Xenimus - PC

Once upon a time, some guy named E.J. Thayer decided to create a game. Thankfully, God had gave this man a very special talent and a larger than usual penis, but for this review, only the first one count. Mr. Thayer knew how to make a damn MPRPG (Multi Players Role Play Game), and after a lot of hard work, created the world know as Xenimus.

I will start with this. Xenimus is no Everquest. Xenimus is no Baldur’s Gate, nor is it like Final Fantasy XI (the one who will be online). Xenimus is Xenimus. If you are a fan of wrestling, think ECW. Different, with their own fan base, and pretty good. (Ok, ECW closed their doors not long ago, but… forget it) Xenimus was made by one man. Xenimus is owned by one person. Xenimus is fun to play.

First, when I got it on download.com, I was amazed. The two first weeks are free, free of doing whatever you wants in a world where real people play with or against you. Free of playing the lone wolf, free of creating a guild to lead a war against another guild, free to help or to kill others players.

However, it’s not as amazing as it may sound. Guilds can be formed yes, and they can even have a house for protection and meeting, but there’s no “big war” nor “confrontation between guilds”. “Use your imagination” could be the slogan of the game.

The World of Xenimus is quite large, and there’s lot of monsters and items to be found. It’s always fun to find something new in a new place you never been. Unfortunately, this isn’t happening a lot, since the whole map as been already discovered by “heroes” of Xenimus, or said in another way, character so high level you wonder how they can still have a life outside this game. I meet a couple of them, and some are really big jerks, but most are true “heroes” that play this game since the beginning, and knows everything about it.

The advantage of this game is the same as it disadvantage. EJ Tayer, the creator. Like I said before, this game is not the creation of a big company. There’s bugs. Not a shitloads of them, but some. Hell, EJ even had to clear all items from everybody’ storage because of an items multiplication bug. This happened twice, and I’m sure he lost lot of money out of it. But with the help of the players, who most of them care about the product and it success, EJ is able to make the game better at every update. And that’s the advantage Xenimus has. A direct liaison with the creator, with Xenimus’ God. (And God, he is. His character “Corsix” is level 30 I think, which is almost impossible to kill) On the Xenimus website (http://www.xenimus.com) , you can ask him question, post your suggestions, and read what he as to say. Right now, he is working on a 4th server, a “dungeon server”, which would allow the players from each of the three others servers to meet and level up. He also said so! mething about an Underground city, which caused many players to piss on themselves.

Xenimus gives you the opportunity to do a lots of things others games only dreams about. Meeting people, going on an hunting trip, going into shrines (some of the hardest place to go, if you don’t know the way) and getting stronger for no real reason except being stronger than others, it’s all good clean fun.

The Good!		The Last Word(s): Hey, it’s free the first two weeks, and cost 5$ US a month (Which means about 75$ Canadian for me…) and you get a good addictive game. No, the quests aren’t programmed yet, nor will they be anytime soon. No, the graphic aren’t that good, and there’s no cool 3D action. But DAMMIT people! Try it! Final Rating: 76% Way Pimpy!
Meeting some great persons Liason with the creator Addictive as Coca-Cola is for me
The Bad...
Minor Bugs Shitload lost of XP when dying Players killers (PK) everywhere
The UGLY.
2x Major Bugs ... more to come? No quest yet Repetitive after a while

BY THE NUMBERS:

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Each game is given a rating from 1 to 5, with 1 being horrible to 5 being outstanding, in 6 different categories. We then take an arbitrary number from the deepest crevices of our ass (basically what we think the game deserves without averaging any numbers together), and then a GYEAH.com stamp quote. 1-10 (Pure Husk); 11-20 (DEAD); 21-30 ("companies" buttchild); 31-40 (Terriable); 41-50 (L.A. Clippers-ish); 51-60(Average as your girlfriend); 61-70(Coolio); 71-80(Way Pimpy); 81-90 (Hotter than Prison Sex); 91-99 (Iconish); 100 (GOD-LIKE). Enjoy.