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MMORPG.com's Donna Desborough has been playing EverQuest II's new expansion Shadow Odyssey which launched yesterday. Today, she gives us her impressions of the latest installment of the EQw franchise.

The developers at Sony Online Entertainment have done it again. The Shadow Odyssey is the 5th expansion for Everquest 2 and is once again packed with lush environments and new fights to be won.

The graphics in EQ2 aren't to everyone's liking, but one cannot deny the beauty of the new lands that come with TSO expansion. With 20 plus new areas to explore there is something for everyone here. Some areas may seem familiar, but then you can only make a zone look so different before it starts feeling familiar in places. Still they have done a good job with the new zones and each has its own ambience and character. Several of the original Everquest dungeons have been re-created. Even though these are inside locations it doesn't stop them from being vast in size. Of the re-done dungeons, my favourite was Mistmoore Evernight Abbey. It has a good ambiance and there are details to be found in many places. The Mistmoore dungeons felt like somewhere you'd find a vampire lord living. I think they have done justice to the original.

Take A Look at The Shadow Odyssey.

More quests!! ))

I like the sound of this new expansion I may just download a digital version and give EQ another go. Not really playing anything at the moment and it would be nice to have something to pass the time during the winter months. SOE certainly doesn't waste time with getting their expansions out though.

-Manaia

It's been a year since the last expansion, I'd hardly call that rushed or anything, unless you're used to Blizzard's "once every three years is good, right?" release schedule.

I guess most of you are satisfied with one expansion that raises level caps every 2 years so you are bored out of your skull with the game by the time the levle caps come around. The last 2 expansions that did not raise level caps were great...for about 3 months...So after 3 months you were relagated to playing alts or playing another game. It would be great if SOE could keep it's word and release a new expansion about once evey 4 months....

Originally posted by ohreally

It would be great if SOE could keep it's word and release a new expansion about once evey 4 months....

show me where it has ever said that

Originally posted by Dulissa

Originally posted by ohreally

It would be great if SOE could keep it's word and release a new expansion about once evey 4 months....

 

 

show me where it has ever said that

Or better yet. Give me a Developer that can push out an expansion of the magnitude of RoK or TSO in just 4 months!

Everyone with more then 1 braincell in their head knows that's downright impossible!

Cheers

The original plan as I recall from the forums was to have several adventure packs a year, which were like mini-expansions, followed by 1-2 expansions a year. 

They did indeed follow that pattern...there were adventure packs in Q1 and Q2 of 2005 followed by an expansion in Q3 of 2005.  There was another  expansion in Q1 of 2006 followed by a third adventure pack in Q2 of 2006.  So during the first two years of the game there were two full expansions and three adventure packs.

Then EOF fell into the present pattern of an annual expansion in November, and there has been no adventure pack since the Fallen Dynasty in 6/06.

So in terms of the lifespan of the game, it was:

• Year 1    2 Adventure Packs and 1 expansion
• Year 2    1 Adventure Pack and 2 expansions
• Year 3    1 Expansion
• Year 4    1 Expansion

Originally posted by vickykol

The original plan as I recall from the forums was to have several adventure packs a year, which were like mini-expansions, followed by 1-2 expansions a year. 

They did indeed follow that pattern...there were adventure packs in Q1 and Q2 of 2005 followed by an expansion in Q3 of 2005.  There was another  expansion in Q1 of 2006 followed by a third adventure pack in Q2 of 2006.  So during the first two years of the game there were two full expansions and three adventure packs.

Then EOF fell into the present pattern of an annual expansion in November, and there has been no adventure pack since the Fallen Dynasty in 6/06.

So in terms of the lifespan of the game, it was:

• Year 1    2 Adventure Packs and 1 expansion
• Year 2    1 Adventure Pack and 2 expansions
• Year 3    1 Expansion
• Year 4    1 Expansion

Yep soe keep pushing out all these peice of crap expansions to eq2, because the game was a total failure at launch and for 2+ years, only now after 100 usless expansions and millions of dollars is it even an average game.  Its funny how people keep thinking because soe push out these piece of crap exansions  just to keep up, that they are somehow good and that the speed which they come out means they are good. Jesus 4 of the 4 expansions were made just to counter wow, as they were expcting eq2 to continue the sucess of eq.