdowns, and there was fear that the entire notum project would have to be abandoned." But it goes on to suggest that: "Even now Omni-Tek Corporation has difficulty recruiting colonists. That's unfortunate, though, because the corporation has long since stabilized the situation." Can/should MMORPGs be given a second chance after a bad launch?
Anarchy Online? Isn't everything online basically Anarchy? Especially with MSBlast, Melissa, Code Red, Sircam, skript kiddez running around, etc.
If that doesn't define anarchy, I challenge you to tell me what does.
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Hey, let's not start requiring people to read the instructions. Obviously the leet should have dropped dead from force of will alone. :P
Dude, You could disarm your rifle and smack a leet to death. But I guess not reading the instructions and spending three hours stumbling around a game makes you more than qualified to review a game these days.