 Not perfect but oh so fun, 2007-07-20
This is a buggy game. Everyone knows that. But it is one of the most fun games I've ever played. Its kept my intrest for over 4 years now. Also its free; so download it off the net and come give it a try!
4 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
 From a Newbie at these mmorg games, 2004-10-30
I kept hearing about the online playing games awhile back ago and had recently got a cable modem so i decided to buy a couple and try them out. I bought Ultima and shadowbane when it first came out. I ended up staying with shadowbane because it seemed to take more thought and detail into what you have to do. Ultima seemd more "kid-like" (i dont mean to offend anyone). I didnt seem to run into hardly any problems as most people for some reason. I also dont have any friends that play it but found it very easy to find help from others and had no trouble joining guilds and getting power leveled by them. Of course there were jerks on there but plenty of those in the real world also.Over all it was and addictive game that i got fully engulfed in and highly recopmmend it. I never did the trial but it doesnt do it justice.
3 of 9 customers found the following review helpful:
 Better ones out there, 2004-08-28
Hi
I did the free trial for a couple of days..the interface is a nightmare..pretty bad graphics for a newer mmorpg.....tedious game play...I'll pass on this and go back to DOAC.
4 of 7 customers found the following review helpful:
Don't bother unless you have a few dozen friends, 2004-05-19
The game is fun, if you have a few dozen friends already ingame to watch over you. While the game protects players until level 20, you don't become viable in any of the serious combat situations until level 50. With experience, you can hit level 50 in a week; however, if you just start the game, it could take you close to a solid month.This is not a light gaming experience at all. If you're looking for an MMOG to try out just for the sake of trying it out, I suggest City of Heroes or Dark Age of Camelot. Shadowbane is "advanced" MMOG gaming. It requires you like hunting and being hunted by other people, at all times and in all places, and being comfortable ending the playsession further behind than where you started. That's why I gave it 2 stars. It's not a good all-around title. It's fun for a very specific type of player.
9 of 16 customers found the following review helpful:
 Shadowbane is a waste, 2004-04-02
I've played Shadowbane since beta. It's a game with great potential, but its developers and programmers strive to fail in every aspect possible.Shadowbane has been on the open market for over 1 year and it still performs worse than some games that are in beta1. For example, the engine has been running on pure cpu power. The software engineers failed to utilize graphics cards or sound cards. SB.EXE instant crash errors, line of sight errors, pathing that doesnt even pretend to work properly, severe class balance issues that should've been addressed in beta, siege warfare on player build cities is a joke and only just recently have they implimented any sort of modification to it, constant class changes that keep you continuously rerolling characters because when UBI swings the "nerf bat"... they swing it hard, CCR/CSR's that fly by the seat of their pants without any regard for the players, nearly a complete lack of customer support, map casting, gold duping, blaytont favortism by the "Featured Character" GM's at "FC events" that distributed "phat lewt" to a very small handful of people on multiple occassions. They released an expansion pack for Shadowbane while the main program itself was filled with bugs. They've opened several new servers and migrated characteres over with promises of "new and exciting adventure"... then executed an expert "cut and paste" job. The quality of the graphics are very, very sad. This game, and everything associated with it, is a waste of time and money. I'm never buying anything that involves Ubi Soft or Wolfpack Studios again.
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