Vanguard: Saga of Heroes Impressions

GameSpot has kicked up some impressions of their first week with SOE and Sigil Games’ Vanguard: Saga of Heroes.

It didn’t take long to grab a bunch of beginning quests in the starting outpost, so once we had our initial missions in order, we set off into the surrounding landscape, armed with a beginner’s long sword and a dream of world domination. Thankfully, the first quest doesn’t involve killing rats–in fact, there was nary a rat to be seen. Instead, you must collect grass samples, although in doing so, you may awaken the root creatures that live beneath the tufts. Combat should be familiar to anyone who has played a massively multiplayer RPG in the past: Right click on your target to initiate combat, and use the bar at the bottom of the screen to cast spells and exercise other skills. Our bard is a light fighter class, so he had a few melee abilities to choose from, as well as a song to sing that increased melee damage. It didn’t take long to collect the grass and dispatch the foes that stood in our way.