(147 votes, average: 3.73 out of 5)
Loading ...4Story is a 3D Fantasy MMORPG which looks and plays very much like the popular pay-to-play game World of Warcraft. Join one of the two warring factions and pick from three races and six different classes. Like WoW, 4Story is quest driven.
4Story Information
Game Title: 4Story
Genres: 3D, Fantasy, MMORPG
Publisher: Zemi
Developer: Zemi Interactive
Area: Global
Official Site: 4Story
Platforms: Microsoft Windows
Pros: +6 different classes. +WoW style cartoony graphics. +Always quests to do. +Great equipment system. +Each class has 3 different skill trees. +Dueling and factional PvP system.
Cons: -Obvious WoW clone. -Odd English translations. -Both factions have same races/classes. -Very laggy during Beta. -Movement feels slow.
4Story Overview
4Story is currently in Open Beta and its obvious from the start that 4Story borrows heavily from Blizzard’s World of Warcraft. The graphic style is nearly identical and many of User Interface, item and combat features are alike. Even the game world’s terrain looks very similar to WoW’s! 4Story copies WoW even more than Talisman Online. Some might be put off by this blatant copying but as long as it leads to gamers having more choices, I don’t mind at all.
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4Story Review
Drawing it’s roots from the massively successful MMO World of Warcraft - 4Story will see players embarking on an epic Journey through dangerous lands. Or so they would have to believe. There are two factions players can join in 4Story; Craxion or DeFugel. Both factions include the same three races and six classes - Elf, Fairy, and Human for the races, and Archer, Assassin, Warrior, Summoner, Wizard, and Priest for classes. Players are then given several face style and hair color options to customize their characters. After creating a character, players must complete a long line of what I call ‘talking quests.’ Players must walk from one NPC to another, talking to each in order to complete the quest requirements. These NPCs are supposed to introduce players to the game’s basics but the text is so long and oddly translated that there seems little point in reading it. Fortunetly, the NPCs reward your effects with a full set of equipment and a starter weapon.
We’ve been here before…
The DeFugel starting area looks almost identical to the Human starting location in World of Warcraft. There are the same sort of farms, roads, even similar monsters to fight.Like WoW, players cannot distribute stat points when they level up. Instead, players are given 1 skill point each level which can only be allocated in town when talking to a trainer. Each class has three distinct skill lines which look awfully similar to WoW’s talent tree. Also, almost every spell and combat move as a cool down in 4Story, something I found infinetly annoying during my time playing. Even the priest’s basic heal has a 15 second cool down. These cool downs combined with the hideous lag make combat in 4Story slow paced, and at many points - plain borning.
Quests for one and all!
One advantage to having a free game designed so closely to to WoW is that the quests feel very driven. There are always quests to do, and what’s more, these quests will gradually push you further and further away from your starting location. Most free games have quests - but most fail to handle questing in such a free-flowing style. Questing in 4Story isn’t quite as well planned as those found in WoW, mainly due to the poor translation, but it is a vast improvement on those found in most Korean MMORPGs.
Still a ways to go
4Story is still a very new game, and as such it is still riddles with many problems, the most prominent ones being the lag and the graphics bugging out if the game is minimized. 4Story is not the most original game but it is one of the more complete feeling free to play MMORPGs. Quests ensure players always know where to go or what to do next and the faction vs faction PvP combat allows players some break from the grinding. If you’re looking for a free game that looks and plays like a traditional MMORPG, give 4Story a try, it could be just what you’re looking for.
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Ⅰ. Summary
⇒ Mounts for each Races: Horse (for Human), Rhinoceros(for Werebeast), Dear(for Fairy)
There are Pegasus, Buffalo and Dolf that are not limited to any races
Kingdom
Military Nation DeFugel
- Nation of Powerful royal authority
- Strong Military Force
- Based on great agricultural land
Nation of Magic, Craxion
- A Feudal State nation
- Relatively weak military force but replaced with powerful magic skills and alchemy
Nation of Trade, Broa
- Located in the dry Desert area
- Only Above Lv.30 can move to this nation (will be implanted in the game soon)
Warrior
- Warrior has inherited the power and passion from the Fire God ‘ Lumapark’
- As the leader of the team, adjacent attack and defensive are well developed
Assassin
- Assassin has the eye of God of Darkness, ‘Pendatron’
- Well adapted in hiding and using Trap
Archer
- Archer has the smile of Goddess of the Wind, ‘Lapiris’
- Well adapted in moving attack and shooting which is the weak point of the Assassin
Priest
- Blessed by the water god, ‘Lekamie’
- Priests can heal, resurrect and attack by holy/dark magic
Wizard
- Wizards have inherited the energy from god of lightening ‘Pauldron’
- Specialized in wide magic attack by fire, ice or lightening
Summoner
- Summoners inherited the power from god of the land, ‘Endendros’
- They are specialized in growing pets and summoning monsters, and magic skills
Item Systems
Upgrading system: by upgrading your item, you can level up your items
Refining system: This will increase the durability of your items and gears
Ⅱ. Special Features
Merging of Scenario and Game-
Completed view of the world and Scenario
In the game, scenario will explain the view of the world, and in playing the game, it can be a background concept of the game. Many MMORPGs are using screen play in order to display concept of the game, but 4STORY Online has strong story line which reflects the play of one’s own character. Furthermore, users will experience the excitement while in the game exploring fun adventures.
4Story as Game Scenario
to find Memphis pieces. As the adventure goes on, whenever players are to find Memphis pieces, they are able to move back to past and future via time and space portal. As they teleport and runs back and forth of time, they will find out great details about the history and the truth. For the honor of the nation that players are placed, they will make up marvelous story of 4STORY world.
-Suffer to be reborn as a Hero! Fight of Kingdom-
The world of 4Story is divided into 3 kingdoms and each nation is consisted of safety zone, neutralized area, and zone of battle.
Except for the safety zone, continuous battle among them is progressed. And as one side wins, certain benefits will be given to a guild or to the nation.
As you win in the battle, players will get strong weapons, gears and region buff, and extra experience level which they are only given in the territory.
Fight with Strategy; Territory war and Siege warfare
In 4Sotry, for the honor and wealth of one’s nation, players can fight. From 1:1 PvP, Territory War, or Siege Warfare, there are various war systems.
Three Kingdoms of DeFugel, Craxion and Broa exit within the Continent of Iveria where each Kingdom rules over a number of territories that are composed with several Districts. However, there are still number of disputed territories that do not belong to any Kingdoms.
Within those disputed territories, a castle is built to protect the territory and collects tax from 3 areas (villages) within the territory. Castles can be owned by a Guild from each Kingdom through Siege Warfare and only one Guild will gain points or rewards from RvR (Monday ~ Friday). Strategic distribution of participants in the guild or a method will lead your guild to win over the territory war or siege warfare.
Move Forward! Territory War
Territory War is the war that challenges our players to conquer the district within the territory.
Starting village (or territory) which users are guarded by the War mode NPCs, and this village (territory) belongs to the Kingdom with the player who achieves the highest points in defeating Guardians within the territory. Once the territory is occupied, players from the Kingdom that owns the territory get the access without being attacked by the Guard NPCs.
As users occupy certain territory and hold on to it till the end of the territory war, they will be rewarded.
We will not step back any more. Ones will try to keep and the others will try to take Siege
The Siege Warfare is the War system between the Guilds from Hostile Kingdoms to achieve the Castle that is authorized to govern the conflict districts. The castle is surrounded with wooden fence and guard towers at the gates and is composed with an Outer Castle and an Inner Castle each with the gates. The gates of the Outer and Inner Castle are opened for the users to enter whereas surrounding gates can only be entered with the Captain of the Guard NPC’s permission.
One of the special features of siege warfare is that siege warfare is the battle between the guilds.
Even though one’s level is low, or one is in the different guild, users can be recruited in the team.
By the activeness and victory, users can get rewards.
- Completion of Community System, RSCS-
Real Time Strategic Command System, RSCS
R.S.C.S. (Real-time Strategic Command System) is 4Story’s unique system that allows faster and easier communication between the users. Commander (Party Leader) can perceive combat status and location of the members to give orders such as moving backward or to hold position and etc, through the mini-map. The members can instantly receive orders from the Commander through the blue arrow on the screen. R.S.C.S. can be used from a small-scale combat between parties of 2~3 users up to a large-scale war like a Siege Warfare.
What is RSCS?
In short, this is visualized order system. For more efficient and systemized communications between users, it was designed. It is the best when direction or order is just displayed on the screen, rather than typing.
* RSCS literally is GUI (Graphical User Interface) -used chatting system which allows users to communicate faster, better and more efficiently.
-Endless Adventure, Massive amount of Quests-
Never Ending 4Story
Basic of MMORPG is the adventure. Through the adventure, players grow, and get to taste different aspects of the game. During the adventure, communication between other users is useful to earn information. And these all are based on the massive amount and strongly designed quests. One of the strong point of 4Story is that all of these quests are related and composed from the strong scenario of its. Basic essence of the quests is different from other games, since there are 3 types of quests; main, event and server quests. These quests will lead users to experience the world of adventure.
I am the main character. Main Quest
Main quest is focused and centered in the scenario. All the quests that are preceded will not be able to be done again as any other package games. Each quest is consisted as network form from each scenario implanted in the game. Story line is related and connected throughout the game. Especially, traveling time by teleporting to the Instant dungeon displays crystal of main quest. As proceeding quests, players will experience the scenario and lead to the victory of one’s own and nation as finding out the secret of history and relic.
Repeated Quest
Server quest is a quest that leads all users around the region to participate. And when quest begins it will be noticed to users around the area to encourage others to participate. This is not just temporary event but automatically occurred from the server, so players can always be excited and be alarmed. This is distinguished by the level and the area, so anyone will be able to participate anywhere.
[Monster Attack]: Suddenly number of monsters will increase and monsters will show up in certain field or area which will lead users to gather at that certain spot.
Guarantees fast Leveling and splendid Items, Event Quest
When certain conditions are met, these quests will pop up. These quests most likely will not be related to quests that users are doing. Such as Field hunting quests and many others like dungeon quests or raid quests, will guarantee users to earn powerful items and gears. Especially, raid quests might be done with cooperation with other users since many of them require to destroy second boss leveled monsters. These quests may be tough but will satisfy users for many good rewards.
Brilliant Battle Action, Speedy Fight-
Move, otherwise you will die. Running Battle System (RBS)
Do you want to hunt as you are standing still? 4Story refuses that. Users will taste fast and active movement of one’s character as hunting monsters or fight in the battle running. Especially by using RBS, users can stop/or move while in the action of fighting. An instant decision made in the battle will lead one’s character to give huge damage to monsters or opponents. You will have to master RBS system if you want efficient and exciting hunting and fighting.
Tragically inept translations. Lots of UI pain, particularly scrollbars. Turning off NPC names *also* turns off the icons saying what they do, which is spectacularly unhelpful. NPCs have “talk” options even when they can’t be talked to. Boxes have “open” options even when they can’t be opened. Monsters have no aggro radius, which is boring. HP regens way too fast, which is boring. All early quests are simple fetches, which are boring. Quest chains require talking to the same person each time, requiring a lot of back and forth walking, which is boring.
The game is still in Beta for North America. As such, translations (among other things) are still being worked on.
As for things being “boring”, it’s no different from World of Warcraft being called “boring” for the same reasons. And again, it’s in Beta, so things aren’t completely nailed down yet.
it won’t let me log into the server and there is only one up right now
Thanks for posting this review:D Im gonna start playing tomorrow because then the real version is released, leaving negative comments about Open Beta is real stupid because the open beta is made to see where the negative parts of the game are and improving them. The game might improve a lot or just a bit.
Erik
thanks lots man for the link!
I was lookin all over on google for the 4story website and it wouldn’t come up but the link got me to it somehow hehe.. 
TY!!!!
~Matt~
hey by the way, may you tell me the song name? I like it and would like to buy
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~Matt~
Looks nice, but WoW wannabe?
I was wandering is there anybody else who cant get into the game? It says you have to go to a nother world but there is only 1 server.
its not opening back up till oct 20, right now the server is in maintainace
heyy how come it doesn’t work wen i tried to download??
like something pop up about plugin and wen i install it it doesn’t work.
4story is a wow clone almost identical in gameplay but better actually the players in game are kind and willing to help and not stuck up there own rectums and its free not bad game not brilliant either oo same as wow
i have tried almost half the MMORPG’s on this website and currently iam on ShadowBane. The second MMORPG that i played was Fiesta that i enjoyed greatly and reached until lvl 30. even though the language is poor and their are only4 simpl clasess with no races and barely a character adjustment i loved it. Fortunatly i tried other mmorpg and a new update came on Fiesta that made lvling up almost imposible. I couldn’t restart again so no i hope 4sotry is like it, and this is a WoW wannabe but who cares, thats the whole thing that will make it nice i guess, its like Wow but free. And thats what i want,
Cheers KeL
WoW wannabe but who cares, thats the whole thing that will make it nice i guess, its like Wow but free. And thats what i want”
Hell yeah Kel quite agree
Well they “fixed” the no aggro radius, its quite large now, couple it with the small areas chock full of creatures and you see lots of dead players and trains of monsters. It’s fairly decent til about 8th-9th level when you have to hunt aggressive critters, then it gets pretty stupid you literally never get a break unless you run way out of the zone. Any creature killed respawns near instantly with no pause, so the second it spawns it attacks this makes it near impossible to fight 1 vs 1 even if you try to stay on the “fringe” of a zone.
I waited 2 weeks to play this……
Apparently the lag issue has been taken care of as I have not experienced any.
I have only played a little but i will give the Pros and Cons I have found so far.
Pros:
- You can get a mount early (makes up for the slow running speed).
- So far the community seems fun and helpful.
- Has faction based PvP which is harder to come by in F2P games. I prefer this as I feel it strikes the right balance: you kill half of the people you meet on sight and help the other half whenever you can.
- If you like cartoon graphics, these are pretty good. Not great, but good. WoW definitely evokes a better atmosphere but 4Story puts in a solid effort.
- As mentioned above, good equipment system. I like how you can have both a short and long ranged weapon equipped at the same time; you simply select a different command to utilize each.
- You can get a mount and additional storage bags through quests and with in-game currency; they don’t have to be purchased through the cash shop as with some other F2P games.
Cons:
- Slow running speed. The early mount helps here so that Pro and this Con cancel each other out.
- Music and sounds are uninspiring. You need the sound effects but I highly recommend you turn the music off and simply listen to your own music in the background.
- For a game with “Story” in the title, it’s sad that you can’t follow the story due to the bad translations. Just ignore the main quest dialogue as it’ll hurt your head too much trying to decipher and instead focus on the summary at the top of each window. This summary usually has enough key words for you to figure out what you’re supposed to do.
- Talking to store NPCs for quests requires that you right click on them and then select “Talk” from a sub menu (double clicking only pulls up their shop). Not a big deal but sometimes it can take several right clicks before the sub menu opens.
- Draw distance, even when maxed out in the menu, seems a little low. I’m hoping someone comes up with a workaround for this as I’d like to see more of the world around me.
I’m still waiting to see the cash shop. I have hopes that this game’s biggest Pro will be that you truly do not need to purchase anything from the cash shop to experience the game (the mount and bags give me hope). I’m hoping it will sell, at a reasonable cost, items which enhance your experience/enjoyment but are not necessarily required.
I’m perfectly okay with cash shop items giving a slight edge to those who purchase them, but I don’t want it to be like perfect World where you need to buy hieros in order to even think of PvPing.
Been playing this on and off since Oct 21st and for the most part its ok. The lag as some have mentioned is fixed and runs fairly smoothly. I’ve noticed that when clicking on npc’s doesn’t always work and you have to click several times and sometime you cant click the npc because everyone is around him. They should make it so you can use another key to get past the players and get right to the npc like they do in perfect world. But its ob right now so there are going to be problems and things fixed as it goes on. One person mentioned the quest to get a mount but it only lasts for a week (At least that’s what it says in the description). I haven’t done the quest nor am I going to so not sure if you can repeat the quest like you can do will all the others.
This brings up another thing,
the quests right now are fairly boring and the level cap is 40 temporarily but no date of when it will be increased to I think 80? Trying to kill anything by your self is almost imposable unless you kill one than run, then run back to kill another. I’ve only played the human warrior so far and im going to try another because from what I’ve seen the human warrior has no defense, no attack power, no magic defense and the skill tree what there is of it is lacking badly. In order to use a defense skill you have to have the defensive stance. But if your in the defensive stance you cant use your attack skills? Just seems a little backwards at least right now. I’ve never played wow but if this anything like it, then im glad I never wasted money on it.
After finishing the quest and getting the mount the gentlemen above is indeed correct; it expires in one week. I’m a bit annoyed at this.
Also, I would like to say that combat is great if you’re a ranged class but as also mentioned above, very difficult for a melee class(warriors and assassins). I noticed this when I made an assassin alt. It was definitely more difficult completing quests with my assassin as it was with my priest. They really need to reduce aggro range to give melee a fighting chance.
Somebody at the top mentioned that initially the aggro range was too small. I think they overcorrected it and need to back it down to somewhere in the middle. This should be an easy correction so hopefully it gets taken care of.
I also tried an archer but found that, at least at the start of the game, the price of arrows kept me at the brink of poverty.
I have played alot of MMORPG’s, And to my surprise 4story online seems to be one of the best out there. It’s simular to WOW but differs in many other aspects.
You would have to try this game to understand what I mean. Besides, IT’S FREE! unlike WOW…:}
Well i wish more games took on the aspect of fiesta online and not make arrows just the bow so you always have loads of money. $.$
i say this is a ripoff to WoW
Ive quit wow i while back now…i miss it sure, was great to interact with a few people, ive been wantin to go back…just the time and all, so been looking for a game which i can exactly “dedicate” myself to and play calmly
Though reading it, i think 4Story, hate the name, seems good, downloading and tryin it out…however the thing that hasn’t been mentioned is the ability for large groups of people to hook up and do some damage either PvP…Quests…(bringin more wow into it now)Instances, if instances, or looong group quests, or areas which require a group of people to finish or conquer, are added, then 4Story would be a really dam good game…dont mind that its the same as WoW…love WoW anyway
Also how botu guilds…and guild towns/forts that u take over (Age of Conan :P:D;)) they in ther sumwhere?
i looked at the screenshots right away, skipping the descriptions, not realizing i wasn’t looking at wow, and thought i was. Took me about a minute or so to realize i wasnt. If this were to be a exact duplicate, cant complain, cuz then itd be a free wow game. look forward to when i get the time to download it and actually try it
would any1 mind emailing me at steveymanboy@hotmail.com when its open? thx
Very Laggy During BETA…
the game is still in BETA. that’s why it is so lag.
cant grind
cant move
cant talk to players.
cant do things as a player.
maybe i should wait for this game to improve a bit more.
i cant blame the game, as i mentioned it is in BETA.
hoping that the beta end sooner or later.
peace ^^ guys
game really isn’t that bad. It does have some poor translation but it hasn’t bothered to much. Movement does feel really slow and when you die it just makes you want to quit cause it takes forever just to get back to your body. gameplay is pretty fun. quests really on killing things pretty much. also if you play as a summoner the beginner spells all look exactly the same. But other than that its a pretty fun game
I don’t see how this is a “copy” of WoW.
WoW is a copy of Everquest..
You think WoW invented “instances” or “mounts”? OR GRASS??!!
No. No. No.
4Story isn’t a copy of anything but a world we are all used to with green grass and brown/green leafy trees.
You think WoW created the Earth? instead of some “great being or power”. Oh yes, WoW created human race, birds and trees. I’ve played WoW a lot to know what’s it about, but I’m glad it hasn’t turned me into a brainless pile of uselessness like everyone who claims 4Story is WoW “wannabe”.
Go away, WoW-fanboys. Make your own game that has NOTHING that has ever been in other games. Or you could stop whining.
It looks like asian/unnamed western influenced oriental country version of World of Warcraft probably not as good. it looks like it tried really hard to copy WoW but didnt have the funding and decided that half way was good enough. Playing it was like knowing that you’ve hung out with a really cool dude (WoW) and now he’s graduated and left you with his retarded younger brother that is completely inept. Or in other words like eating a really good ham and cheese sandwich but suddenly realizing that the filling has been replaced with a brown pasty substance (…….)that doesn’t exactly smell like roses. So save Yourselves the trouble this game is HORRIBLE and unless “YOU” “ARE” as retarded as a monkey thats just smoked a joint don’t play this game.
WoW wannabe thats great I want WoW for freee! who cars if it copys it still, is somewhat differnt.and it has pretty good looks to. I used to play shadowbane its fun,but to big a world not anuff players