Two main goals were in mind at this time. I turned to the Internet and started to research. Having been in this situation more than once in my gaming life I knew exactly what to do. It all seemed somewhat rather familiar to an EVE Online player. There was little in the way of guidance from within the game. Generally these relate to getting things quicker in both the form of items and the all important experience or fame.īut then the quests ended quite abruptly. Despite Albion Online being free to play there are benefits to having a premium account. But advancement is based on doing things in game, at least in the main.Īfter completing the tutorial quests you were gifted with a donkey and 3 days “Premium time”.
In very simple terms it is comparable to a skill tree. One of the more interesting aspects was the “Destiny Board”. Along the way other game specific elements were also introduced. Follow directions to kill or collect things. There were few surprises here in the main. Hardly unique or compelling stuff but it would do for now. You follow a quest line based about being lost and shipwrecked. Starting QuestsĪs you would expect from any game there is a tutorial of sorts. It should be noted that there were no class selection options during this phase. A few clicks later and my character was created. So I was somewhat pleased to see that my option were quite limited when compared to some games. These are not my favourite things I must confess. The download was pretty quick and soon I was on the character creation screen. So if you die to PvP then all that you carried could be nicked. I should also mention that it is full loss PvP. But unlike other games Albion Online makes a great deal of “you are what you wear”. As you would expect from a fantasy game there are swords, magic and throwing of things. It has been running for a few years now and so I was hoping for a matured game.
So What’s It All About?Īlbion Online is a fantasy based sandbox game created by SBI. So with my interest somewhat piqued I decided to give it a spin to see what all the fuss was about. They were also very keen to tell me about how bad Albion Online players generally were with dealing with meta-game-play. The people I spoke to of it were very keen to point out the sandbox-ness nature of the game. My search did not take too long as some EVE players had already been making good noises about a game. With EVE Online seemingly becoming less sandbox-like of late I thought I would have a poke around for a different sandbox.
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