Albion Online review

Albion Online is an MMORPG sandbox game with an open world, where each player is free to do whatever he wants. The game has no quests and combat classes, but there is a deep system of crafting and free PVP. You can fight, build, mine resources, trade, and even grow crops on your farm.

Albion Online is an online role-playing game and a construction / economic sandbox. The first thing you should know about it is that it has a Full Loot system. This means that when you die, you lose everything in your inventory (except money). This prospect is scary, but it's not so bad. 

Albion Online doesn't have your usual character classes. You can't create a mage or a swordsman, you just create a hero that can become anything.

The fact is that in Albion Online, every item you put on your character adds certain skills and passive characteristics to it. You can easily put a knight's armor on a mage or turn an archer into an assassin by changing his weapon. There are no penalties for this.

However, there are limitations. The fact is that in Albion Online, character development is presented in the form of a huge achievement tree. The further up this tree you progress, the better things you will be able to create. And since in Albion Online, "you are what you wear," this is a key aspect of progression. For example, if you kill 5,000 monsters with a green bow, you can create a blue one, and so on.

There are no quests in Albion, not counting the training at the beginning of the game. You're free to do whatever you want here. Almost any object in Albion Online can be "taken apart for parts". You can gather cotton, limestone, ore, wood, animal skins, and more. All of these raw materials can be processed into resources for crafting.

By the way, there are no NPC traders and craftsmen in the game. Each shop in the city belongs to a particular player, and he dictates the price of a particular product/service. You can also open a shop by paying rent. Or you can buy your island and build shops there for free. Your island in Albion Online is like a separate urban sandbox and farming simulator. 

Conclusion

In general, the game is very worthy and deserves attention. But it has some problems. First of all, the camera always looks Top-Down, that is, it can't be raised. The graphics are frankly weak, although it was announced as stylized cartoonish. Crafting is interesting, but a couple of dozen hours of boredom. The exception - hunting for rarities in dangerous regions. And, of course, because of the huge online presence, there is often a queue to enter the server. You have to wait for 10 minutes to get into the game. Otherwise, quite a decent Sandbox MMORPG.