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	<title>Calvin Robinson &#187; betas</title>
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		<title>Alpha, Beta, Gold</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of  year again. For some reason it&#8217;s always spring/summer when I get invites to Beta test the latest upcoming MMORPGs. This year I&#8217;m testing Fallen Earth and Jumpgate Evolution. Fallen Earth looked promsing at first, a nice sci-fi mmo start, the introduction was quite decent. However once I exited the tutorial into [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s that time of  year again. For some reason it&#8217;s always spring/summer when I get invites to Beta test the latest upcoming MMORPGs. This year I&#8217;m testing Fallen Earth and Jumpgate Evolution.</p>
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<p>Fallen Earth looked promsing at first, a nice sci-fi mmo start, the introduction was quite decent. However once I exited the tutorial into the real world, I lost all interest. It wasn&#8217;t so much post appocolyptic as it was barren desert land. Go-to missions with static, lifeless NPCs was too boring.</p>
<p>Jumpgate however has a really nice game world, the graphics are pretty enough, although surprisingly not as high as the old EVE Online. I do prefer Jumpgate&#8217;s twitch-based combat system, as opposed to the regular point-and-click combat of most old MMOs, but twitch-based combat is nothing new these days &#8211; the novelty has worn off. I don&#8217;t think this game will be much competition for the highly anticipated (for me, anyway) Black Prophecy <img src='http://www.calvinrobinson.org/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> . There are quite a few space mmos coming out as of late though, so it&#8217;ll be interesting to see how things go.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll write proper reviews on <a href="http://www.godisageek.com/">God is a Geek</a> at a later date. Haven&#8217;t had much time for blogging lately, this is my final month of Uni (yay!).</p>
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