FusionFall presses the big shiny red button -- launches

I played Fusion Fall quite a bit during it's beta, and IMHO, it is setting the bar for web-enabled MMO's. For a quote-unquote kids game, this title is more polished than many supposed triple A MMO titles that launched last year. If you're a fan of the genre at all you owe it to yourself to take a look at this game.

Dlangar
http://ofcourseillplayit.com

browser-based MMO... primarily subscription-based, everything but one area called Future Zone. A subscription is $5.95 per month.... I pass!!

"browser-based" implies that content is served up via web server to your browser window and that no significant data or files are downloaded to and stored on your hard drive. I've also seen references to simplified security due to not having to configure firewall settings like you would with a traditional client/server MMO.

Additionally, "browser-based" seems to be synonymous with "less quality".

Neither are the case with FusionFall. While FusionFall is played in a browser window, via plugin, and content is streamed as necessary, core files (over 500MB of them) are downloaded and stored on your machine. It's essentially a client/server game that uses the browser window as the game client. Also, I did have to allow FusionFall files access with my firewall (Comodo).

In terms of quality, the graphics are far better than any live "browser-based" game I've see, including Runescape's allegedly "high def" graphics. They certainly aren't Age of Conan graphics (they're pretty simple), but they use some decent tech (particle effect density, shading, glow, anisotropic filtering, custom texture quality, etc...) and the overall style (colors, cel-shaded characters, etc...) is completely appropriate to the game.

All that being said, even my kids don't think FusionFall is that great of a game. At most, they think it's "okay".

I went ahead and played this for half an hour out of bordom. Right now server stability seems to be on the crap end which is forgivable as it JUST released.

However the controls and interfaces really ticked me off especially because even though I could also use keyboard to control movment the damn thing kept following my mouse instead even though I tried to set it to NOT do that. Interfaces remove you completely from the game screen which is annoying to say the least.

The whole thing is a big fat MEH I don't think any other browser based multiplayer games (Runescape, AQW) need to be worried.

After reading through the first impressions post and gallery, the game doesn't seem to offer me enough to invest time into, particularly because of the tiered subscription model which severely limits the amount of content one can see without subscribing. I don't have a problem with such a pricing model in principle but the setting and world aren't enticing enough to bridge the small gap that any subscription imposes.

All the recent talk about microtransaction/free to play/browser based games have gotten me interested in Wizards101 which operates on a similiar model but has for me a more interesting (and arguably) more polished aesthetic.

I thought this game was going to be an unholy trainwreck but after playing it - it's pretty good! Wish the character customization was better with clothes while leveling (Maybe it changes as you level, I don't know.)

Overall if I wasn't currently playing a MMO I'd try this out for a while.

I was quite excited to hear about this, as my son would absolutely love playing it. But unfortunately they do not offer the game outside of the US/Canada. So here in Australia we cannot even play it to find out how good/bad it is. My son is quite disappointed.