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 Gates of Andaron, 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 Gates of Andaron slow paced, and at many points - plain borning.