Allod

Allod is a free to play fantasy MMO

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Allod was released by gpotato a company known for it's free mmo's.

You may use money to purchase gpotatoes which can be used to buy items in the games they offer. You are not entitled to do this, but it does make your character(s) life easier.

When you first start Allod you are shown a screen with two factions facing off the League and the Empire. You then pick your race and a class archetype you will want to play. You can still scroll through and select another race or class that you might like to play. The picture shown is what your level 40 character might look like.

FACTION/RACE
Each faction has a choice of three races to play. The most interesting and *ahem* cute ones are the Gibberlings. There are no special abilities with each race, just the looks and play style you want to go with.

Gibberlings are three little fuzzballs who you control, when they attack one of them is doing one of the attacks while the others either duck or do another emote while the first one does his/hers.

Arisen are the undead humans or Forsakens if you want to put a wow term to it.

Elves have wings that allow them to hover around the field. But still fall when walking off a cliff.

The humans are on both sides as Kanians and Xadaganians.

Orcs were done well in this game, I like how intimidating they look.

Yes this game does look like Wow in some ways, so can't deny that will not be brought up by many people in the zone chat. But if you are by chance looking for a game that's similar to wow then this *might* be your game.

CLASS
Your class starts out with the tutorial as nothing more then just a normal player, till something happens to one of the npc's that draws you into the game. If you for some reason leave the tutorial or get kicked out you will start over, because there is no stopping point in it.

Your class starts with a limited talent tree, that the similar classes will share till you advance in to your races actual class. Let's go with Wardens, who can become Druids, Shamans, and Animist depending on the race you choose. Each starts with a pet and can use fist weapons. You'll eventually morph them into their main class and new talent trees open up.

Each class has a different version of it for the races and factions. With that race's class having a special ability for only them.

LEVELING
This is where the game can fall flat. You will be grinding and doing it a lot. The quests are where all the xp is at, monsters just don't dish out the xp that makes them worthy to spend hours fighting. With some taking longer to kill then you'd expect. Fighting with friends is okay but you both take up shares of the limited xp.

But there is a shining star to this in the form of a Fatigue bar. What a fatigue bar, you mean I get tired? Not at all Timmy who I hate, it's actually double the xp you get from killing those monsters or doing that quest. It's the blue bar that speeds ahead of your regular xp, to show how much fatigue you've gained.

How do you get this? In the Inn's and some other places are goblins, when you go up to a goblin and click the rest menu selection, your fatigue is transformed into experience points.

Yes you don't have to use this right away, but it makes leveling faster if you do take advantage of it when able to.

All-in-all
The graphics are decent to look at. Nothing terrible or blotchy about them, they have an appealing attitude to them for a game that's free based. I can see where you don't want to spend a lot on high def graphics if you are not sure of the game's future. But they are at least attractive enough to gain my attention to play.

The game is very reminiscent of Wow, but any game will be looked at that way anymore. If you're looking for something to fill your wow void then this might be it. You'll get the same player base you'll find on WoW, with the same attitudes. Which would made me quit right away, when I got kicked out of a group as the elite monster died so I didn't get credit for it.

It's not advanced or makes anything stand out for it, just a Free to Play game that hopes to make itself known to the world.