EverQuest II Review

GameSpot has posted their review of EverQuest II, giving the MMORPG sequel an overall score of 7.8/10. Their closing paragraph:

EverQuest II is clearly the product of an experienced committee of online RPG players and designers. It addresses many of the issues that arose during the course of the original EverQuest’s lifetime, though, on a feature-for-feature basis, many of these solutions have previously appeared in similar games. As such, this game is yet another marginal step forward for the genre, insofar as it’s in many ways slicker and easier to get into than most of its predecessors. Yet the question of whether it’s worth your while is ultimately going to be a personal one, as this is still a time-consuming game that fundamentally delivers the same sort of thing that the genre has been providing since EverQuest fired it up in 1999. So if you’ve given up on games like this until some sort of revolutionary development, then EverQuest II probably won’t have what it takes to reinvigorate your interest. But if you want a big new fantasy world to explore and find stuff and kill monsters in, ideally in the company of some friends, then EverQuest II has got it.