first of all it took me 512 hours to unlock all of the classes offered so far. It is a realistic battlefield genre world war game. you die a lot all it takes is one to two hits and most of the time you never know where it came from. when you are laying there in the dirt or stalking someone with your iron sights in the distance and you see them fall with that one bullet you lined up just right there is nothing more satisfying. this is a heavy voip game and communication is key with other players in your squad or as a commander to squad leads. the best way to play is slow and almost campy holding a line of sight on defense but when its time to attack and you hear and see the bullets fly by with the suppression visuals and great audio and you drop to the ground and prey you can get into a good spot or they don't have vision on you it can be intense. there are squads for a few different roles and unlike other shooters there can only be 2 snipers per team so most of the game is with iron sights at a mid to close distance with the long shots taking alot of skill and you getting 2 inchs from your monitor trying to see them to take the shot. the tank game play requires a team of two to three one person as a driver the other is a using the gun and a spotter because vision is limited in the tank. there is no air game play but a player can play as a commander and place air strikes and bombing runs and spawn things for team to get a edge over the other team by communicating with all squads. there is artillery that must be manually positioned,loaded and fired without any indication where it landed other then your team telling you where to fire or seeing a team kill tag pop up. there is no hit markers in this game the only way to know if you got the kill is to look at the leader board there is a audio que but only for a head shot. there are a lot of wide open areas with bushes or trees or huge hills to scale with bunker positions with trench warfare. there are classes that can build resource nodes or bunkers or walls but they require you to have a commander air drop you supplies or drive a supply truck to the area without getting sniped or blown up they are also limited on how much they can build. this game can be a little buggy the main menu is very slow to load the servers and sometimes there is some movement bugs also if you find your self unable to deploy for some reason it is due to the text box still being active but hidden. like other shooters this game can have hackers but most people do seem to play fair the worst offender is either visual on all enemy or using artillery to never miss but this is rare. overall game play seems fair and its not always a steam roll and most of the time just at the brink of victory the other team brings it all the way back for the win with pure determination and good spawn placements. i really like this game and if you like shooters and battlefield games i think you will to there is a learning curve but after you get the hang of it then it becomes all about position and aim. the matches can last at max a hour and thirty minutes most people server hop a lot and require you to join a new server and get into a limited que but during the day these problems are not as bad and most people stay in server. the best matches are during the middle of the day and gets worse through the night.

Brighter Shores is a wonderful game it brought me back to the first time i played runescape but i cant just review this game on nostalgia alone so what you are getting into is a new mmo made by the creator of runescape and just like runescape you have to expect that kind of grind there are a lot of features that help that grind a little bit from being to intense but if you are not already a fan of this style of game you wont like it. now how does it differ from there previous mmo well the game is mainly split up into episodes which means that you can only do certain skills within those episodes but dont be fooled they are all connected together as time goes on you will need things from other episodes to make the better items in another. a lot of people are upset about how combat resets every chapter and this is for good reason and andrew has made a post about it on steam that i would take the time to read and understand why this was set up this way. but rest assured you dont lose your levels they are just locked into that chapter. the questing is nice and easy to follow and the story is just as dead pan funny as runescape was. The combat no longer runs on a tick system and it is a very simple system that anyone can understand that could be a good or bad point for some of you but at least you wont have to prayer flick or get fancy with the gear switchs any longer. there are 500 total levels for each skill and a skill cape starts at 50 and levels up from there since the game is split in episodes you can choose where to spend your time once you unlock them all and do the skills you like the most and spend your time in the region you like the most if you so choose. this game is in its early stages so as the game updates there will be more quests things to do player to player trading pvp and more episodes with more skills so it will be worth sticking around to see the growing mmo add content and the content that is here will take you a long time to complete or max out a skill. some of the systems can be confusing at first but you get use to them quickly and thats something that can be fixed in coming updates to make things a bit more clear or streamlined some of the first low level side quests in a area are a absolute must because they unlock key features in the game such as the one in episode 2 but they are behind a level grind. there are high level quests in areas and more will be added but they are there for people really enjoying the episode they like and are rewarded for there grinding efforts and in the future may add more features for complete them like runescape does. Overall its a fun experience and it wont be for everyone it is a time waster game but if you loved runescape you will be right at home and the first two episodes are free so give it a try i also want to say that chapter 3 and 4 for the paid membership adds the ability to make weapons and dye armors and i feel like chapter 3 was my favorite so far.