Toas put it best, he said something along the lines of, "Currently the game plays like a DF style Battlefield" which from the video that's the impression I got - a combat system that's up and running including ship combat. So beta testers I'm sure have a blast logging on and basically having a frag fest with eachother, as if you were playing a round of counter strike.

But the aspects of the game that could/will make it a long lasting classic like UO are I'm guessing still in "final stages". I've heard they've put extra time into tweaking the city destruction/takeover system, hopefully they do it better than Shadowbane. That will make or break the game.

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