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By Danny "Ralsu" Gourley

About
This List

Please refer to the Top
Ten
Free-to-Play Games Portal to find out how to get a game you
make or like on this list.

Week in Review

Please note that the number of weeks has been dropped from the title of
this Top Ten list. I'll just keep doing it weekly, and I have plenty of
links to my portal
to let people find the most recent one or look at them in chronological
order.

With the Closed Beta for Atlantica
Online being offline,
I spent most of my gaming hours on Dungeon
Runners this week. But I did manage to try out style="font-style: italic;">Cabal Online.

I'm not through playing around with it yet, but I can give some
off-the-cuff observations here. First the music is rocking. End of
story. Hard guitar riffs, banging drums, fast tempos--the music in style="font-style: italic;">Cabal get your
heart beating faster. The starter area presents a world that feel
post-apocalyptic. The fighting worked like most other games but had a
faster feel to it. It's hard to explain in a few sentences. Let me play
it another week or two and write some coherent thoughts.

For right now, it's better than some games that have made the Top Ten,
but I am not ready to replace anything on the list this week.

The List

I only have two big changes for this week. First, style="font-style: italic;">Warrior Epic drops
to the #10 slot. That game is generating no buzz right now. The
non-disclosure agreement (NDA) stops me from telling anybody what the
beta is like (or even whether my silence is a good thing or a bad thing
for the game). If people aren't excited about the game, does it have a
future? I sure do like the features promised on the website.

The other change is that Wakfu
is dropping to #9. Despite the optimism expressed by Ankama's
International Marketing Assistant in a href="http://tentonhamster.com/node/2102">recent interview
featured exclusively on TenTonHamster.com, I just see a game that is
trying to make too many massive changes before launch. Look at this
way: Ankama still has not lifted the NDA on their closed beta, and the
game is set to release before December. Again, the NDA prevents me from
telling anyone whether or not the game is good--or even whether or not
my silence is good for the game or bad for the game.

Next week, I will continue playing style="font-style: italic;">Cabal Online, and I
will try out Archlord.
Plus, my sources indicate that the Atlantica
Online beta will begin again soon. I can't wait.

Here are my Top Ten Free-to-Play Games for this week..

Disclaimer:
The opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed are those of the author
and do not necessarily reflect the opinions, beliefs and viewpoints of
the Ten Ton Hammer network or staff.

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