Dark Age of Camelot

The Good
The style of art for this game was unique for the time. The cities were well done. The forests looked how they should. And for the most part the game was one big zone.

The Bad
This game was the most boring slot machine I have every played. The game consisted of walking up to a spawn with your friends, having a friend attack a creature, and then everyone else in the group pressing the same attack key repeatedly until said creature dies. And you would do this for 300 hours! The game highly touted its PvP, but that PvP was almost 100 hours into the game play for the lowest most non-complex tier. That is way too long for all but the most rabid of players. And the few players who reached the pvp battlegrounds reported that they were extremely buggy and impossible to defend.

The developers went thru many iterations of pvp design but could not save thus sinking ship. The extreme level dependency in pvp combat meant that unless you were willing to play for 8 hours a day, you wouldn't stand a chance. Even if there were 20 players a few levels lower than a single enemy that single enemy could easily wipe them out.

Finally, the hacking of this game was atrocious. Some high level players used 3rd party apps that let them hunt down lower level players, while evading the more difficult players. So the pvp lands degraded into a grief fest instead of quality pvp game.

The Bottom Line
If you want to grind your way thru 200 - 300 hours worth of static spawns this would have been the game for you. Expect to spend hundreds of hours standing in one place killing red badgers, just to graduate onto black badgers. After fighting black badgers for days, you then graduate onto fighting big skunks and thus the pattern repeats.

Finally, after running on this treadmill for hundreds of hours you can fight in pvp, only to discover that you can't possibly win a fight until you spend 100 more hours on that treadmill! And even if you take all of this time power leveling, you will still lose because of the hundreds of players who were hacking the game.

This game was a perfect example of an "exercise in futility".