Second Life Review

The graphics are quite good. Very good in fact! You can even customize your graphical settings to your liking. Thing is, unless you have a decent graphics card, Second Life won’t run effectively on your computer. In fact, it will be prone to lags and crashes if you have less than 4 gigabytes of RAM. Otherwise, the game will run just fine for you. In fact, you’ll be able to make the game look a LOT nicer if you have a faster computer, processor, and graphics card.

The amount of stuff you can do on Second Life is only limited by the number of Lindens you have. Naturally, the more Lindens you have, the more stuff you’ll be able to buy. This means, you may potentially be able to own or even rent a house on land if you have enough Lindens to pay the land use fees every month. In fact, if you search around, you may be able to find certain things for free! You can even potentially get a car, a boat, or a plane for no cost at all! But as far as getting really good stuff, you’ll have to pay some Lindens for it, which can usually only be bought with real money. However, you could get lucky and manage to get a few Lindens for free. In addition to this, if you want to actually OWN your own parcel of land and have control over it’s general settings, you’ll have to invest in a monthly premium account.

And finally…There’s the community. Generally, the community SEEMS friendly…At first. But in reality, SL’s community is practically pure crap! -_- No, I’m not kidding! While they often take part in fun things like dancing, role-playing, and other stuff, they tend to become VERY easily offended if you happen to wander into the boundaries of somebody else’s house while they’re home. If this happens, you may find yourself banned from their parcel, even if you’re friendly and say hi to them! And whatever you do, don’t bother complaining about getting banned from somewhere on their forums-These fuckers frown upon such behavior and may ban you from their site for fighting for what you feel is right!! -_- After all, people take this dumb-ass game to damn seriously! And if you don’t like a certain aspect of the game, then you’ll never win an argument about it against the general SL public. People on there have called me a dipshit? Ha! THEY ARE THE DIPSHITS!! Not me. This concludes my review of Second Life…DramaStorm over and out.

Pros…
1: The ability to create a character (Avatar) and have him or her be human, animal, vehicle, or even a robot!
2: Lots and lots of customization options for your avatar.
3: A huge virtual world to explore in! You can run, jump, fly, and of course, meet people. 🙂
4: Despite what some people may think, the game really is newbie friendly and gives you the option to Teleport to one of several newcomer-friendly locations (After you are finished with the game’s brief tutorial).
5: If you’re willing to pay real money or Lindens bought with real money, then you have the ability to buy land or a house on land or even in the sky (A Skybox)!
6: You also have the ability to do just about anything (Fly planes, drive cars, boats, even trains! And also, sky diving, fishing, role-playing, or just casual exploring).
7: You also have the ability to join existing groups, or if you’re feeling particularly creative, you can create your own group and expand it as you see fit.
8: In spite of what some people may think or believe, you actually can get a lot of nice things for free (Even if it’s just a demo of the full version product) if you are willing to search for what you want.
9: Most groups you join have events you can go to (Such as hunts, classes, races, dances and more).
10: In case I didn’t mention this before, the graphics are quite good, although some areas may lag or the graphics may take a while to load. However, as with your avatar, you have tons of customization options for your graphics.

Cons…
1: For those of you who like being able to gain levels, then Second Life is not for you as there are no levels to gain or classes to choose from unless you plan on joining a role playing community.
2: If you’re interested in having your own house on Second Life, be prepared to buy at least a monthly membership. This will cost you 10 dollars a month, but it comes with great rewards, including a free Linden Home, free premium gifts every month or so, exclusive members-only areas, at least 300 Lindens a week for free, and more! If you are not willing to shell out real money for a premium account, be prepared to buy Lindens every month or so and find a good reputable person to rent a house from.
3: Beware, some people or areas are nothing but trouble and you should stay away from such people and locations. There are also some people who may find it rude of you to intrude upon their house and/or land and may eject you from it.
4: In addition to this, there are some locations which have the health heart enabled and if you are attacked in these areas, you can die but fortunately, you will not lose any items and will be sent back to your home location. Furthermore, there may be Vampires and/or Lycans in popular areas who may attempt to send you bite requests. You do not have to accept such requests and there is a free item you can get from the Bloodlines shop which offers you permanent protection from such determined people.
5: Linden Dollars are generally hard to come by unless you are willing to buy them. You can buy 1500 Lindens for under 7 dollars or if you’re lucky, then you may come across a few places where you can earn at least 1 free Linden every so often. Keep your eyes and ears peeled! In addition to this, many high quality items cost Lindens to buy, but if you search the Market Place web site, you can find lots of high quality items for 500 Lindens or less!

I would normally give this game a 10, however, like most massive online games, it has it’s flaws. However, the pros well-outweigh the cons of this game in my opinion. And unlike most of the virtual world games I have encountered (Where movement is limited or where flying is impossible) you can actually fly all across the grid on Second Life, although some areas do not allow flying. In addition to this, there are items you can buy which allow you to run and/or fly much faster than is normally possible.

Overall, this is one game I would recommend to everybody.

Beware of intolerance and downright smug spam by those so-called “community” members that lurk the forums in their ignorance and pride(especially the idiots that have posted over 1,000 post and been around for a year or so). The fact that lindens can be exchanged for real money has caused many tensions on this “mmorpg” and has lead to real-life issues(see “Linden Lab gets sued” articles on the internet). Even worst that people are very tedious and AR (aka abuse report) just about anything on here can get your account banned by Linden Labs just like that without knowing the reason why it was banned in the first place. On mmorpgs, you can fight and hit other players. On Second Life it’s considered “abuse”. Even bumping into an avatar is considered “abuse”. This is as pathetic as it gets.

Other than being able to build items and sell them there’s not much to do on SL. Users are often pre-occupied in their tiny-knit community groups and act as though they cannot speak to others outside of their bubbles. Thinking of buying “property”? Forget it. It cost so much real-life money just to own a slot of land that comes easily with other mmorpg’s that it’s just wasteful and down-right distasteful. The main-region is laggy and glitchy and is assorted with all sorts of various junk from others living upon it’s riggeded pixels. A private island/homestead(that provides any privacy) costs $100 dollars with LL or you can undergo a Estate Owner (who is basically the land owner) and be at the mercy of a total stranger to put your occupation on that they’ll keep their land and not end up booting your stuff.Any items you have placed upon that land is endangered of getting lost or deleted, and that’s items that you have purchased SEPARATELY with your OWN MONEY. Again, NOT good options. Rather spend 10 bucks a month on a mmorgp where fun isn’t considered a crime and actually enjoy it instead of tippy-toeing on bs land-owners and people’s garbage both on the forums and in-world SL, loosing items, and being at the mercy of LL when they ban accounts for petty reasons because of a few smug AR idiots.The arrogance combined with the paranoia of it’s TOS-bonded users both makes Second Life a very unpleasant experience and not one that i would recommend to a new-comer (aka 1 week/day old).

The fact that these idiots are so uptight on here that they call anyone who disturbs them a “griefer”. Griefers are those who down-right hit/smack/cube a person or area. It can range something as petty as walking into another avatar to causing cubes to fall and lagging everyone around the area. A stupid term used by an even stupider community. If you want to have real fun without hindrance, where fun is welcomed and accepted, if you want real achievements than dealing with a butt-hurt community that runs like a retirement home, looks elsewhere. Second Life isn’t worth the money and butt-kissing it really is. And they are very intolerant of teens/child avis on SL too. Just look at any forum topic concerning this and see the results yourself before and after the “merge”.

I use Second Life as a sort of First Person Shooter. If you like the idea of being able to make your own 3D model of a gun, then texture it, and script it to work, then SL is for you. SL combat varies heavily depending on what combat sim you’re in. Because SL allows anyone to make a gun with infinite ammo that shoots exploding cock bullets, most (if not all) combat regions have rules that they heavily enforce, and they will usually ban you if you do not follow them. SL combat is generally 1 hit kill since SL damage only has 1 hitbox, meaning head shots do as much damage as toe shots, so everyone has weapons scripted to do 100% damage. There are also scripted combat systems like DCS or BNWCS that give your avatar hit points, and they work on safe land. Though the use of these systems is fairly limited in the SL combat community. Luckily movement in SL is very exaggerated, your avatar is able to jump about 5 meters in the air, and for those of you who know the technique, SL supports strafe jumping. Also bullets travel significantly slower then in other games (most games use hitscan, not physical projectiles), the maximum velocity allowed in SL is 202 m/s, so it is quite possible to dodge bullets from across the map, also you have to significantly lead your target. SL Combat is very fluid and fast paced, you die in 1 hit so you have to keep moving, otherwise you’re a stationary target.

Several clans (known as military groups) exist, there are to date about 20 of them, I myself am a proud member of the military group: Valor.

Public combat sims like Laiva (Rio Combat), and New Jessie offer fun, free for all combat. And military groups have sims where you (either as a lonewolf, or with friends) attack the defenders who are usually coordinating and fighting as a team. Or you can join a military group yourself and fight other military groups in epic team battles as large as 100 players… (warning having 100 avatars on a sim causes extraordinary amounts of lag) Which brings me to my next point, to participate in SL combat, you have to have a decent computer that is at least able to play modern PC games, in order to have an enjoyable experience. I can play benchmark games like Crysis with full graphics settings, and get 60+ fps (frames per second). Yet I usually get on average 30-45 fps in SL, that number can drop down to 20 fps or less when in intense combat.

SL combat strengths vs. weaknesses

Strengths:
-Strong community
-Unlimited customization
-Content development
-Fluid and dynamic combat
-Fun (that’s what playing games is all about right?)

Weaknesses
-LAG!!!
-Unrealistic in almost every way
-Drama in military groups >.<
-1 hit kill
-Cheaters (quite a few)
-People with ban rights who’ll ban you for killing them (rare, but it’s happened)
-Corrupt military leaders (Just like RL :D)

And of course there are other things to do in Second Life like role playing, clubbing, and yes there’s cybersex(if you’re into that). I just felt it necessary to inform the hardcore FPS gamers out there that SL is not just an internet forum with 3D graphics.

Because there is really no competition to SL I give it a 10/10

As for the REAL review:
Second Life is a big community that allows people to connect to own ages and make new friends. To learn about eachothers culture and it creates a whole between the people. Sure you have bad people but so does the real world. You find everything there ranging from Anime like Pokemon to music and festival events. Again: The only way to find sex related sims is by actually searching for it and you HAVE to be age verified (18+ ) I have alot of fun there and found ALOT of good people I enjoy chatting with. Up to now I only had 1 unpleasant experience and that involved some guy thinking he was better then anyone else.

I have been playing sense 2006. I have never once used a credit card or bought my own money for the game. I earned money by entering contests in game, such as costume contests, or getting jobs, : many job opportunities are available; exotic dancer, escorting,fashion designer, model, builder,reporter( for a SL news station, manager ( apply s to many things).

You do not need money at all to buy things for your avatar: there are many wonderful designers that give away free stuff in their shops, and its easy to locate freebie groups to join that can and will tell you where to get freebies.

second Life, has many things to do for fun, some people enjoy the buissiness part and find it to be fun, but if that snot for you,you can look into roleplay, there are diffrent areas of land set in diffrent themes for these things : such as vampire rp, gor, neko, tinies ( little furry creatures), faeries, elves, dragons.

the exploring possibilities are huge, you can visit cities, its cool because major real life cities are replicated. Forests, gardens, castles.

Important note: Second Life ( Linden Labs) has never once supported pedophiles coming there, they have strict rules about that, and when someone reports something that seems like it may be related to that then, they quickly lock the persons account and investigate it, or that IP ban them from the game.

Do not confuse child roleplay with perverts or bad intentions, most of the child roleplay, where you see child avatars, are just people playing the part of a child because its a care free innocent fun, many of those child avatars have Second Life familes and second life parents that do protect them i even though they are adults). Its never been my thing but i have learned about it.

I can understand why newbies are so confused and want to leave after like5 minutes, and give up. I remember when i first arrived how confused i was, but really compared to many other games, theyre are not a lot of manures and buttons you need to click, and all you need are the arrows on the keybored to walk. I use to spend alot of time help newbies by the dozen everyday. after a couple of weeks they are hooked lol. Second Life is not for losers and nerds with no life you silly people haha. Second life is for people that want to try somehing they possibly couldnt in real life for whatever reason, designing, modeling, whatever, so what there may be some people with bad social skills, if SL can help then , then thats great.

Firstly, the community on the game leaves much to be desired. Mainly because within the first ten minutes, I may have stumbled upon a paedophile. As funny as that sounds, it’s a deadly serious issue that those guys need to take action against.

As for actual gameplay, it’s a little annoying. There was for me, constant lag as it was loading the skins and other 3D models of the area. The odd issue I have is, it’s called second life, yet you can fly? That appears incredibly odd to me.

As for the item creation techniques. This is definitely not user friendly, so if you know nothing about creating 3D Models or Graphics on a computer, you’re kinda stuck to walking around listening to ‘other things’.

if you want to support me in my mission to make a bustling miniature virtual city please follow the link shown here http://mehciteh.myminicity.com/ nothign else is required other than visiting this link. For every visit something will get added to the bustling city thankyou for reading =]

So I would conclude that the way Second Life presents itself, it is impossible to stop the sexual content from growing, but the world can be at least brought into balance by making production dependant on a realistic amount of resources , thereby also opening a whole area for players to work and invest in.

PS: After the review I came to the conclusion that Second Life is going the “same” way like Rapture in Bioshock… Without moral a society cannot really exist.
Oh and the concept of free accounts and paying accounts is for every game the worst invention ever! Either all pay or nobody!)

the people there were very nice and helpful but youcant talk (read type) to them as the game freeze when you try to

Another big minus point is that this game is filled with worlds created by people who have sometimes very sick fantasies about how theyre second life should be like even when you type a simple word like leather you get confronted with sexual explecite things that you dont want

The client has a lot of bugs it lags alot and it crashes most of the time
It got so worse that it completeley crippled my pc 2 times and i had to call someone to fix it for me so

play this game at your own risk if it was me i wouldnt think of it twice to play it

The good:

1: You can register for free and do not need to spend any money if you don”t want to. Avatars can be fully customised. Spend some time with the controls and you can make an excellent-looking character.

2: There are literally tens of thousands of quality items available for free all over SL.

3: You can build and script anything you like if you have the patience for it. This could be hair, shoes, clothes, etc. for your avatar, combat systems, games, furniture and houses… And if people think your creations are good enough they will pay you for them. There are people that earn their first income (anything up to $30,000 per year) in this way.

4: It isn”t a game, it is better than a game. If you know of any other environment in which you can do all the things mentioned above then take part in a full-scale war, ride on the back of a dragon, teach or learn pretty much anything you can think of, go to a club and request your favorite tracks or even stream your own music to anywhere on the grid then let me know.

5: Your own RPG can be created and you have the most massive online environment in which to play it out. In other words you make your own rules and follow them, an idea some people find incredible. Yes, you read right, some people like the rules made for them. Personally I like the freedom SL provides so that people can do anything from program a card game to playing Quidditch 200 feet in the air!

6: The community is generally very friendly and mature and is comprised of the most massive cross section of people I have ever connected with online.

The bad:

1: Some things do cost money and it can take a very long time to create marketable products in order to earn it. I now make a modest $10 – $20 per day selling my products via a store which I rent – more than enough to buy anything I want – but when you first start in game you will probably want things you cannot get for free. In this case their is only one option: plastic. Begging for money is simply not done in SL and although you cannot be banned from the game for it you can be banned from the virtual land or “sim” you”re in at the time. I personally have never had to ask for money but people do ask me, and if I”m in a position to give at the time I usually will. But this one time I was happily creating a new product in a sandbox area and someone asked me for L$10 (about a twentieth of a doller!) so he could upload a texture to finish off his new product and I was just about to transfer it when a builder closeby ran a script that crashed the guy”s client.

2: Obviously it is not a game and has no plot or gameplay as such, and most MMORPG players will consider this a negative point. However, as mentioned above, some extremely fun and sophisticated RPG can be created with a group effort. Rules can be written up and distributed, combat meters and weapons can be created and measures can be implemented to prevent cheating. All this effort and care only makes the final game or roleplay that much better I think. Whether you good people agree is your own business.

3: The stability of the client is not consistant and frequently crashes.

4: The lag is sometimes so extreme you literally cannot move your avatar.

5: The price of owning your own land on which to build, hold events, set up shop, etc. can be extremely high.

6: The graphics are not brilliant, but with the introduction of Windlight technology and faster servers this is due to change.

In conclusion: I think I have been very fair by way of pointing out what is good and bad about the game but of course everyone”s opinion is as valid, assuming of course they have worked out how to register (not mentioning any names – you know who you are stupid) and actually play the game. SL has no equal in its arena, but it IS NOT an RPG per se and is not competition whatsoever in that area. In order to get out of SL much of what it has to offer you have to have patience and a functioning brain, two traits that don”t always appear together in modern homo sapien sapiens.

The score:

10/10

Bellatrix Homewood

anyway its your choice whenever you want to play it or not

Pros:
Nothing wears out and breaks in the game (huge plus) and you do not have to eat to stay alive (another huge plus). Tons of player created content. Lots of great scenery. The game client is very stable and loads quickly, even on older computers.

Cons:
Buying land for yourself can get costly. The interface to control your character is a little slow to react when you need to move quickly and the camera does not always move like you would expect.

This “game” is about “meeting people” online and create your own virtual place. As others have said, it’s a sophisticated chat room.

However if you find yourself in this virtual world for a long time, it probably means that you need to go out and have some space. Take a walk and talk to real friends.

It should have probably been called “Get a life” instead. I’ll be kind, I’ll give it a 2.

I give it a 7 because its fun to visit every now and then, it offers what it promises(a second life), people make real money off this game thru prostitution(yes you can pay real money for in game cyber sex), selling stuff they make, show off art, this game is crazy.. in fact I do believe this is the game where someone became a millionaire by just playing.

First off … its all true! It’s a waste of time! There is no “GAME” … you are not building levels or killing monsters. So if that’s what your looking for then don’t try it hehe

For most players it’s a 3D chat room… that’s really it o.o You can win money in events and go to bars and what not. I never won much that way but you can get by on that : ) and it is easy to get money that way : ) if you hit a lot of them.

But for other plays it’s an art gallery 😀 where you can change everything from making skins for your avatar in photoshop to scripting your own star ships and weapons! Last week I made a AirShip from FFXI ^_^ You can show it to your friends : ) give it away or even sell it 😀 And the best part is!!! You can SELL your money on there web page for real money to other players ^_^ and they don’t tax you for YOUR work! 😀

Now … I never did much selling in the game… I … umm …well … I Got in the game for the Role play : ) I joined a kinda strange D/s group called Gor … As an assassin >.> I made about 120,000 or 150,000 Linden ( game money ) and sold it on there web page for 316$ ^_^ hehehee! I love SL 😛 I had a good strong Role playing game with other people in a 3D world where I could make my own weapons and outfits as an assassin and made a little money on the side!

But that was just me and I got very lucky playing it : ) FOR MOST OF YOU … you will go in and be lost and think its to laggy and to lazy to make your own items and outfits and end up sitting in a strip club trying to cyber with the girl on the table who is really a guy in RL XD haha!

graphics – 0 to 8/ 10 ( its all in how much work has been done in the area )
Sound – 0 to 8 ( some thing …some cool stuff can be done with sound in SL )
Game play 3 ( it’s a shitty game 😛 )
Open world where SkyKnight got to kill lots of people and get paid for it! 10/10 ^_^

–Boislav Kobolowski– I sell crap on second life.
Because all you can make is crap on second life.
Guns are banned, you can’t make them.
Objects that interact with other avatars are also banned.

Sound: there is no sound so i cant really rate it 0/5

Story Line: again i cant rate it because there is no story line.

Over all report:
Its lowsy. it basicly like a virtual chatroom where you can change your looks and stuff which really isnt a bad idea. But this is what cracked me up. You have to buy virtual cloths With REAL money So. dont waist your time and money on this trash can.