Reviewing MMOs isn’t an easy thing. If you play for weeks and weeks, go through everything the game has to offer and end up with something like “the game is terrible until you reach hour 30,” you’re completely missing the demographic a review is made for – newbie players. If you spend too little time, you run the risk of missing some major feature that may or may not change your mind about the whole thing entirely. It’s a fine balance, and one that – when you have deadlines, multiple jobs, family and general life stuff – is incredibly easy to screw up. A suggestion from Star Trek Online producer Dan Stahl that review scores should be ever changing to represent the constant updates, fixes and expansions released for new games just makes the little reviewer inside me shrivel up and cry.
Blacklight Retribution is one of the very best free-to-play games on the market today and, thanks to it being accessible through Steam, one of the easiest to get a hold of as well. It really is a great game, and the more you play, the more you’ll come to learn just how well polished it is. Playing isn’t always enough though, sometimes you want to win and that isn’t always easy. When you’re against people with more time, less variety of games to choose from and the latest in gaming mouse technology, it can feel like you have no chance in hell at coming out as the victor. If you can’t get a kill streak going and your K/D ratio is looking as down as the global economy (lots of negative numbers, best not to look), take a few seconds to read this Blacklight Retribution guide – it just might improve your game.
Quinn is a reminder of your past, an opportunity to see how things could have been had you made different decisions. Your childhood friend, he’s never really seemed to get beyond his roots and still makes a living as part of a less than honest gang let by Two-Blade Pete. As soon as you’ve recovered after your run in with the Earth Elemental from the tutorial, you’ll be sent a message from Quinn who asks you to come and see him. What could he be after? How is it going to get you into trouble? Can you ever escape your past? The first few single player instances in Guild Wars 2 shows just how far the game pushes to be more than “just” an MMO, and in this week’s Guild Wars 2 Review I’m going to walk you through the ups and down of dealing with Two-Blade Pete and Quinn, and through stepping on the right side of the law.
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