Last Chaos
(153 votes, average: 3.18 / 5)
Loading ...Sticking closely to the standard MMORPG formula Last Chaos does little in the way of gameplay innovation, but more than makes up for it with it’s amazing graphics and character animations. Players begun the game trapped in a haunted dungeon, and must fight their way out through the hordes of monsters to begin playing, learning how to fight as they do.
Publisher: Aeria Games
Playerbase: High
Graphics: High Quality
Type: MMORPG
EXP Rate: Low
PvP: Yes
Filesize: 428MB
Pros: +Great character animations. +Great forum and GM support. +Pets and Mounts. +Good crafting system
Cons: -Repetitive quests. -Slow combat. -PvP requires level 15 access. -Very similar to other MMORPG games. -Unable to choose gender.
Last Chaos Overview
While the class options available in Last Chaos aren’t anything new, the advanced graphics engine brings them to life better then ever before. Players can choose between Titan, Knight, Sorcerer, Mage, Rogue and Healer before beginning to play the game, but are sadly locked to a single gender. The model animations look equally fantastic, but are let down by the hugely limited character customization options, giving players little sense of individuality.
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Last Chaos Review
By Cody ‘Neramaar’ Hargreaves
The cloning issue of the MMORPG genre is one known far and wide across the globe. Chances are that if you had played an MMORPG a few years ago, then there’s a bigger and better version of the same game available right now, and it’s probably free to play too. Last Chaos is a prime example of that cycle, acting as yet another generic recreation of another MMORPG. In this case, the original was Lineage 2.
LOOKIN’ FINE
The only bright side to this whole cloning issue lies in the advancement of certain features. While the look and feel of the world remains the same, new features are added, graphics are improved, and the formula is enhanced. Last Chaos has definitely done well in this regard, and in several different ways too. The Graphics are easily the most noticeable, so I’m going to start there. Using an advanced graphics engine Last Chaos is capable of producing magnificent lighting visual effects and as such the textures, buildings and models all superb. More importantly though is the model and character animation, whereby the characters move both fluently and realistically at even the worst of times.
One such example that instantly comes to mind are the animations of the Rogue class, where even a simple attack will see her jumping in the air and stabbing the enemy just as you would expect a highly trained assassin to do. The E.R.A.S system in Last Chaos, allowing players to attack not only a single target but also other targets caught in the swing/blast radius, adds much to this effect, giving the combat in Last Chaos a very realistic feel throughout.
OFF TO A GOOD START
The beginning of Last Chaos, more appropriately the tutorial, is another highlight of the game in my eyes as players are neither placed in the middle of a giant town wondering where to go nor forced to complete a mundane tutorial. Instead they are required to complete a small mission that takes place in a dungeon below the city. To complete the mission, players must eliminate all the monsters and escape with their lives intact. It’s nothing major, but it’s seldom seen in the genre, and although it acts as a tutorial it is neither boring nor mundane for any part.
Unfortunately, that is just about where the innovation of Last Chaos ends, and the repetitive grind based gameplay begins. While some of the included features such as the pet system allowing players to ‘grow’ either a Horse or a Dragon are nice, it adds little to the overall experience, and is another shameless rip-off of a feature found in Lineage 2. The quest system has been tweaked to allow players to complete quests without first having to accept them, but this draws largely from the immersion in my opinion, and again, adds little to the experience.
OXYMORONS CAN BE FUN
Some other features present in Last Chaos however are quite remarkable, once such feature being the Solo Instanced Dungeons. Like many other MMORPGs there are instanced dungeon encounters designed to allow players to venture and explore new terrain, kill new and exciting bosses, and earn new equipment in the process. However, these usually require groups of up to six players to complete, and can be hard to finish. In Last Chaos many of these dungeons have been designed for a single player to complete alone, and while the concept of a single player MMO experience is something of an oxymoron, in application it works quite well.
The other impressive addition I found in Last Chaos was its unique skill advancement system that will see players not only leveling their characters, but also their weapons and individual skills too. While this system does promote some fairly heavy grinding, it also allows players to be unique from one another, something that helps to counteract the limited customization options.
SWING AN’ A MISS
My two biggest hates in Last Chaos, and in any MMORPG, are the archaic ‘click-to-move’ system, and the vastly limited character customization. The click-to-move system is unforgivable, as I personally find it to create a truly lackluster experience. No jumping, no feel of control over your character – it may as well be a browser game as far as I’m concerned. Surely there are people out there that prefer click-to-move over the vastly popular ‘WASD’ system – and that’s fine. But at least allow us to choose the method we prefer. Surely this can’t be too difficult to implement on the grand scale of things.
The limited character customization is again an inexcusable one, as in Last Chaos there is barely any choice at all. When you create your character you are able to choose your class from a very small number of standard archetypes (Titan, Knight, Sorcerer, Mage, Rogue and Healer), gender is locked (Rogues can only be female, for example), there is only one available race (Human), and there is also little in the way of hair and face options too. I don’t want to look like everyone else, for the love of god, stop making me!
PvP in Last Chaos is unfortunately quite limited, and while players are able to attack other players as they choose, there are penalties involved for those that do to prevent griefing. Larger scale battles like castle sieges would have added much to Last Chaos, but happily the unique skill advancement system helps to make up for this.
Final Verdict: Good
While Last Chaos does add much to the standard MMORPG formula, it does little to entertain players, and offers no long term benefits or rewards. The graphical improvements are amazing, as are the animations, but are ultimately let down by a stock standard grind-based experience.
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Last Chaos System Requirements
Minimum Requirements:
OS: Windows (R) Vista/ XP/2000 (95/98/ME/NT/Server are not supported)
CPU: 1 GHz Intel Pentium III or equivalent
RAM: 512MB
HDD: 700MB
Graphics Card: Geforce FX, Radeon 9600 128MB
DirectX: 9.0c
Recommended Specification:
OS: Windows (R) Vista/ XP/2000 (95/98/ME/NT/Server are not supported)
CPU: 2 GHz Intel Pentium IV or equivalent
RAM: 1.0 GB or better
HDD:1.0 GB or more
Graphics Card: Geforce 6×00, Radeon x600 256MB or better
DirectX: 9.0c or better
