(40 votes, average: 3.25 out of 5)
Loading ...Voyage Century is a 3D historical MMORPG set in the 17th century. You can choose to be a merchant or a pirate as you sail to exotic ports around the Mediterranean Sea. Do battle on land with your sword or pistol and on the open sea with your sails and cannons. As far as I know, this is the one of the only historic free to play MMORPGs out there.
Voyage Century Information
Game Title : Voyage Century
Genres: 3D, Fantasy, MMORPG
Publisher : IGG
Developer : Snail Game
Area : USA / Global
Official Site : Click Here
Platforms: Microsoft Windows
Pros: +Great Graphics. +Historic setting. +Ship vs Ship PvP. +Great crafting and resource gathering system. +Unique game play.
Cons: -Combat can be sluggish. -Ships move slowly. -Steep learning curve, you’ll be lost at first.
Voyage Century Review
When I first started playing Voyage Century I couldn’t believe how different it was from your traditional free-to-play, anime-inspired grind fest. Voyage Century is set in the 17th century Mediterranean Sea and you can sail around and explore the region, including the major ports of the day, such as Constantinople and Alexandria. The game actually takes place on real life location which isn’t a common theme in MMORPGs and an welcomed change from the cliche fantasy environment.
There is a lengthy tutorial, but unlike most games I actually recommend you complete it since this game has a steep learning curve. Even after the tutorial, when you’re on land you’ll still be pretty much lost. Follow the resource gathering and land tutorials and ask for help if you get stuck, as you’ll need all the help you can get in this game. As you get stronger and richer, you’ll have the opportunity to be a trader, investor, or vendor. Or you can also go the route of the pirate and harass the merchants.
Voyage Century’s guild system is also unique, as player run guilds can actually go out and claim a port for themselves and spend resources on actually upgrading the port. Upgraded ports provide resources and easily accessible merchants for the entire guild. If you can get past Voyage Century’s learning curve and understand the basics, there is a lot of depth here to keep you busy for quite a while.
Voyage Century Screenshots
by PanzerMeister, on 06.23.08 @ 11:13 am
Voyage Century is a very good game and probably one of the best f2p games out there.
I like the fact that equipment, weapons, or appearance isn’t overdone in looks like most MMORPGs are. This game sticks with realism, you can make yourself look like a ship captain, an American Minutemen, a British Redcoat, etc etc.
You basically have a few types of jobs. You can become a Merchant and sell foods and products from city to city and make big profits. You can because a Navy Captain and fight pirates to gain money. Lastly you could be a explorer and find new lands.
This game’s land combat is good but not great. It’s sea combat is really were it hits the golds. If you’re a merchant, you would need to build a merchant ship, what that does is give you lots of storage space for products and foods, but the ship is weaker compared to a battleship, and it has much less firepower so you would be needing the best cannons and strong cannon balls to make up for it. A battleship would have much less storage space but a lot more cannons, firepower, rams, hooks etc.
Now, the game has many cities and ports you can land on. You can start at either Alexandria, Athens, Beirut, and I think Istanbul please correct me if I’m wrong.
There are are a couple of weapon types that can be used. That is Sword, Falchion, Gun, Axe. You also got personal skills like Fishing, woodcutting, mining, etc, which could be useful for upgrading a ship eh?
What’s really interesting is that you can siege a city or port by destorying the city defenses and towers, land, then go to the top of a tower to capture a flag and gain on the raid.
The Ships do move slowy but I myself just put on some tunes and joyfully wait to get to my destination.
Then there’s the reputation system. Depending on what city you start on. Lets just say you start on Athens, you gain 10+ REP from the Kingdom of Greece for being a citizen of Athens. Now, lets say you decided to become a citizen of the Istanbul in the Ottoman Empire, you would lose 10 REP from The Kingdom of Greece because The Ottoman Empire and they are enemies. If you decide to be a merchant, you can gain REP if you sell products that certain Cities really need or if you complete a Merchant/Captain/Explorer Quest in a certain city. However if you gain negative on a certain city or nation, when you land on their city they will open fire on you as an enemy. Basically, if you decide to raid innocent NPC Ships you’ll get penalized in REP.
Overall I would give this game 5 STARS 10/10 I love it.
by OrionZhong, on 08.24.08 @ 6:57 am
This game looks exactly like Bounty Bay Online. I have to completely agree with the post and the review. It is an excellent game. If your computer can handle it the highest level graphics are simply stunning… I just went to the link and it seems to be a different game, does anyone know the difference?