Since I got broadband aside from downloading various things, I have taken up trying MMORPG's again. The first and most laughable one I tried was a SNES RPG looking game which was peculiar and free. It was clearly written in visual basic, so very quickly stopped playing it.
Next since I now had broadband I decided to download the free 7 day trial for Anarchy Online, it was about 1.2 gig to download but just leaving my pc on overnight and a little during the day was enough to download it in no time.
Anarchy Online was pretty much what I expected from it, a typical MMORPG, with the usual amount of killing stuff and spending your skill points each time you levelled up. I'm sure it is a pretty game however due to my machine being over 2 years old I played it on the lowest settings possible.
I started as a Shade, which is a stealthy backstabbing type character. The Shade is best suited to using daggers or knifes, however not long into the game I decided I wanted to use a Bow, so I eventually got myself one and went around killing things reasonably well.
However, on seeing me using a bow most people took it upon themselves to give me free daggers, and tell me that a Shade shouldn't be using them. It was quite funny really, but gave me all the more reason to use the bow! I did try playing a different character more suited to a Bow but even though they were better with the bow they never felt the same.
Overall its probably one of the better MMORPG's out there, and the skill system is quite flexible although most players don't like breaking the mold. I probably would have continued to play it after my free 7 days but something else came along...