Iseldiera's Mega Review: Horizons in a Nutshell

Be warned, there is so much info here that you may want to go take a nap, tuck the kids in early (if you have any), and make a coffee run to fill your 1-gallon jug. Everything and more you want to know about Horizons: Empire of Istaria!

Please note: This review was written several weeks before the end of beta. At the end of beta several portions of the review have been updated with drastically different opinions. The old sets of opinions have been preserved for your convenience. However, please keep in mind that they do not reflect the current state of the game

NDA is lifted, if you have any questions or comments regarding this article, please contact me (Iseldiera) so direct all those flames/comments/questions to my aim nick:iseldieva

Due to the incredible length of this article, it has been divided up into several sections, for your convenience:

Introduction

First of all, let me tell you that what you are about to read is a review of Horizons BETA(probably not what you will see at post release) and it is made up of information that is derived purely from my experience. Others may agree and disagree with my points, and this review should absolutely not be used in order to decide if you want to buy this game or not. This is the review of the game's beta version through my eyes. I have previously written another horizons beta review but as of today(3rd december) most of that article is outdated. Since beta is closing tomorrow, i think today is a good day to write this.

I have been playing mmorpg's for 3 years now, I have beta tested about 6 well known titles and played some others.I have been in horizons beta for about 3 months or more now. My system specs are:

AMD Athlon XP 1600 on gigabyte motherboard
768 meg Samsung DDR ram
Windows 2000 Service Pack 4.0
Gainward Geforce4 Ti4200 128meg ddr golden sample
19 inch Dell monitor
Creative Audigy Gamer Sound Card
Cable connection

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