With Your Destiny
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Publisher: HanbitSoft Inc Genre(s): MMORPG Home Page: http://www.wydglobal.com
Don't look, whatever you do...Unfortunately, the game's visuals do nothing to offset the bland gameplay. HanbitSoft boasts that WYD is a "MMORPG developed with self-developed 3D Engine skill”. I'm not sure about that; the graphics are far from noteworthy. Textures are washed-out and blurry, character models lack detail, and weather effects are unconvincing. A day-to-night cycle continuously changes the ambient lighting and cycles through sky textures, but that hardly makes a difference when the game world itself is so sparsely detailed. Skills and magic have special effects from a bygone era, as if the developers were channeling the first Baldur's Gate, circa 1998. The visual experience is so far behind contemporary MMORPGs that it makes suspending disbelief and becoming a part of the game world difficult. Few players expect Oblivion-level graphics from an online game, but what's offered in WYD is decidedly below the current norm.
The lackluster visuals are at least accompanied by very low system requirements. Even a near-death NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200-based card (with 64MB of memory) was able to run WYD at 1024x768. The YouGamers' minimum requirements are slightly higher, but those specifications account for a resolution of 1280x1024 with uncompressed textures and Effects set to Max. (Switching Effects to Low turns off all lighting and spell effects, so leave this setting on.) Coupled with a decent processor, any Direct3D-8 capable video card with 128MB of memory can drive WYD's visuals at 1600x1200. Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of WYD is the insanity-inducing camera. The 'Tab' key supposedly cycles through camera modes, but this only changes the zoom level, a task easier accomplished with the mouse wheel. There is no chase-cam, which means that navigating is reduced to a point-and-click travel system that's best-suited for isometric games and only confounds movement in a fully 3D world. Because the camera can rotate freely at all times, clipping problems abound. Just keeping the camera out of walls and other objects is a chore. There is an auto-run feature to aid in traveling long distances, but this too is rendered ineffective by the lack of chase-cam-style navigation. These technical issues flow into the audio experience, which can be considered passable. Save for stock weather noise such as rain and wind, ambient sound effects are non-existent. Though the music is professionally crafted and well-done (though not varied enough), some ambient sounds (in towns, especially) would breath more life into the game world. And sound effects? Strictly elementary. These are some of the most canned effects I've heard in a game in years. If you're looking for hardware audio support, look elsewhere – WYD offers only one master volume control.
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