Dungeons & Dragons Online

Dungeons and Dragons Online is a fictional, massively multiplayer online role-playing game denoted as MMORPG. Turbine, Inc. is the company responsible for developing and marketing the Microsoft platform based game. The game started as DDO Stormreach and was later marketed as DDO Eberron Unlimited or Dungeons & Dragons Online Unlimited in the D&D franchise.

Every aspect of Dungeons & Dragon Online such as gameplay mechanics and geography have effectively been ported from conventional tabletop game to the virtual online PC gaming. The setting of the game is in uncharted continent of Xen’drik. Being an action role-playing game, DDO is presented in real-time combat tactics.

Features

DDO is a free online game and one is expected to register in order to play with other members of the community. The home website is sub-divided into five tabs such as content, the game, community, store and play free now. Dungeons and Dragons Online plays like typical action RPG whereas it offers auto-attack feature, it breaks the monotony of a typical combat system. Many reviewers have described the gaming graphics to be magnificent with decent role-playing and fun. The typical D&D scenario is where a group of five or six players explores a dungeon as a team. The dungeon is filled with dragnets, mystery, monsters and myths.

Comparison

For instance, in the game DDO, “Tolero” a fan of DDO hosted an extensive running role-play piece on the unofficial DDO podcast. Turbine has successfully developed other video games such as Asheron’s call and Lord of the rings online. One feature that makes DDO stand out from the crowd is its break from mainstream combat arrangement of auto-attack and above competencies. This concept makes the game easier to play and more favorable to manually attack enemies. Dungeons and Dragons Online offers more unpredictability as compared to other RPG games. There is also a great deal of flexibility built in DDO than other MMORPG games. These not only make the game interesting but fascinating.
At the onset of playing, DDO seems to be a mere “hack and slash” kind of game, which is less intensive as no strong skills are required from the player . This can be misleading since one needs the competency of carefully choosing combat targets and the ability to use spells to disable enemies.

Conclusion

Dungeons and Dragons Online presents great gaming interface with satisfactory graphics. DDO breaks the usual monotony of players getting used to features and geographical presentation of games. There is so much anticipation and suspense created by the game. The feeling of suspense is unbearable once a player goes online to play DDO. Enthusiasts therefore have the  passion of playing repeated times in a bid to complete all the stages presented by the game. Constant updates and modules bring in new twist and features not expected by the gaming community. In return, DDO stays fresh and contemporary.