By Danny "Ralsu" Gourley
Most games have about three hours to impress me, and
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Joymax only needed about 30 minutes--but I played for hours. After a
couple weeks of watching the ads for
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here at TenTonHammer.com, I was intrigued enough to write down the
title as one to investigate for my Top Ten Free-to-Play Games, a weekly
segment I put together for those who like to game for free. And it only
took one play session for Deco to make the list. Read on to find out
why.
Download and Installation
Before downloading any game, it's always best to check out the system
requirements. Deco
Online has modest system requirements, which are listed
below.
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Gamers can download
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Online
directly from the official
website. The download is 624MB.The install size on my
hard drive is only 626MB despite what the system requirements note. I
don't know if it will download more content as I reach new areas, or if
the system requirements are just estimates that never came true.
Installation was simple. I just double-clicked the installer and
let it do the work. When it finished installing, I was able to login
using the account I had created during the download. After a short
patch period, I was able to play.
Character Creation
Character
creation for Dec Online
is a decision of might or magic. Players first choose a faction:
Millena or Rain. Millena is home to the physical fighters. Swordsmen,
Archers, Knights, Mercenaries, Slayers, and Snipers all come from
Millena. Rain has the magic users: Magicians, Shamans, Prominas,
Priests, Holy Avengers, and Psyches. I favor magic over might, so I
chose to make a character from Rain.
Next I was able to chose my gender and pick form a few spartan
customization options. I would call this aspect of
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bare bones. Each of the options (hair color, skin color, face, and
maybe eye shape) had four choices. With many other free games having
deeper options (and a game like Perfect
World having some of the best in any game anywhere), this
stands as a black mark against Deco.
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With limited options,
it's likely your character will look like somebody else's.
Interface and Controls
Deco drops
starting
players in a newbie area with tutorials to teach the basics of the
interface, combat, and inventory management. In addition to the dialog
box that encouraged me to talk to particular non-player character
(NPC), I could see that Nad Lucas (the NPC) has an big exclamation
point in the air to signify a quest.
I found I could walk by
clicking, the common method in many free-to-play games. A mini-map in
the top right of the screen noted the location of the NPCs near me. I
could see menu buttons in the bottom right to access my inventory,
character information, skills, and more. A hotbar for skills tied to
the 1-0 keys sat int eh bottom left. The chat box was above the hotbar.
In the top left corner was my character portrait with vital statistics.
Just right of it was a small row of four buttons, one of them labeled
for pet options.
There's
more to Dec Online.
Keep reading.
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