Rift Review

One of the newest mmorpg games. I can tell you its pretty good, it is a unique game, thigs are really changed in game. Many people say that every mmorpg game is made by wow, its copy of wow, but i dont think so for this game. Mmorpg game is a mmorpg game there is nothing you can change on it, exept the gameplay. People are leveling up, getting cool things and start fighting agains the big bosses. In this game, you dont need to be lvl 60 to get fun, you are having it all the time. While you are leveling, suddenly you will get pings and notes that people need your help. A portal has opened and creatures have been spawned, you need to kill them as fast as you can, so it doesnt spread. If u dont help your teammates, the creatures will spread all over the map, they will take the valley, then they will take a village, next a town, and then they will take the whole map, so be a man and help you teammates in truble. Dont let them take over the map. It will get hard after that. Rift is not a free game. You need to pay to play it. I dont know the real cost but i think its around 15 dolars or euros, i dont know exactly. When u start playing you need to choos who you want to be. Rift has many different player races that players can choose from. Each race has its own characteristics, abilities, and even background stories. Races also belong to one of the two factions, guardian or defiant. Each race also has its own distinct advantages and disadvantages. In guardians there are dwarves, high elves, mathosian. In defiant there are bahmi, eth, kelari. There are many classes in rift, i will tell you cuple of them archon, assassin, bard, beast master, blade dancer, cabalis, champion, chloromancer, defiler, dominator, druid, harbinger, inquisitor, justicar, marksman, necromancer nightblade, paladin. These are some of them there are 36 clases in this game, there is no way you cant choose what you want. Every of these clases is in a category. There are 3 categoris a warior, mage and a cleric. A warior is someone who will go in the first lines of defense and attack, they are receiving the demage that is dealt by the creatures. Mage stands behind the warior and deals as much as possible damage to the creature, the clearinc is keeping them alive, by healing them. So this is my review of this game, its much more funnyer and better if u play it with friends. I hope this game will get free to play, i really like it but, i dont have money to play it. The game is a average requirement game. It doesnt require a lot of space too. Since this game got out it has a lot of upadates and cool stuff are coming too. I hope they can make a pirate server so we can play too.

thumbs down for this game.

Trion, so far has a pretty good record on fixing major bugs, but they tend to stick the minor bugs on the back burner for a bit to long. I participated in all the BETAS that came out, and yeah, there where Bugs here and their, but them BETAS where the cleanest that I had ever seen come off the assembly line. In all other BETAS from other games I participated in.

Rift knocks the grindyness out of the park. As all other MMORPG’S the game is get max level and work on gear upgrades for instances, for Epic gear. Sounds like a grind to you gamers? Well, the “uniqueness” of the “grind,” Rift gives players the ability, to jump in group quests at any given time, with a click of the mouse you can group with others, on the fly. Easy Peasy.

Rift has PVE, World PvP, and Battlegrounds, and like WoW, PvP gear. Another “uniqueness” is the abilty of training in several different skill types, called soul Building. What this does is give any player the freedom of making a character build that fits their play style. NO MORE COOKIE CUTTER BUILDS! You can fit all roles on 1 character. Roles are: Tank, DPS(Damage Per Second) Heal, and AoE(Area of Effect) also, players can dip into the marksmen tree for some Range DPS if they want to. You also have the abilty to change any role you want, by going to your trainer specific roles you want to learn. The trainer will give you the ability to summon, a role Spirt. (IE a Bladedancer Spirit, and many more choices) that you must deffeat to collect the Bladedancer soul stone, which then allows you to prepare your charcter to start training in the Bladedancer Soul Tree. Souls can be swaped out as often as you like.

The main objective in Rift is, what players call “Rifting.” Whats Rifting, you ask? Trion, allows these, so called “Rifts” to open up at any giving time, all over Telara. You could be questing along minding your own business, then BOOM!, a rift opens right on top of you with out warning.

A rift is a crack in the barrier protecting Telara, allowing one outer plane to intrude on the world, IE plane of, death, life, fire, air, water, and earth. When a rift occurs the players must reseal it by defeating the monsters that invade through it, in a couple of rounds. These rifts hold a boss mob, at the last round, defeat the boss, to seal the rift. Anyone near the rift is strongly encouraged to help seal it before Telara gets over run buy the creatures from whatever elemental plane they came from.

Trion host lots, and lots of events in Rift, Updates happen constanly, and Trion Worlds encoureages all players to post feed back in game at any given time, to help better the game for all of us gamers. This can be done with a click of the mouse while in game, playing, and you are able to post your pros, and cons, without interuppting your play time.

I strongly recomend rift to anyone. It is fun, and nonstop action happens all the time, do to Rifts opening at any time. Also on ocassion you might be able to catch opposite Faction NPC’s raceing through your faction zones, to temp to take over a wardstone belonging to your faction, and your duty is if you are not closeing Rifts, and doing general quests, you must protect your faction wardstone, for some PvP action.

Also just a mental note for you gamers out their. If you are closing a Rift that opened in some zones, you have a chance on bumping into other players of opposing Faction, closeing that same Rift you are, for some PVP action, so be on your guard when you hit some of these zones while playing. Especialy zones that have Neutral towns, and outpost in them. Some neutral towns you are not safe, because, although it is considered a neutral town, it is sepperated with NPC’s of opposing faction, and if you strid to closely some guards will attack you on sight, if you are flagged or not.

I give it a 9 out of 10, because to be honest, no MMORPG is a perfect 10. Rift is a Action packed, less grindy game then most, I absolutely recomend it if you gamers are looking for that special P2P MMORPG.

Nice Work Trion!

1.more professions
2. rogues can strike from behind with swords and maces
3. rifts kill grinding
4. mounts are available early
5. customization is a breeze with souls and roles.

I played WoW for many many years and i can say this is not a wow copy, Ofcourse it has same feature as its a mmorpg but with the unique random RIFTs opening, Soon a ingame world invasion (30 march), Public group joining, I think its a mix between WoW and Warhammer and totaly new ideas.

They had issues with your account being hacked at the start due a leak, But this is now solved on a better way then wow did it. They actauly made a coin-lock system wich was free and works 100%. NOBODY can login your account without having acces to your e-mail adress and you only have to verify ones. I think this is a mayor unique idea to solve the world wide gold seller hackers.

Overall, I baught this game for myself, My 3 bros and 2 of my friends and everyone of the is enjoying it. I think its safe to say this is a game worth the money.

PS: They actauly do listen to suggestions that players make.
~ 10 out of 10 points from me!

Now, I understand there is a degree of idea sharing and borrowing that goes on, but this is a flat out rip off!

It was very interesting starting out being able to go straight to the action. There was alot around me going on… From scientists working on certain structures to scared guards scouring about. I quickly picked up the first few quests which might I add felt like the basic “Go talk to this person” which lead onto another” Talk to this person outside of the base” but non the less felt immersive at the same time, so it didn’t bother me much. I quickly got passed these quests, which one of them lets you familiarize yourself with your other classes(for the advance class system)and lets you get use to your controls. As soon as I reached the outside I noticed a great battle was going on as it seemed we were under heavy stress, I quickly decided to go ahead and enter the battle without logging any quests on the outside because I was so excited to get into the action to try out the combat system. It was very similar to other MMO’s but also felt like it needed abit of polishing. None the less though it felt fresh as well. I quickly got my fill of killing and logged my quests and went on my way to complete them.

Later on in the journey I was beginning to notice how immersive the world felt.. even though it was a themepark based MMO it was VERY fun and didn’t feel anything like your regular theme park based MMOS. The landscapes were huge and the level of detail was vastly amazing. I finally made it toward the end of the introduction stage of the game where you end up seeing an amazing battle of a Demonic figure taking every last of the Defiants forces at the top of the hill where the portal to the past lays. I quickly entered the rift portal after the fight.

I’m not going to say anymore because I don’t want to spoil it for some people who want to save the best. So I won’t
The graphics were very impressive, the textures were sharp playing at 1080p on max settings. The sound quality was very good as well. The only major complaint I have is the scaling on the UI, which im sure it will be fixed soon enough.

All in all I had a great time playing beta 1 and look forward to the future betas. It was definitely a great time.

For me it is a solid 8 game was good and I would give it a higher score but without expiriencing PvP which is probably the most important part of the game I can’t give it more than 8, but I have to say that I think this game has a pretty good PvP system.

The interactive encounter system, along with the progressing instances seems like it’ll provide a long time of game-play, only to find out that everything you did, can be done again with renewed vigour!

I want to play this game, because I have yet to find my MMORPG, one that I enjoy, and feel like I can actually play, without getting bored. And this seems like the gem I’ve been waiting on, the customization, and constant change seems like key features I’ll love dawdling with.

a friend of mine were lucky enough to get a event key for the first beta event, and i’ve borrowed his account one NIGTH to level a cleric to lvl 10.
game feels AWSOME!

this is the next big ting!

Rift is a new generation MMORPG featuring some really new content (along with the “good” standards of its genre), meant to give a gust of fresh air to the saturated, yet really popular genre of the “Theme Park MMORPGs”. We will see “classical” contents (such as great variety of quests, mobs, dungeons and a lot of breathtaking visuals and suggestive pieces of fantasy setting) together with tasty innovations, whose flavor is going to keep us stuck to the screen for a very long time…

Rift has amazing graphics, inspiring music and a deatailed lore and story to help player’s immersion in the world of Telara.

Telara is a contended world, located in a particular nexus between six dimensional planes, whose dwellers (fomented by the Blood Storm, the evil dragon gods) are eager to invade and ravage it; two factions (each including three races), with different looks and ways of life, but sharing the same purpose of saving Telara from its planar doom, rise againist the invasions: the Guardians and the Defiant.
The Guardians (including the Mathosians, the Dwarves and the High Elves) stand fiercely as a wall between invading forces and the world: bound to their faith in the Vigil, the good gods of Telara, they defend the land by the means of honor, valor and bravery. The Defiants (including the Bahmi, the Eth and the Kelari) blame the gods and their indifference for the ongoing disaster and plan to save the world on their own, relying on magics and technology they have created and developed by themselves.

The first, most important innovation brought by Rift is the dynamic world: while rifts open in the skies of Telara, spitting out the ruthless minions of the evil Blood Storm, landscape changes around them, transforming a peace of world in an outpost of the invading plane, sprawling with vicious beasts and enemies. If left unattended, this invasion spreads and can pose a solid threat to the “ordinary life” of an adventuring character, by raiding towns, occupying questing zones and so on. To keep their territory, players have to fight. The dynamic world makes you game experience an unpredictable, ever changing one, cause there is no “already exploited” or “safe” spot in the world, everywhere could become a battlefield. Expanding rifts may also meet each other, with overlapping rifts seeing a ferocious clash between the invading forces, in which players may participate or just stand watching the carnage (as long it is safe for them).

Another significant innovation the game is bringing up is tha “Ascended Class” system: player avatars incarnate the force and the powers of the ancient heroes of Telara. By choosing one “calling” from the four classic fantasy archetypes of Warrior, Rogue, Mage and Cleric, we can customize our hero with skills and capabilities taken from up to three specialized professions (called “souls”), mixing their “soul” trees (i.e. skill trees similar to the ones we already saw in other games) in order to create most effective combinations, or just the ones we feel nearest to our playing style.

Last but not least, as far as we know, it looks like system requirements to enjoy all these wonders won’t be unreachable and that the game client has reached a consistent degree of stability (which we know to be a really important factor, by launch time, in determining the future of a MMO).

I am giving just a “hype” evaluation, cause I couldn’ try the actual content, but basing on the amazingly promising look of this game I give a “9”. This is not “10” just because it looks like some diversifying contents which greatly increase, in my opinion, the immersion and longevity of a MMO (such as housing, cooking, fishing and so on) are not going to be present by now or have been lightly developed (maybe in the foresight of future updates) and i feel game could be perfectly completed by such things. Anyway I can’t wait to get myself in the world of Telara to have a fist-eye look of all this and get a clearer sight of this apparently awesome new game. Definitely the hottest beta of the moment.

At the screen for the personalization of my character, I discovered a realm of possibilities I hadn”t seen in an mmo since Perfect World, and while it takes a little time to get a feel of each options, it is one more way to personalize your character to avoid the clone effect. (A nice mention for the name generator, great for a quicker enter in the game and less weird names on RP servers)

The system of classes, or “Souls” offers to everyone the ability to personnalize their character in many ways, more than any offered by other games I have tried yet. While not completly balanced yet, every soul can be used with great synergy with the others provided for their “Calling” (Warrior, Rogue, Cleric or Mage). A lot of choice has been given to the players to make their character and from what I was able to try, they are each unique, with a specific way to play them. And so did the option of “roles” which allows you to switch between two, for now, specialisations at the press of a button and in a 2 second casts. Giving players the ability to switch between DPS or heal, PvE or PvP and a whole other list of things to have more possibilities of gameplay

The first impression I got when I awoke in the last Defiant bastion was an oppressive feeling as they were besieged by the forces of Regulos and the Guardians. It was quite an oppressive feeling as your were flung from small camp to the next, as if constently pressed to reach the end. While it was planned and executed, a dark spot appears quickly if you pay attention to the quests. While they try to give you a feel that you are the only chance to save the Defiants, nay the World!, well there are over a dozen other guys like you running around. It”s not a big problem at first but it”s apparent.

And sadly it gets more apparent as you progress beyond the starting zone. Knowing that it was the launch of the closed beta I don”t hold that point too hard, but starting the game with more than hundreds of players cramed in the same zone and forced to do the same quests at the same spots might land a hard blow during the real launch of the game. Thankfully, while the respawn rates were slow at first, the dev quickly made a patch to fix that so that it became easier to run through that spot and continue on.

In that zone also appears the problems I mentioned earlier but at least it was worked out in a good way. An exemple would be a quest that asks you to listen to a speech recorded in an item(passing over the speech being in the lines of “Only you can save us!” while half a dozen guys like you listen to it), if you happen to take the quests while someone else is doing it, you just need to be at the right position to listen and the quest objective is fulfilled properly. And things like that still appear in later quests, which shows a good attention given to the quest system that reassure me, and probably a lot of player. There isn”t much more to say on the quests sadly, they are pretty common to what you”d expect from an MMO(with some exceptions), but since it was only up to level 20 and the first zone, we can still hope that more elaborate quests will be available later on.

Same thing for the mobs, while having nice skins and unique appearances, they are also pretty much ok. Though I will give a special mention to the water elemental which, when hit, sprays water in the air instead of blood, and causes a nice rainbow. I applaud such a nice addition.

Now, let me get onto the main subject, the game”s title, the Rifts. Those who have played Warhammer Online will have a sense of déjà-vu as they ressemble the Public quests from that game, a group or a single player joins in toward a tear, they open it and fight a fixed number of ennemies, having to vainquish a certain number before they can get to the next stage and finaly reach the boss, and after that the bonus stage. And depending on your participation and the damages you have inflicted, you get a big or a small reward. But from my own, personnal experience of Warhammer Online, the similarities pretty much stops there. The Rifts are “alive” while a tear stays in that form for a long time, it can open into a rift by itself if no one takes care of it. If a rift is left without attention for too long, more and more monsters from that plane will start pourring into the world and will form into groups that will start and invasion. If they are not stopped, they will rush toward a settlement (or quest hub if you prefer) where they will start attacking the NPCs and more than likely, end up killing them. At that point, they will afix a new base for themselves, and camp there for any unwarry player wandering nearby. And you will probably need a high level character or a group to dislodge them from there at that point. During a rift battle you can also find some bonuses on the floor of the newly opened rift. For an example, during the first beta we had a lot of Rifts from the plane of Death that opened, and on the floor of these death rifts, players could find tombstones, which, if used, summoned a secondary pet that would help them fight the mobs for a minute. And all other sorts of buffs. (though I only tested the death rifts in depths as the others didn”t really appear during the first beta) All of that creates a feeling of danger when you leave a rift open too long in a starting zone, even if the invasions can be vanquished kind of easily, they still keep on coming until the rift they originate from is closed and you can quickly get overwhelmed if you are alone. And if no one keeps them in check, you will soon find yourselves with creatures holding the quests hubs, forcing you to look for groups if you want to continue questing, forcing you to be invested in the world.

Now, onto some bad points of the game. I gave some among my previous paragraphs but there is other things to add really, the textures. It is still a beta so there is hope that it will be worked more, but while some of them are well worked and looks really great, some others seems rushed and half done. The quest progression felt pretty linear, when done in one hub, they”d send you to the next and so on untill you”re done and you go to the next, and again I have to mention the quest being a bit boring and classic, the usual kill x mobs, collect y items (at least the drop rate of quest items was good…). They don”t seem much for now, but if they are not worked on, they may be the drops that makes many players give up on a game they have played for years before, under another name.

Voila, Sorry to have taken a lot of your time, I hope I did not bore you with such a long review but I haven”t even gone into explaining some of the others things Rift offers its players. Rift is already a good game and if this beta helps it getting better, I am pretty sure it can be a strong contender with Star Wars: The Old Galaxy, and it might finaly bring World of Warcraft down from its throne and bring us a new age of games.