Play.tm is featuring a review of Lineage II: The Chaotic Throne - The Kamael. Editors have assigned it a mediocre 68% and say:

On the whole Lineage 2 is the type of game where you get back exactly what you put into it. It's not really geared towards casual players as it is not exactly welcoming. It's a slow and sometimes arduous task to reach level 80 but once achieved, it's a huge thing to accomplish. For a casual player I couldn't quite recommend it. They would be better off going to one of the more newbie-friendly MMOs such as World of Warcraft or Everquest 2 where they are guided gently into the realms of MMORPGs and are able to choose if they want to face PvP combat or not. However, if you are a hardened MMORPG player of days gone by, and you miss the days when a level up sound effect was really worth something and you want the camaraderie of requiring a group of people you have never met before in-game just to gain a bit of experience, then this might well be worth a punt. It manages to be strangely compelling yet equally punishing, not least of all because of some fairly weird bugs that can show up despite so many updates that should have fixed long ago. I wouldn't say that I was hooked on it but I can see why others may be, if you fancy a change from the more common MMOs, I'd probably recommend Eve: Online first but if you're adamant on a more medieval style setting, give this a try. Just don't expect to hit level 80 this year, at least not without a lot of missed sleep.

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