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Great multiplayer strategy M&M Heroes Kingdoms

Almost everyone loves Heroes of Might and Magic series – if not last, fifth part, then classic – third one. Lately Ubisoft’s made browser multiplayer game Might and Magic: Heroes Kingdoms which is based on Heroes of Might and Magic V and also cannot be confused with the Heroes of Might and Magic series.

Browser Might and Magic
Speaking more specifically, it’s a tabletop-infused OSG that feels more like a concrete strategy game than the browser-based title it is. With the being popular titles like Evony and Travian, it was only a matter of time before some of the larger, better known on the gaming market companies jump into the pool of online browser gaming. Ubisoft has completed this goal just that with Might & Magic: Heroes Kingdoms.

If you’ve enjoyed playing in Heroes series, you’ll be familiar with a larger part of the game’s setting – if not; you are able to play, very helpful tutorial system which guides you through your first steps in M&M world, slowly and without haste revealing the game’s features through various interesting tasks. What’s worth attentions, is that while large part of browser-based strategy multiplayer online games offer sometimes boring tutorials, normally in the form of a large series of tasks dumped into a quest log, Might & Magic: Heroes Kingdoms tries to become more innovative and it incorporates the tutorial through the normal start of playing just like in some free rpg multiplayer online games.

It’s a very good idea to finish the in-game missions, as they will guide you through the various stages of you’re getting more powerful and reach. They’re also an indirect subsidy from the game itself, as they’re clearly set up to grant you a plenty of resources without real effort on your part, making it easier to develop your new cities and thus effecting with simple addiction. For beginners, there are four factions to select from like Necropolis, Haven, Academy and Inferno. I play the Inferno faction so my horde of [...]

World of Battles

World of Battles is a one of best free multiplayer online games, where superior strategy and cunning is the key to success. World of Battles is probably first successful game combining gameplay similar to the Total War series with aesthetics of Magic the Gathering. Set in fantasy realm of never-ending war, it’s definitely good reason why we should download it and play.

What’s inside?
War game, in a fantasy setting where up to 8 armies, each one made up of as many as 16 units (up to 30 soldiers in one unit!), clash in exciting PvP battles. In game we can buy hundreds of detailed units that during the game, and earn experience, gold needed to improve existing units and buy new units to use on the battlefield. Selection of races remind classic free multiplayer online games, so we can choose to play as Amazons, Dark Elves, Barbarians, Beast Folk, Dwarves, Elves, Knights, Orcs or the Undead, each with their own unique units and their own powers and weaknesses.

Each of these units has been designed not only to be powerful during the battle, but with nice detail that makes each one a unique virtual miniature, which remind my classic tabletop games like Warhammer Fantasy Battle. Hopefully Games Workshop will create someday, quality strategy set in Old World, to set new standards of free multiplayer online games genre.

Weapons and units
All in-game miniatures-units, can be easily upgraded with magical weapons and equipment, which can greatly increase unit’s statistics and skills and even change their appearance on the battlefield. Anyway, more than 10 completely various unit types with clear relations between them, we can choose from available units, carefully selecting those that will work best with their chosen tactics while striving to minimize our weak points and discover those of our opponents.

What is really cool, we can form alliances, and World of Battles supports an in game teaming system, which allows us to fight max 4 players in team on the battlefield [...]

Free multiplayer online games

Check out list of great free multiplayer online games!

1. Lord of the rings Online
Lord of the Rings Online is a currently one of the best free multiplayer online games, transformed from pay-to-play, subscription model MMORPG into free multiplayer online game! What makes it different than most games from this genre is that it concentrates a lot on story and lore. There’s a good to mention, that after switching into P2P model, its popularity went much higher. Although free-to-play productions are never totally without fee, but in LotRO there’s an incredible amount of content to have fun with before you will feel to spend some bucks. What’s quite interesting, LotrO looks like some new title, thanks to being regularly patched and it had two expansion packs published. And really large expansion packs.

Different case is, that while plenty MMOs certainly allow you to group up and share rewards and XP, in LotrO it’s one of more interesting features. by rewarding co-operative play through class-based bonuses and additional special moves known as Conjunctions which are only open to players in a Fellowship. The Lord of the Rings Online holds true to the franchise and gives quite linear, story-driven entertainment. There is always large number of tasks to complete, new zones to explore, and deeds to gain.

2. Age of Empires Online
Age of Empires Online is a MMORTS published by Microsoft Studios, which turns the players into sovereign’s ancient civilizations. Well known on the market of strategy games, Microsoft Studios at last makes Age of Empires that its available on free-to-play market, with an updated, fresh designed graphic style and a never changing capital idea not unlike that of its latest free multiplayer online games. The game itself is free to download and play, and additionally there is possibility of gaining different achievements in the free version. This title itself has similar feeling like enjoying some Real Time Strategy game. Graphically, the makeover looks fantastic and can be adjusted to compensate for available PC horsepower. As it stands now, Age of Empires Online [...]

Iron Grip: Marauders

Posted by Mike on November 25th, 2011

Iron Grip: Marauders is a 3D strategic browser game, where players are commanding large group of marauders. In game they are army to invade and capture towns, pillage them from resources and then use these resources in order to recruit better units. Invaded cities are becoming part of player’s territory. It’s totally innovative and entertaining title for all fans of strategy gaming.

It’s game which is played in browser and is based on universe of Iron Grip, which began its existence with total conversion mod to Half Life 2. In Marauders, players are becoming officers of wide army of airship pirates. Fighting system is turn-based and it takes place on single maps. Interface is just like in any common rts game and most players will quickly find out how to operate it properly. It has features which remind such titles as War of Legends, but it has also special tactical combat.

Steal from others and give to… yourself
At the beginning, players are making their character. Customization options are limited mostly to gender and race selection. After creating their avatar, players see main game’s screen and its interface. There isn’t a lot of building space to use during the beginning of game. Players have to make a use of available area and build their first structures – they have enough resources to raise some basic buildings and recruit units. Players need to watch out for population limit – all buildings and units can be built in limited number. There is possible to make limit less restricted by leveling up character. Experience is gained through battles and killing units, so more fights player will win, more experienced he will become.

Initially players have four various types of units, which are effective versus specified enemies. It’s where a lot of strategy is involved, because wrong unit combination may lead to quick defeat – it can’t be taken lightly. Beside creating and developing own base, in Iron Grip players have to attack and capture enemy computer’s bases. After building starting structures, next step is using trained army [...]

Urban Rivals – multiplayer card game

Posted by Mike on November 20th, 2011

Urban Rivals is a multiplayer online trading card game. There players are collecting different cards and trade between themselves in order to become strongest player on the server. Game rules are simple to grasp, but difficult lays in PvP battles, which become gradually harder and harder to win. Cards may be upgraded during the game and in effect player and his decks also become better.

Become my rival
Game is set in Clint City, where enemy clans are fighting against each other in order to gain complete control of it. All playable characters are members of particular clans, but after reaching higher levels players get possibility of making their own Clan and join the race of becoming Master/Mistress of the City. Urban Rivals is not some simple game without storyline – it has one and it’s enough interesting in order to keep most players in front of their displays – particularly if they are fans of American comic books.

Game is very easy to learn even for a TCG. At the beginning of the game, players have to face get knowledge about game mechanics with help of tutorial and charming girl called Kate. Comparing to most trading card games, gameplay is extremely simple and it explaining itself through the game. First battles are very easy and players are having matches with Kate. After some fights, Kate becomes gradually tougher to beat. Beside fights with Kate, player’s first opponent, they are watching video which is in-game manual.

At the beginning of every fight, player gets four cards (characters), twelve hit points and twelve pills, which are action points. Every character has various descriptions, strong and weaker points and belongs to clan. Battle is played in four rounds during which player’s cards are fighting with his opponent’s deck. Its essence, like in most strategy and trading card games is to trick enemy. Only good combination of abilities, pills and bonuses will grant player with victory. Player, who will have larger hit points than his enemy after four rounds, wins the battle. Thanks to feature that all [...]

Drakensang Online – multiplayer rpg game

Posted by Mike on November 14th, 2011

Drakensang Online is a 3D browser mmorpg based on The Dark Eye PC game series and its dark fantasy universe. In this hack’n’slash gaming production, players with quest of purging evil, enter into the dangerous and dark world. They will travel through dungeons, mystical forests and many different dangerous places. In the same time they have to develop their character and raise it on next experience levels.

World of Drakensang brings memories of classic medieval fantasy worlds. Version created by BigPoint is talks about events, which happened in the last Drakensang. Storyline takes place in land of Duria. In order to understand plot, player doesn’t need any background stories. Game mechanics take mostly from classic PC titles like Diablo 2 or Torchlight. In-game main objective includes exploring various dungeons, killing X monsters, and gathering X items. During adventure, player will use various powerful spells, abilities and weapons. Unfortunately, producers into the game included just two classes. These are classic and known for rpg players mage and warrior. They have just different names than their rpg brothers – Dragonknight is a warrior, and Spellweaver is a mage.
Pros:
+Quick paced hack’n’slash fighting system
+Possibility of fighting in Arenas
+No need to download anything
+High quality graphics
Cons:
-Very limited class selection (two)
-Repetitive and gets boring quickly
-Lack of variety in customization options
Diablo in different name?
Older gamers who will start playing in Drakensang Online, will recall some games which became classics in history of PC gaming. Examples include Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights. By a reason of gameplay focuses on mouse-click spam, and has locked isometric camera angle, it’s resembling mostly Diablo. Account and character creation doesn’t bring anything new – Drakansang has only two classes and personalization is very limited. Players can enter into the game after just few minutes. It’s not a huge drawback – taking over consideration game’s slim architecture, it’s quite acceptable.
Storyline is simple and is “getting rid [...]

APB Reloaded

Posted by Mike on November 8th, 2011

APB Reloaded (All Points Bulletin) is free to play 3D mmotps. In this game players enter into modern world of corruption and join fight between Law and Gangs. After becoming part group, player’s goal is to eliminate opposite faction’s members, complete missions using available methods like driving cars and shooting guns.

Similar to other available f2p mmorpg games, APB offers becoming part of two in-game factions – in this case, enforcers and criminals. Players walk around a map, drive cars, travel through the city when on the mission, guns a blazing. There is possibility of entering to buildings, climb ladders, kick down doors, and whatever else is needed in order to obtain goal. If one tries comparing APB to any title in the gaming universe, he will quickly realize that APB is almost like Grand Theft Auto Online but under different name. It’s not a freedom on the level that GTA series gives, but it’s mmo after all.
Pros:
+ Very high visual quality
+ Nowhere to be found personalization options
+ Fast paced, addictive gameplay
+ Large city to explore
+ Diversified ways of completing missions
Cons:
– Extreme number of bugs
– Not enough amount of content
– Too high prices in cash store
– Pretty hard learning curve

Grand Theft…Bulletin
In APB player as part of gang team-ups with other players and start doing various tasks like stealing cars, ride around the town, distribute drugs and many, many other things, which strictly depend on chosen faction. Every mission varies with difficulty and its level depends mainly on opposite side. Usually completing any task is rather tough thing to do, because player has to fight his way through member of other faction. But sometimes criminal or cop may get lucky and complete mission without shooting single bullet into other player.
In order to complete particular mission there are different goals, which are needed to be fulfilled. And by reason of these objectives [...]

Age of Empires Online – great strategy game

Posted by Mike on November 3rd, 2011

Age of Empires Online is a mix of multiplayer online game and rts (real time strategy) released by Microsoft Studios, which puts the player in the role of the head of an ancient civilization. Game effectively mixes its conventional real-time strategy gameplay with massively multiplayer online game style loot and rpg leveling system. Most of gameplay center on questing, upgrading capital city, and exciting PvP.

AoE – Age of Empires!
Aside from playing with your capital city, most of the gameplay can be played with another gamer, which is adding a lot of fun, during PvE. Playing co-op mode it’s one of the most exciting part of the game and I recommend playing with someone, if it’s possible. However, game has some bugs and can be laggy, complicating this very cool feature. We have 4 resource types to collect, 4 ages to advance through, and quests that range from “collect 250 wood” to “save 2 kids while defeating angry neighbor (computer controlled)”.

The gameplay itself will seem familiar to most; it starts with a massive deal of base building, just like in other multiplayer online games. Secondly getting up a balanced economy has been, for as long as Age of Empire subsists, a significant part of its gameplay and Age of Empire Online is similar to previous AoE games – so we need specific % of villagers. Of the beginning of the map, we need very fast around 10-15, and later max 30. Theoretically to create balanced economy we need around 25% villagers/total population. Maps also have random treasure chests filled with resources you’ll be able to use in your capital city after the game, always guarded, and sometimes in very odd places. Even so, it’s worthy to eliminate guards and take goodies with you!

Quests and items
Each quest is giving us an opportunity to complete a variety of tasks, from beating up enemies, to specific NPC in exchange for capital city rewards, resources, gold and Empire points (currency used in [...]

Massive multiplayer online games

Posted by Mike on November 1st, 2011

These days, player can easily find great, fun even addictive massively multiplayer online games. To help with that matter, we would like to show more about exceptional mmo titles of all genres. It’s much easier to find with us game you’ll love…

1. Aika Online

Aika is an exciting, mostly focused on PvP, free mmorpg. Game resembles such massive multiplayer online games as Warhammer Online, Ultima Online or Dark Age of Camelot. Aika has high quality graphics, entertaining gameplay, and it distinguishes itself on the market thanks to unique daughter system, called “Prans”. Overall it’s one of the hottest available online games.

Game offers, tons of content to get busy; hundreds tasks to complete, dangerous monsters, and several beautifully rendered areas. Probably the most noticeable feature, it is the depth of the PvP system that makes this production different from other massively multiplayer online games. Game doesn’t concentrates on grinding and most effective way of leveling up is completing quests – story driven gameplay is the strongest part of this awesome mmorpg. Aika has also very good PvE if we want to have break and play solo. The “Pran system” is main feature of Aika Online, it’s something like pet, but it’s more like little companion or “daughter”. It allows changing appearance; Prans even have their own equipment, which gives us ability to equip some fantastic and great looking costumes to fully customize our little friend.

While Aika may not be one of most inventive free massive multiplayer online games on the market, with plenty ideas familiar to veterans, it surely stands a lot from the crowd. It’s a refreshing change from the usual mindless experience grind, which is often main feature used in online games. The game has a charm about it, whether it’s making an individual feel valuable even in the midst of a fight versus hundreds of players, or creating social aspects an important element of its PvP system. Overall Aika Online is game you should definitely play!

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Quake 3 and Quake live – mmo fps?

Posted by Mike on October 30th, 2011

Quake Live is exceptional shooter for our web browser and fast-paced multiplayer online game for adrenaline lovers. Rockets, rail guns, machine guns, frags, multi kills etc – Quake Live is free shooter worth a while.

If nobody knows what Quake Live or Quake III is, let me explain – the main difference is that in Quake Live we can play with other players using just typical browser. What you need to do in order to play is just sign-up on quakelive.com, download some addons to your browser, and wait for updates download. After that, you can play!

Never-ending tournament
Before real game, we pass the training, which qualifies us to one of skill groups; it varies from tutorials which you may find in some online multiplayer games. If you don’t feel like playing with the best don’t try to be too good. During the training I didn’t died even once and I had to fight with pure masters later. Every match which game found for me was battle for survival, where every millisecond and every jump makes a difference.

We all love playing in free online multiplayer games, it’s true. But large part of those who enjoy developing their character in role play titles, like playing in shooting games similar to Unreal Tournament series or Call of Duty.

Game is almost the same like Quake III right? Certainly when it comes to talk about game; we have good old, Duel (1v1), Team Death Match (TDM), Free For All (FFA), Clan Arena (CA), Capture The Flag (CTF) etc. but there are new, just fantastic designed maps and some game mechanics changes. Game physics has been changed, making air-control more possible. Its absence was annoying to part of players who instead of clear Quake III was choosing various mods. Also creators modified balance of weapons, placement of power-ups and items on maps, which forced to search completely new schemes instead of multiplying old ones. But it’s true, that at the beginning Q3 Arena gamers had just [...]

Free online multiplayer games no download needed

Posted by Mike on October 28th, 2011

Looking for hot free online multiplayer games no download required? Free to play multiplayer games are extremely popular. Which one is hottest? Which one has top quality graphics? Which one has the biggest community? Maybe there is a game combining all these elements?! Let’s find out!

1. Battlestar Galactica Online

Battlestar Galactica Online is a fresh sci-fi online multiplayer game based on known Battlestar Galactica franchise. We can play as Humans or Cylon race, and discover large, high-quality crafted in-game world. Quality, starships, lasers, exceptional PvP and more! Battlestar Galactica Online using the revolutionary Unity engine, showing us the future of multiplayer online games genre. What about starships? There are 3 classes of starships in the game – heavy, medium, light – and each faction has 3 ships in each weight class (9 starships total). Each is unique, has own strengths and weaknesses and of course, appearance.

The most spectacular thing in Battlestar Galactica Online is the space combat. Unity engine is showing very advanced capabilities, but game is something far more than just a graphic engine. PvP is very entertaining and overall it’s very hard to get enough of it. While you can play solo, you can find yourself getting crushed again and again by opponent gamers who are working together as a team.

Battlestar Galactica Online is a fantastic starship combat game, with solid foundation for even more amusing game. In my opinion it’s one of the best free to play game I saw lately. We can explore various worlds, and unlock new weapons, ships, and parts as they progress. Battlestar Galactica Online game is best when played multiplayer. It’s definitely MUST – PLAY! Everyone who loves free online multiplayer games no download should check out Battlestar Galactica Online.

2. Monstermind

Bored with endless variations in FarmVille? Maybe CityVille isn’t entertaining enough? When you are eat by boredom, check out Monstermind. Monstermind it’s not just another facebook game, its far more than that. [...]