Games Currently Playing - Vindictus

I have just finished playing Fallout: New Vegas including the DLC Honest Hearts. I will do a review on this later. The game I am now currently playing is a Free 2 Play MMORPG game called Vindictus.

Vindictus is a button mashing hack n' slash type of game. By this I mean, your controls (if you use your mouse like I do) are left click for normal attack, and right click for smash attack, and you just use a combination of the attack and smashes to create skill moves.

I had actually started playing this game several months ago, though I had lost interest in the game with the little features it had at the time. The game developers have recently just updated the game to have a new character, quests, skills, and more. This caught my attention and I am now interested and playing again for the time being.




Here is are pictures of the currently playable characters. I have all characters created, but I am focusing on leveling only 1 character at the moment, a Fiona character. The level cap in this game has been raised to 70 from level 44 pre-patch. The leveling in this game is not complicated at all there are quests that give experience, the higher level you get the harder the quests get, but the more experience you get. I am currently more than halfway to the level cap and so far what I have seen with my Fiona character has kept my interest. Fiona is a defensive character wielding a single handed weapon (long sword or long hammer) and a shield. I fancy the hammer, it is slower than the sword, but it has higher damage, another reason I like the hammer is what I've seen it has a wider range of attack being able to hit enemies in nearly 360° with a smash attack. With good timing all damage can be negated on Fiona making her a very vital character in boss battles. I have no real opinion of the other characters because I have not played them enough as of yet to say anything.

This game is based all around team work,so Fiona alone will not be as successful as a party of heroes. Normal quests can have up to 4 players total (including yourself). The big boss bottles are raid battles with up to 8 players.

One of my favorite things in this game is the customization of armor and your character itself. With the new dye ampule feature added to the game there are characters with many bright, vibrant, and unique sets of armor. This makes the game cosmetically more fun to play.

Problems with this game, at the moment the server has been having issues, perhaps with the new content has brought a lot of people in, but there has been a lot of lag which is disappointing.

Rating:

Graphics: 8.5/10

Gameplay: 8/10

Storyline: 5/10

Server: 3/10 until they update the server and have less lag

Overall: 8/10

[Edit] Server is all better! 10/10 no lag unless you get in a game with a person who should not be hosting the party. If that's the case just drop the party and go make your own or join a different party.