many icons on the screen at once, which becomes rather confusing when trying to battle a difficult enemy. I do believe, however, that this particular interface works well despite the confusion of hot-keys, spells, inventory, etc.
Sound: 7
The music is decent; it does its job and creates a feeling that works well with the environments. That's about it. The music is just there, no real complaints here. The ambience is quite pleasing and helps create a good mood, just like the music. Sound effects are also quite good and sound as they should.
Gameplay: 3.75
I really hate to give this a low score, but that is exactly how I feel. The game starts out very fresh and new compared to other games that have come out within the last two years. I created my first character, an undead warrior, and began my journey in a small village. My first quest was to defeat some mobs (the enemies) and collect x amount of an item. Well, two days later, I found myself continuing to get similar quests and some point in time I began to wonder what exactly was so great about this game. Well, in my opinion, this game is not nearly as good as Diablo. Perhaps it's because I play single player and hate multiplayer in just about every game. But then I reminded myself that the game would probably not be much different offline than it is online, save for the fact that if the game was offline, we wouldn't have to put up with the incredulous Tuesday maintenance…which can last from six hours to all day. This is unacceptable given that six million people play this game. What they should do is have server maintenance every weekday for three hours early in the morning (perhaps 6:00 am-9:00 am?). This would diminish the need for such long server maintenance on only Tuesdays and may even help the game fix many of its bugs.
