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Vanguard Collector's Edition | 
 enlarge | From: Sony Online Entertainment
Category: Video Games
List Price: $59.99
Our Price: $19.08
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 14378
Format: CD-ROM
Platform: Windows XP
Genre: role_playing_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Collector's
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 7.6 x 2.6
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MPN: 41152
Model: 41152
UPC: 814582411525
EAN: 0814582411525
ASIN: B000JLMZRQ
Release Date: January 29, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days
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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
Set Yourself FreeProduct InformationWelcome to Telon land of a thousand kingdoms where vast and ancientcivilizations have crumbled under war and the relentless march of time. Asthe people struggle to rebuild their once-great cities legendary age-oldmagics are reawakening to threaten the world. Telon is in desperate needof heroes. Stake your claim - and forge your destiny.Includes Exclusive Art Book Soundtrack CD Cloth Map of Telon In-game item - your choice of a magic wand or horseshoes 1 of 3 collectible Hero Cards each granting an exclusive in-game item Guild Kit including ten 10-day buddy keys and a Guild Trophy (upon owning a Guild House) Includes a 90-day subscription to Vanguard: Saga Heroes Station Players! (with active game subscription) Station Players merges the game world with the World Wide Web to give players incredible access to their characters guilds and items. (Internet connection required) Product Features Join thousands online in epic adventures spanning three massive continents in a persistent world. Play your way: fight craft or use diplomacy to gain power and riches. Explore a seamless and immersive world free of zoning and instances. Experience reactive Synergistic Combat that relies on teamwork for colossal damage. Travel on a variety of unique mounts from horses and unicorns to ships and winged dragons. Build and command your own ships navigating treacherous tides and dangerous storms. Establish a formidable reputation by challenging other players in fierce PVP action Windows Requirements Windows 2000 XP 2.4 GHz Intel processor or 2400+ or higher model AMD processor 512 MB of RAM 20 Gigabytes Hard Drive space 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible computer 100% DirectX compatible Keyboard or input device Vertex and Pixel shader 2.0 compatible hardware with 128MB of texture memory 100% DirectX compatible Sound Card 56K+ Internet Connection 16X DVD-ROM driveRe
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a great mmorpg for the old school gamers August 20, 2010
Robert Adams
ok so if youre reading this youre probably looking for a new mmorpg to try. maybe youre tired of WOW? maybe youve tried a few mmorpg's and you cant seem to understand why so many people play them. either way, read my review and give this game a chance.
first off this is a pay to play game so youre going to need to set up an account and use a credit card. lucky for us they do allow a FREE 2 week trial where you can download a great little demo basically called "trial island". after you get the trial island tutorial/demo downloaded and patched you can begin to create your character. now, aside from city of heroes i have never seen an mmo with so many features involved in the character creator. not only do they allow you to determine just about every feature of your characters overall appearance, you are also able to choose between an incredible amount of race/class combinations that you can choose from. there are about 18 different classes who all play differently even though they do get grouped into healer, tank, dps, ect. since there are so many to choose from you may find yourself playing a few different alts just to decide what characters you enjoy the most.
after you create your account, download the game and create your character its time to enter the trial island. i was simply blown away by the overall quality and feel of this isle of dawn. the graphics in this game are beautiful, especially if you have a decent video card. and its not just the graphics, this game has a certain charm about it that will actually make you feel more immersed into the world of Telon. now that youre actually in the game, talk to people. you will immediately sense an drastic change from the playerbase of most other games you may be used to when you play vanguard. a vast majority of the people playing this game are friendly and helpful, even to new players. this is a much more relaxed, mature gaming atmosphere.
another thing i really like about vanguard is the variety of options you have available to you, even at low lv. with most games, mostly due to the lack of real content at lower levels you will experience a mad dash to max level just so that you are able to enjoy the game. not so with vanguard. every player regardless of race or class has 3 different spheres of gaming available to them. you can either choose to be a crafter, a diplomat or just work on your adventuring, which is your class level. me, i chose to dablle some in all 3. i love the idea of logging into the game and actually having options on what you want to do.
the adventuring is admittedly more of what youre used to in other mmo's, quests, quests and more quests. while i dont feel vanguard offers much originality in this aspect of the game i did enjoy playing each class i tried from the dread knight, a tank class, to the psionicist, a dps/crowd control class. one thing you might notice while adventuring is there are no instanced dungeons. the creators of the game felt they took away from the immersion value and didnt implement this deature in the game. another thing to keep in mind is there is a very noticable lack of players. trying to find a group is not always easy and if you dont already know someone in the game or make friends with some people you may find yourself playing solo quite a bit. i would suggest finding a guild as soon as you finish the trial island. adventuring does generally offer the best rewards, especially when you know the right quests and get a good group.
the crafting in vanguard is probably very different than what you are used to. there is a reason the crafting gets mentioned with the same importance as the adventuring. its no simple click and complete affair. in fact, the crafting for vanguard is co complicated that there are websites and forums created just to walk you through the entire process. while the trial island helps you get your crafting to lv 10 you still cant do much with it and learning to craft quality items takes time and hours of working on your crafting skills.
the diplomacy in vanguard seems like a minigame to me. it is basically a card game where you hold a conversation with an npc and pick which diplomacy card you want to use to represent how you try and take control of the conversation. when you have control of the conversation for so many turns you have won the diplomacy, gaining experience and sometimes items. while i dont think the diplomacy is quite as good as the crafting or the adventuring, its still a fun little minigame to play with when youre looking for something different.
this is a great game. the only reason i dont give it 5 stars is not even the fault of the game itself, more of a lack of players, making it difficult to do some quests and also leads to a feeling of being alone while playing at times. overall vanguard is a highly detailed, rich, and rewarding mmorpg that i definitely reccommend for the more mature player. i would not suggest this game to a pvp player since the pvp server is basically dead, or was the last time i checked. if you are however looking for a great game with helpful, mature players and you dont mind the low population vanguard may be the right game for you.
 The Best of the Best December 18, 2009
John B Boswell (Bedford, Texas, US)
This is just the best of the best. Although the starting area"The Isle of Dawn" is
a very tiny area, it is a great place to learn a few of the basics and to pick-up
descent novice gear. Once you reach level 10 in any sphere,such as Adventuring,
Crafting, or Diplomacy or any combination there of, you are premitted to enter the
main game, which is a mind blowing shock compared to "The Isle of Dawn". The main
game consist of three very very massive continents,each with a Capital, large cities, towns, villages and hamlets that are widely spaced out. The massive amount of unique,ulta rare,rare,items is one of the great things about this game and the
uncommon and common items amounts are even more massive and the combinations are
endless. The Isle of Dawn, has only one rented flying mount and no land mounts, in
the main game there a wide selection of flying mounts and a very very large selection of land mounts that you can own and at different places you can rent different mounts. In the main game you can buy or build a wide selection of ships, and you can buy or build your house or guildhall. You can join any of hundreds of
guilds, run by players or you can start your own guild. The shear number of quests
in the main game is very massive. The quests, raids and wilderness are well balanced
between solo, small group, and large group. Leaving the choice to the player of what
he is to do, up to himself, as it should be. Where you want go and what you want to do when you get there, is up to you. It is possible for a player to solo a lower small group quest or a much lower large group quest.
 Vanguard Doesn't Impress February 25, 2009
F. J. Alonso (Central Valley,CA)
Vanguard was released a couple years ago and was hailed as a game to bring back the grind and severe penalties that was made legendary in the original Everquest. The launch was marred by bugs so I stayed away from the game until the community claimed the game was 'fixed'.
The game ran poorly on my Nvidia 8800gt 512mb card and the zones were deserted. I encountered bugs (dead creatures heads floating in the air for example) and the character looks were uninspiring. I did like the wide variety of classes and races but you could find that in other fantasy MMOs like Everquest 2.
I can't recommend this game when there are so many other great MMOs out there such as LOTRO, WOW, EQ2 and COH.
Vanguard, collector's edition November 23, 2008
John M. Anderson Jr. (L.I N.Y)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's old EQ met EQ2 had a kid and the kids grown and the bugs are ironed out now =)
Amazing game! November 7, 2008
Roman Onik (Hewitt, NJ USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The game does have heavy system requirements but it pays off. The world is simply amazing. Having seen Vanguard, I can't force myself to play World of Warcraft. PvP system is uneven from what I hear but if you're like me and you enjoy adventuring, the humongous world of Vanguard offers plenty of that. It is truly humongous, you will get tired of your character before you explore the world. The game is also significantly better when compared to what it was a year ago, so disregard any old reviews. Crafting & Diplomacy is an alternate way to level up and although it is mostly grinding it takes skill & strategy and is not a mindless button clicking. The new starting zone is free, so give it a shot! (worth upgrading your PC for this) :-)
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