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By Danny "Ralsu" Gourley

style="font-weight: bold;">About This List

Please refer to the href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/Top10F2P">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

This week, I played quite a bit of Rohan:
Blood Feud.
I really have nothing but good things to say. style="font-style: italic;">Rohan
has nice graphics, good music, a familiar user interface and controls,
interesting lore and a fun skill tree system. It also features some
very unique social options. Players caught botting or selling gold can
be put under a citizen's arrest and sent to a "jail." From the jail,
they cannot speak in global chat or gain experience.

With a tool
as powerful (and so open to grief) as this citizen's arrest component,
the onus is on YNK Interactive, the publisher for style="font-style: italic;">Rohan,
to be sure that the complaints are legitimate. Repeat offenders who
earn their imprisonment will be banned, of course--as will people who
wrongfully accuse the innocent repeatedly. The setup is aimed at
encouraging the community to police itself, but I did not get to play
with this tool. I wouldn't want to try it out without a developer
approving my use of it.

My early impression is that Rohan
has a solid tutorial and some fun starting quests that allow players to
get into the lore. The factional-based PvP elements are apparent early.
I'll try to bring Ten Ton Hammer readers some style="font-style: italic;">Rohan coverage in
the next week, but for now, I will just give you the overview from the
official website:

style="font-style: italic;">Rohan: Blood Feud
is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). The game
is a rich and expansive persistent online world, set on the continent
of Rohan. The land is full of quests to embark upon, from simple to
glorious. Friends and enemies will be made and lost, spectacular
battles will be fought, and an abundance of unique game features will
keep players on the edge of their gaming seats. There are many features
of the game that set it apart from more traditional MMORPGs, including:

REVENGE:
Players who have been slain in-game by another will have their killers
automatically recorded on their "Hit List". Once resurrected, the slain
can teleport to their killers for a chance at revenge.
TOWNSHIP
BATTLES: In-game groups - called 'guilds' - have the opportunity to
rule each town within Rohan. Other guilds may wage civil war with the
ruling guild, with the chance to gain control of their own. In addition
to treasure & riches, the right to tax all commercial exchanges
within the town for one week goes to the winner.
BUY & SELL
SAFELY: There are several ways in which players can buy and sell goods
within the game, including a website specially designed for
player-to-player transactions.

With my attention focused fully on Rohan,
I did not get a chance to play the copy of style="font-style: italic;">Rakion I installed.
I'll look at it again next week. I did go through a couple of quests in
the Holic
tutorial and decided that game is best left to our sister site, href="http://tentonhamster.com">Ten Ton Hamster.
It is very clearly aimed at young gamers even though the foundation
looks solid enough for older audiences.

Finally, with Rohan
coming onto the list, something had to drop off. For now, that game is style="font-style: italic;">Fiesta Online. That
is not to say Fiesta
is not a good game. I actually have enough quality titles here now that
it is getting pretty tough to contain myself to 10 choices!

The List

Coming up, I will bring readers some coverage of style="font-style: italic;">Rohan. I'll
make Rakion
a priority, too, and look one week for a functional download link for style="font-style: italic;">Perfect World
before giving up that search and looking at another game, style="font-style: italic;">Hero Online.

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

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