Lineage II Reviews
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The gameworld itself looks very good, with realistic landscapes filled with hills, waterfalls, and other features and detailed cities. There are also a lot of other touches such as abandoned ruins or altars scattered through the wilderness, although they seem to be placed there more for atmosphere than anything else. I think that this graphic beauty comes at a bit of a price, though, as the game experienced regular lag and slow down when in areas with numerous players or creatures.
If you are really looking for a player versus player MMOG and have the time and patience to invest in reaching the higher levels, then you will probably enjoy Lineage II. Most other RPG gamers will find that the work to get there is too slow and repetitive, and that there is not much there for those who don't want to tread the player versus player path.
And the second is at ESCMag with an overall score of 5/10:
Questing is of the same type as every other MMORPG. Search and destroy, fed ex missions, etc. Lineage 2 doesn't appear to do it any better or worse than any other game. The controls are awful. A mouse makes a fine targeting tool and tool to go through menus. A mouse is one of the WORST movement controls in my opinion. The game does give you the ability to use the keyboard to move, but you still need to use the mouse and the keyboard controls are clunky and poorly laid out.
Worse is that you can't customize your commands so that they are more comfortable to your play style. I sincerely hope that this is changed in a future update as it is a serious liability to the playability of Lineage 2.
