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Vanguard Saga of Heroes | 
 enlarge | From: Sony Online Entertainment
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $2.73
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Rating:  87 reviews
Sales Rank: 10387
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me
Genre: role_playing_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.2
MPN: 41132
UPC: 814582411327
EAN: 0814582411327
ASIN: B000JLMZS0
Release Date: January 29, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand new factory sealed , I ship fast same day with delivery confirmation#
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| Features:
| • | A vast and detailed world: Explore two large continents and an archipelago riddled with dungeons and adventures. | | • | Create and customize your character: In a world of thousands, carve your own unique destiny and appearance choosing one of 19 different races from Orcs and Goblins to Dwarves and Elves. | | • | 15 professions to choose from: Choose from one of 15 exciting professions including Paladin, Ranger, Sorcerer, Psionicist, Bard, and Rogue. | | • | Dynamic reactive combat system: Build chains of special attacks and reactions with Openers, Bridges, and powerful Finishing moves | | • | Dozens of unique mounts: With dozens of unique mounts to collect, you can race into battle on your warhorse, command the skies on the back of your dragon or join friends and embark on a sea-based adventure to discover faraway lands. |
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Product Description
In Vanguard: Saga Of Heroes, you'll face the challenges of a war torn world. Enter a vast, detailed world of swords and sorcery, of dragons and knights, of fiery swords and chests overflowing with treasure. Undead threats and elemental menaces are encroaching, and the land is in desperate need of heroes. Your journey into this world, and towards becoming a hero, begins now. Join a community of thousands of players online as you traverse a breathtaking landscape on the back of a dragon as you explore the grandeur of a world designed by the seminal fantasy artist Keith Parkinson. Create and customize your character from 19 races and 15 professions. Combat fierce opponents with a groundbreaking dynamic combat system that forces you to react to your opponents as you tie together devastating combinations of attacks. Challenge awaits the boldest of heroes! Talk your way to the top - As a diplomat, cunning words are your most powerful weapon as you curry favor in centers of power Interactive tradeskills - Collect essential materials and use skills such as blacksmithing, alchemy and ship building to create valuable and powerful items Make Telon feel like home by staking your claim on a piece of land and furnishing your own house with unique items
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| Customer Reviews: Read 25 more reviews...
 Vanguard - very fun game! November 3, 2008
J. Forbis (MO USA)
I have played numerous online games over the years. This is one of the better ones! It is actually a 3-in-1 game. You have Diplomacy, Crafting and Adventuring options. You can max out your levels in all of them (it doesn't divide up your experience between the 3) or you can concentrate on just one or two. You can have a level 10 Adventurer, a level 2 Diplomacy, and a level 6 Crafter all in the same character!
There are also numerous character choices to start with along with different races and special abilities. The character building allows almost limitless facial types/expressions.
I personally think this could be a WOW killer except for a couple of lag and stability issues. Hopefully, the developers are working on these problems as I write!
The community is wonderfully helpful and there is a special area for 1st thru 10th level beginners. It is called the Isle of Dawn and for those who complete the end there are some special items that will come in extremely helpful for the main game. Overall a very enjoyable game and one I can see myself playing over and over again. If you haven't tried it, you should download the trial and see for yourself.
Constantly improving September 29, 2008
Treg Mclaughlin (Tacoma,WA USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Vanguard had a shaky start for sure, but since the launch almost two years ago it has improved constantly. The game is still not perfect, but the playerbase seems to be growing, and I have a blast every time I log in!
 the real Vanguard September 17, 2008
Stephen Jones (here)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Returning player from launch. I was one of the many disappointed by Vanguard. I wanted to fall in love with it, but I couldn't. I always checked up to see how it was improving. Then I read impressions of the current state, so I had to check it out for myself. WOW!!! Vanguard is now truly an epic game. Flying mounts are in, ships are in, basically everything promised at release is now in game and then some. The team currently helping VG chug along has done a tremendous job. VG wil never see subscription numbers in the millions, but it will have a very tight knit community that love our game. I can finally call Telon my home for good.
Refreshing September 4, 2008
Thomas (Europe)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have played a dozen of MMO beginning with UOL and finishing with Age of Conan that I have just desinstalled fatre it occupied my HD for full whooping 8 days .
In my personnal ranking sofar I had :
EQ N 1 for immersion and the size of the world
LOTRO N 1 for graphics and a consistent story line/quest system
EQ2 N 1 for trade skills
After a friend's suggestion I had installed Vanguard 1 week ago .
Sofar it has been a very rewarding experience .
The overall feeling is clearly EQ like while many additionnal features were added .
The strong points I already noticed :
- a mature player basis . Many quilds require 18+ for membership and the players are accordingly rather helpfull and patient . That makes for a pleasant change after having suffered for 1 + year the WoW masses .
- a very good customer service . Friday evening I have made a /report about a quest that wouldn't update correctly . I expected that I would perhaps get a mail on Monday telling me that they were working on it . Instead after 10 minutes I got a tell from a GM who joined me immediately and solved the problem . He was very friendly and polite what also was a pleasant change after most of other MMOs .
- original and excellent diplomacy system . Especially the newbie diplomacy quests are interesting and make for a good introduction in the game (as a Gnome I have been incorporated in the counterintelligence department and charged with the investigation of strange disappearance of mages and inventors) .
- the trade skills are similar to EQ2 that I rank N 1 so , obviously , I am very satisfied with it
- the world is huge and non instanced what enhances the immersion feeling
- the classes are very complementary and balanced . On top of the classical EQ classes (with enchanters called psionists here) there are blood mages and disciples . Sofar I have tried only 3 (necromancer , bard and psionist) and they get all 3 a very different gaming feel .
- patience is needed and players don't get spoonfed with items , XP and gold by just running around 10 minutes . That has also the merit that it effectively eliminates most kids that want everything at once . The death penalty is a good thing in that respect too .
To the weaker points I'd mention :
- one doesn't see many players . My highest level is 12 and I have met players only in the big cities . Sofar it was easy to solo but I play MMORPGs mostly for the first MM . If I wanted to go solo , I would not buy an OL game . I also noticed that calls for groups were extremely rare and when it happened it was in the 30ies range . I have been told that :
a) the world is so huge that players are all over the place
b) the bad launch of the game has chased most of the players away but the population began to go again up since SOE took over , eliminated most of the bugs and implemented features that were not there at launch
c) a free trial is foreseen in september that would create an influx of new players
Well wait and see . It was precisely the huge player basis that had been an important element of the immersion feeling in EQ .
- the graphics and character customisation . While not bad it could be improved
- too fast day/night change . It is irritating . I'd scale it to something like 3 hours day and 1 hour night .
Definitely the strong and original points of this game largely outweigh the weaker points and there is still potential to improvement by future releases .
I'd even rank it overall a tad above LOTRO that was for me sofar the best "modern" MMORPG .
I recommend it to any mature player and certainly to all those who appreciated EQ .
Worth checking out August 11, 2008
Jow Blow (nowhere currently)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ive played Vanguard since day 1 and enjoyed it from the beginning.
It had a rough start and lost many customers, but it has come a long way and is currently experiencing a resurgence of players. Performance is literally 100%-300% better for most players, with thousands of bugs squashed and quite a bit of new content.
Its about the only major MMO on the market now that can be considered a bit more 'old school'. If you enjoyed Everquest, this is about the only game out there that has the potential to make give you back a bit of that feeling. The huge open world is a big plus, and there is so much content that you have to play through multiple characters to ever see it all.
Its absolutely worth trying out now that it is ship shape, and there is going to be a free downloadable trial coming out in about 2-3 weeks from this date (august 10, 2008). Check it out!
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