Albion Online

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Albion Online Review
You are one of few who made it through the tough weather and terrain to arrive at the island of Albion. Choose your class from long range, melee, and magic.
Deeper into the game, the player will be able to pick a specific line as a shield, support, healer, archer, swordsman, tank, scout, and so much more.
The Game of The Play
Albion Online is a bird-view MMORPG fantasy sandbox game. Featuring a large selection of crafting, combat styles, large selection of mounts, and learning tiers.
For example, the player needs to level up a skill to eventually use learning points to unlock that tier. Some tiers give access to crafting the items, and others give access to equipping them.

Go on quests for the royale kingdom or small quests exploring the lands in parties or alone. Explore the snowy mountains, the deep forests, or the blistering savanna. The deeper you go, the higher-tier resources, but also the higher-tier creatures.
And to gather these higher-tier recourses, the player needs better gathering tools, which require recourses that the player can gather with their current-tier recourse tools.

It will take some leveling up before being available to unlock a new skill tier to be able to both craft and equip the crafted item to go deeper into the island with friends or strangers and see what the island has prepared for your arrival.
Destiny Board
The destiny board is like a skill tree, but instead of new skills, it unlocks new craftable & equippable items.
The standard skills that the player needs to unlock to proceed with the larger variety of weapons, armor, and tools are:
Journeyman Adventurer
Trainee Fighter
Trainee Tracker
Trainee Farmer
Trainee Gatherer
Trainee Craftsman

To level up each category, you’d either have to eliminate creatures with the specified weapon or craft the weapon/tools tier (to level up so you can craft better weapon/tools).
Hot Bar
The hot bar contains of 10 selectable slots, each as follows:
Mounts
The first bar, which by standard is selected by (1), which I changed to (X).
It gives easy access to get on your mount while near it or spawns your mount if despawned. Or entered a new zone while not mounted on it.
Combat
The second, third, and forth slots are fighting abilities. The first two are damage abilities; they have their own special moves and are meant to deal damage to enemies.
The third is a buff ability that buffs up the weapon, for example, the bow. It will shoot three arrows at a faster speed for a short amount of time.
With stronger weapons, it will unlock more selectable abilities, which the player can then choose from.
Spells
Slots five, six, and seven are supporting spells. Each armor piece has different selectable spells, depending on the class and armor tier, the spells can be different.
The headgear is for magical use, the chest piece is for healing, and the boots are for agility. Each armor piece also has a hidden powerup, which grants the player a small perk.
Perks are selected from the available unlocked perks on the armor piece.
Potion & Consumables
Slots eight and nine are for potions and consumables, aka food. These selected items can be equipped onto the bar in the inventory, where they have their own specified slots.
Overcharge
Info the game gives the player:
Pushes your gear magically over its limits at the risk of breaking it. Grants an additional 100 Item Power for 30 minutes, but after the Overcharge ends, there is a 15% chance the gear will break and be permanently destroyed.
Chat
In chat, the player can add and remove filters such as chat global, chat for nearby players, chat for a specific language, or chat say, which makes a talk bubble above the player, allowing them to communicate with other players that come around.
PvPvE
On the island, in towns, there are arenas where two players can battle over items, a price, or simply fame.
Some areas will have PvP active, so any player can be killed or kill another player who is within this terrain area.
It’s called “Yellow Zones," and the game will always warn you before entering the yellow zone.
Visual & Audio
Visuals
The game is based on a bird-view perspective and has a lot of small detailing, for example, trader/crafter huts (which are all different depending on their location/city), shops, terrain, and mounts, along with much more.
The game looks quite good for the quality, 3D animation style, and build-up. And all for being a multiplatform online game that is free.

More into special attacks since there are quite a few selections of a large variety of weapons and fighting styles that bring different power attacks or specialized moves with the equipped weapon.
Animations
During my time playing, I chose to go with a bow, which gave me one locked special move and another where I could choose one out of two specialized moves. In total, I had two specialized moves, one buff and a normal attack.
And each specialized move has its own animation, which is my point here. The vast variety of weapons, which all have their own specialized move animation.
When it comes to how clean or smooth the animations are, the devs did a really good job on this game. All the animations during specialized attacks, running, riding mounts, and a lot more of moving activity run beautifully.
Audio
When the player is in a town/city, they will hear sounds of the shopkeepers chittering n chattering while moving their tools and working. As well as fellow players riding their mounts through the town roads.
Once entered a biome, the background music will kick in. Depending on the biome, the music and sounds can be different.
For example, in a classical forest, the player will hear birds chittering and flying. Hearing the wind blowing through the trees and the wild animals or creatures that bestow within the forest.
The background music doesn’t last very long after entering a town or biome. It lasts a few seconds and then fades away, leaving the background sounds to play.
Overall, both the short music and the sounds are all very good, and they all fit perfectly.

Small note: The game does also have a day and night cycle, switching from day to night, and at night the creatures or animals in the biomes lay down and rest.
Pros and Cons
Pros
Gameplay
Audio
Graphics & Animations
Large variety of weapon selection
Large variety of mount selection
Destiny board system
Cons
Short music
Fighting (On PC)
Destiny board zoom scale
My final little thoughts
Albion is a multiplatform online PvPvE game that brings together mobile players and PC players. Meet new people, group up in a party, and explore the world or dungeons together.
For being a free game, it is very enjoyable and contains a lot of content. After years of looking for players, there is finally a game for both mobile players and PC player, a game that doesn’t take a lot of battery or a game that doesn’t pop up an ad every five minutes.
I highly recommend this game for anyone and their friends to try it out. If you ever get tired of any kind of game and want to try something that is free but also known to be enjoyable with a lot of content to it. Then the search is no longer my friend.
Join the world of Albion and see what it brings. Nothing but good, I’m sure of it.
Rating: 9/10
Welcome to Resort Albion; everyone is just dying to get here!

It's a fun game but it's not for everyone. The game advertises being able to do what you want and building whatever you want. For the most part, that's true but there's some hard truths you have to come to grips with to be able to enjoy this game to the fullest.
- There's PvE content but the game is heavily PvP oriented. There's 8 tiers of gear and zones, Tier 1 being the lowest and Tier 8 being the highest. If you are afraid to lose your gear or you want challenging PvE content, you won't make it past Tier V zones and will quickly get bored with the content. Most of the PvE content also has PvP wrapped into it once you get to a certain point. So if you're trying to be a PvE/Solo guy, you should just stop here and find another game.
- Zones are classified as Blue, Yellow, Red and Black. Blue = no PvP. Yellow = PvP but no loss of gear/inventory when you're knocked down. Red = You die, you lose your stuff but you can see how many hostile players are on the map so you have a chance to escape bad situations. Black = Red zone but you can't see who's on or how many; you are truly going in blind. If you don't wanna PvP or just wanna solo, there's about 2/3s of the game (and literally one entire continent out of the two) that you just can't do anything in. If you are trying to do Red Zone or Black Zone (Tier VI+), you NEED a group (unless you're good). You can join random groups but there's no guarantee they won't screw you over and try to jack you for your stuff. You basically HAVE to join a guild to do the serious stuff in this game and the World Bosses. The strongest guilds control the black zones so be sure to do your research when you're trying to find a guild.
- The game is F2P technically and you are gifted 3 days of Premium when you start. Premium is easiest paid with irl money but if you're industrious enough you can grind out and pay with game currency to fund Premium; similar to how you can fund your WoW subscription with Gold. I actually commend them for this system, because you can actually see what you get for your Premium. Do know you're heavily handicapped without it in every capacity. A lot of people label the game as P2W and it's true to an extent. Using irl money is definitely the easiest way to get what you want; true in pretty much every F2P game.You can make silver to fund it but the catch 22 is the risk/reward factor. Your loot and money making opportunities are far greater in red/black zones than the others. Seasoned players have their own methods for getting past this. Some people only walk around with Tier 4 gear or walk around naked so their losses are minimal when they're (probably gonna get) ganked. Playing in a group and doing group content is the safest way.
- You can minimize the likelihood of other players attacking you but it doesn't mean it won't happen. Some players exist only to ruin your day; attacking in groups of 20+ or sitting in front of entrances to zones and attacking whatever they see on sight. It doesn't matter if they make money from you; some just wanna make you rage. Sometimes entire groups of people will sit in stealth and ambush their prey. It can be really disheartening if you're just trying to farm or have no interest in fighting. It even happens in Yellow Zones where they don't really gain anything from killing you. Accept that you will die from time to time or even often if you do these higher level zones. The general rule of thumb is not to carry more than 10% of your net worth when you're out doing these zones. And not to carry anything you can't afford to lose if you're not in larger groups.
- There's numerous chats for general purposes, help, finding guilds, and more. I've personally found the chat to be pretty weird but nothing crazy. I've had questions answered every time. Seasoned players hate beggars or really simple questions being asked though. A lot of the flaming in chat comes from people not being proactive enough to look up things on their own when there's ample resources. There's no excuse for being a dick to new players, but that's generally why it happens. Take that as you want.
- People claim the mods ban people without warning and for no reason. Mods do not have the ability to ban people. They can only mute you. Banning happens through another team that you won't interact with. The majority of people I've seen complain about being muted on another character are usually pretty ridiculous in chat; so it's not unwarranted. The claims about censorship however, are something I can't comment on because I don't know.
- You have a lot of flexibility with your build path. You can do traditional archtypes like Mage, Warrior, Hunter, Druid, Priest etc or mix elements. There are truly many options that most people will be happy with. Getting to the point where you want can be time consuming. You have to grind out gear and weapon skill kinda like WoW used to be and it can take a long time. This system is called the Destiny Board. Your crafting stuff is also linked to the Destiny Board and requires a grind as well. It's time consuming and at first glance, it's complicated and a little intimidating. It's not though. Oh, mobility in this game is king. You will encounter situations that you cannot win just because of sheer numbers. It doesn't matter what type of character you build, if you don't have the ability to run away, you're gonna have a bad time. Many other reviews say this and it's absolutely true.
Overall, it's a fun, challenging game. This is one game where it REALLY pays to do your homework before you start playing so you have a plan and you know what you're getting into. A lot of people's frustrations with the game come from the forced PvP/group interactions and how time consuming it can be to reach higher content. If you can handle all that, you'll find a fun, flexible game you can play anywhere. There's arena, large scale wars and a myriad of PvP content for those who can bear the potential consequences. It's fun...but definitely not for everyone.

The game is fine, but after spending another five hours straight chopping trees, you'll start questioning your life choices and eventually stop playing the game.

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☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
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☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
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☐ Very good
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☑ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
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☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
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☑ Grandma
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☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
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☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☑ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
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☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
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☑ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☑ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
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☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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Best fishing simulator game.
Best fishing mechanic a game ever got.
Going fishing doesn't only give you fish but also gives you weapons, armor that someone threw out, and seaweeds which is lost of money in addition for you.
People make money by killing people, I make bank by fishing.
People lost money because they got murdered, I keep my fish and my money.
Dont murder, go fishing.

What I wouldn't give for a pure PvE version of this game. I don't mind the PvP but I also don't care to fight in big PvP groups. I love the combat, just not the focus on guild PvP. Not hating that that is what this game is, just personal preference.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☑ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☑ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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