For the best review I would like to award Fire Demon.
At first glance Skylords may appear like many other games online. However Skylords puts a whole new spin on massive multiplayer online games (MMOGs). It comprises of many remarkable features, including diplomacy, trading, piracy, espionage, space battles, custom spaceship model designing, round bonuses and clan warfare.
Being an MMOG it supports many thousands of players all at once, working in a real time, three-dimensional environment. In the simplest of terms this means that you could be attacking a system of planets while someone is attacking yours. This makes for a very exciting game play.
Also with all the users that use the forums you can easily make allies and enemies. The forums and private messaging system (PMS) are also useful for diplomacy, setting up trades, coordinated attacks, and an infinite amount of other uses.
Along with the wonderful welcoming, and very helpful, community, the game is completely unique to each user. Someone whose system is spawned close to the battle zone, which has a lot of traffic, will be prone to make a high defence, and find a new system quickly. Whereas someone who feels they are in a relatively safe zone in the universe will concentrate more on attacking and large transports. Everything can be customized, ships, planets, profile information, essentially any game component can have features unique to its creator. The only room for improvement here would be customisable skins for the ships.
A personal note is that I only wanted something to do during the holiday season. Since then I have become very involved in the game. Now I'm one of the top 50 players, in one of the top 10 clans, and have a couple of titles on the scoreboard. In other words I got more than I bargained for.
This is an amazing game with very few faults. However like all games and everything, there are faults. Some bugs have been noted, and if you start off on the wrong track it is sometimes difficult to do well. Even so, this is the game's third month in operation, and it's obviously going strong, people obviously love it, and the staff does a great job of fixing bugs as they are mentioned.
One final and very important note about this game: IT IS FREE! There is no charge for signing up nor for maintaining an account. The only cost, which is optional, is to purchase a higher planet limit, and other upgrades, through credits. Theya€™re about 10 per dollar. However even this isna€™t mandatory for upgrades, you can use the a€?Free Creditsa€¯ feature which allows you to collect credits, gradually, over time.
After three months Skylords has nearly 5000 players and gains more and more every day. It's no wonder why! Skylords is a brilliant and innovative game. It has custom game play unique to each of it's users. Along with wonderful welcoming community to go with it! Next time you want to try an online game, try Skylords, I guarantee you will not be disappointed, I wasn't.
Good job!
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