Heroes of Gaia (MMORPG)

I wanted to play an MMORPG for this week because that is what we focused on last class and I have little to no experience with them. I found a free one called Heroes of Gaia. In this game you choose from one of four races: elf, human, orc, and undead. You must defend you castle from other players while trying to build up fame and a strong army. An important aspect of this game is gathering various materials like wood and gold. You can build up your castle, which can do everything from building up its defenses, allowing you to recruit new heroes (you attach units to specific heroes), and training new forces. There are also various cards which give certain bonuses.

Maybe I just have very little experience with MMORPGs, but this game is really confusing and pretty boring. It took me quite some time just to figure out how to attack soldiers to my hero so I could kill some things.  The fighting is also turn-basedish, and just really not satisfying.  You can either attack monsters to get more resources, or you can wait to get a certain amount each hour. Once I started running low on soldiers I couldn’t really do much until my resources built themselves back up. This made the game incredibly boring and kept pulling up other screens while the game was running in the background.

Lame fight

I guess I shouldn’t be expecting too much from a free game, but I was incredibly disappointed with the game play. I am quite surprised that people actually play this game. It seems like the kind of game achievers would really like, because there is a fame leader board. However, explorers would not like it because the graphics aren't spectacular and there isn’t really much to explore.

Not much to explore, just basically this over and over again

One more complaint. The chat system works where everyone can see what you type unless you set it to private or clan. That means I kept having to see annoying teens cuss at each other for tattling to the administrators.

Clearly I would not recommend this game to anyone unless you are great at multitasking and do actually entertaining things while playing. But even then, what would be the point?

I rate it 1 out of 5 stars that I only give to certain games for some reason.