Review Submitted By: GarGar
Author Status: Player
Started on STAR WARS: AGE OF ALLIANCES: Approximately July, 2002
Submission Date: Dec 30, 2006
TMC Listing: STAR WARS: AGE OF ALLIANCES
The following review is the opinion of the review's author [GarGar]
and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff.
Star Wars: Age of Alliances, it's a great game. Great mechanics,
great roleplay, great set-up. When it comes to a Star Wars text based
roleplaying game, Age of Alliances is top notch truly. Most of the
players are certainly adequate roleplaying partners to invest some of
your life with.
But...yes, there's always that but...
Favoritism is a problem amongst the staff. Cross the wrong person,
and you'll be watching on glass atop a cracking, iced over lake with
a dragonsnake beneath you.
Story arcs sometimes take longer than they should to be completed,
something that could span the time of two weeks takes two or more
months because the staff gets distracted with their own 'side
projects', namely for their own characters. That's if the story is
even completed because the staff member didn't lose steam after only
a few scenes.
The playerbase isn't as 'aged', 'experienced', and 'tried and
true' like the game boasts to be. They're mostly new to the game,
that is not veteran players of that specific game who have been there
for 1+ years. They're new people that found the game just like
yourself, reading one of these reviews. Some have stayed, some have
gone. I am somewhere in between. The roleplay and the players make the
game at least partially tolerable, while the staff makes the game
quite uncomfortable.
The motto of the staff is: 'This isn't a democracy, it's a
dictatorship'. In my humble opinion, this is hardly the attitude to
have toward a game you create for a collection of other people to come
together and enjoy a fun, thematic adventure away from real life.
Perhaps if the staff wasn't as distracted by dating players in and
out of the game, the true focus of the Star Wars universe could be
grasped once again.
Overall, this is a good game, but it definitely has a lot of wrinkles
which need to be beat out, ironed out, and then beat out some more.
I'd give it a 7/10. Or 1 1/4 thumbs up. Three stars. However you look
at it. Give the game a shot if you're a stalwart gamer and can take
the best of the worst. Otherwise, seek out a new game or genre.
