![]() In a desperate attempt to avoid extinction, most of the remaining Itani build a ship and fly away from the insanity.At the same time, some Itani members and even some Serco, all of whom protest the war and never got onboard with either side, create some independent cities. However, the Serco begin a great offensive in 2661, and end up nearly wiping out the Itani. A great war breaks out in the year 2651, and in the early years and battles, the Itani takes control. Meanwhile, another group, called the Itani, doesn't think messing with nature is in everyone's best interests.As always, conflicts of interest lead to conflicts of weapons. One group, called the Serco, thinks it's best to change people at the genetic level to make them more resistant to the slightly different features of Terra II compared to Earth. A long time to go without something from Starbucks, huh?So the people end up getting divided about how to deal with things on Terra II. After it gets somewhat colonized, the wormhole dies and can't be reopened for another two million years. ![]() People go exploring space, and they find a wormhole that leads to a planet as habitable as Earth called Terra II. It would be a disservice and take too long (not to mention serious copyright infringement) to go into details, of course, but the following are highlights.Sometime in the 23rd century, life on Earth is milk and honey. The timeline follows the colonization of planets as humans expanded out from Earth in 2140 AD. Literally 90% of the manual (54 pages out of 60) is back story. Vendetta Online is all about deep, dark space. StoryThe premise is very deep and detailed, which is extremely cool. And unfortunately, as it is, VO suffers from almost every disease that can plague an MMO. We have to rate and critique a game as it is. VO is a great example of the starting block of a game, and in time (due to its online nature), it may very well evolve into the second coming of MMOs.However, we can't rate a game on what could have been or can be (indeed, if we did, every title here would score a perfect 10, even Extreme Paintbrawl). Not because it's an MMO, but because, to paraphrase a cliché, we can't give points for effort. Oh man… it's so hard to review games like Vendetta Online. ![]()
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