Review Submitted By: Explorer
Author Status: Player
Started on Awakened Worlds: 2006
Submission Date: Nov 4, 2006
TMC Listing: Awakened Worlds
The following review is the opinion of the review's author [Explorer]
and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff.
This is an excellent mud, but has it's cons, as well as it's pros.
Pros:
-The descriptions of most areas seem to be excellent.
-The game feels like a real city - you can buy your own vehicles and
customise them, take public transport, there's always someone
bantering over the radio channel.
-The mud truly does encourage RP, unlike many other muds i've seen
which claim to accept or encourage it.
-It's fun to play. Driving around, fighting, etc, all seem to be
slick.
-It seems to be very true to the Shadowrun RPG upon which it's based.
Cons:
-The description claims that the mud is RP optional. Strictly
speaking it's true, but I've seen numerous people being yelled at
for asking an in-character question on the OOC channel. There are
a lot of RP snobs.
-While the descriptions of places and mobs are great, often items
have a very rudimentary description. That's fine in the case of
something obvious (such as a rifle), but in the case of other
objects it can be a little confusing.
-I've found the creator and many of the players to be quite defensive
when newbies don't understand things. Some of the players are
tremendously supportive, but the actual creator and many of the
regulars seem to respond with: 'You're dumb if you don't' understand
that.'
-While there are many friendly players who'll help out, you're really
going to need to be into the Shadowrun RPG if you ever want to
figure out the ins and outs of combat. It's very true to the
Shadowrun RPG, but gives no stats for weapons, armour, etc. You
need to resort to the Shadowrun rulebooks if you want to know that
sort of information.
Overall: This has actually been one of the best muds I've played. It
escapes from tedious XP grinding, replacing it instead with a clever
quest system. Combat is slick, it's full of entertaining roleplaying
banter. The only downer for me is the attitudes of some of the
players and admin. That'll have to change if they ever want to
achieve the coveted top-slot of Shadowrun muds.
I'd recommend people to at least try it, however. It's addictive.
