The Beginning Of a Revolution? (Myth of Soma, The (PC))

Member Name: squall55_uk

Product:	Myth of Soma, The (PC)
Date:	28/03/02 (333 review reads)
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Advantages: Good Original Features, Great Plot- and free, Even has a t.v show to follow the game

Disadvantages: Nothing except heafty download

The Myth of Soma, the second of Game Network's (sky digital chanel number 223)Massive Multiplayer Online RPG's (MMORPG). Soma is the big brother to Game Network's first game, The Legend Of Mir. Soma is set in Korea and has an excellently constructed oriental feel to it. Anything can be achieved with this classic style RPG game which by the way if free until it is out of beta testing(public trials).
This game is excellent for people with experience in online rpg's, although it does have a very good place to go in game to ask questions about the game, you can also go to the forums on the website too. This game is easy to use and surprisingly addictive. Some of the things you can do are, joining and forming a guild, making weapons from items, even setting up a shop to sell these weapons. This game is truely immense with detail and things to do, you could organise a guild war or even a royal rumble. All features are completely unseen in a game before and are highly inventive and original. To find tiny criticism in this game, it lacks cut scenes and graphics, but who needs graphics, with a game like this? This is definately the future of games and will keep many people happy until the game they are waiting for is realised- Final Fantasy 11 There is too much to do and thousnds of people can potentialy play at once, as new towns can be built as the game evolves.
Soma is a must game to download as it is great and good to play, even if it is just to get a feel of the MMORPG environment.
The second and last flaw with this game is that it is a rather heafty download at over 300mb, but no problem if you have broadband. If you just simply can't download it, I recomment waiting until it is on general release, where you will be able to get it off a covermount. Overall, try this game, and if you don't like it then put it in the recycle bin and it wouldn't have cost you a penny!

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