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1 You need this game, honestly.
Before I purchased this game less then a month ago I took the time to read all of these reviews. The ones ranting about how awesome and exciting this game is, are right. Gameplay is fun and exciting and with all the wheeling and dealing I do to get rare items trading online I feel like a used car salesmen. Like I said Ive only had this game a month, and Im level 117. Thats how addicting this game is! if your dedicated gaining levels and getting stronger is easy, I promise. Once you are happy with your level, explore the Battle and Challenge modes. I just earned my first challenge rank yesterday, woo! This game is worth everything you must pay or do to get it. And by the way you dont have to PAY to play offline, you simply must have xbox live. The first 2 online months are free anyway, give it a try! Once your online feel free to look me up, my legitness will guide you on your way through the PSO world. BUY THIS GAME!!!
2 Was nice but
I liked it but I was pissed to find out you had to pay, after I found that out I took it back to the store. And only a few people on a server also sucks.
3 PSO Rules
I just bought this game and it is awesome. Playing with people online is so sweet. I highly recommend this game.
4 WHAT!?
I am really mad now. WHY WOULD ONE HAVE TO PAY FOR XBOX LIVE TO PLAY OFFLINE. Boy i have some really nasty comments to say to the creators. Ya its a great game but paying to play offline is...not a good idea. eight dollars a month for a few years does not add up in your favor. and i almost bought it...jeesh
5 crappy game
Well I think this game would be cool if you didnt have to pay to play online. man I already payed for the game once. Im not going to pay to play it online. thats just bull crap.
6 comme le jeu sur dreamcast plus les frais...
ce jeu est pas mal ressemblant a la version de dremacast , pas grand amelioration graphique. aussi le probleme est que l on dois payer 9.99$us par mois pour jouer en plus de devoir etre inscris a xbox live. ca fais cher pas mal pour un seul jeu. je ne le recommande pas a moins que vous soyez un grand fan de ce jeu.
7 Phantasy Star Online
product arrived 2 day after ship date! excellent condition and prompt delivery.
8 The Neverending Story of PSO
If you are not really sure about purchasing this game and you need a helping hand that tells you more about the game story line,well you better read this prewiew...The game PSO(Phantasy Star Online epi. I & II)its the most AWESOME game experience EVER!!! this game allows you to create a character in which you can change hair color,body shape, well everything. If you buy the game you won't be able to stop playing it, is like you are inside of the game playing all the time!!!! this game for me is the best on markets right now; The graphics (on the Xboxconsole ) are just amazing,there are so many beautiful special effects that, you'll be surprised in about how well done this game is. This game is 100000000 times better than the SEGA version, you should buy this you will never be disappointed about it and you'll love it !!!!!!!! buy it and get ready to have funnnnnnnnnn.....
9 Horrible Game
This game is possibly the worst game i have ever played. The gameplay is incredibly boring and not fun at all. I played this game for about ten minutes and it made me want to throw up. I don't know about you but i think it is horrible,do not buy this game. If you want a good game buy Deus Ex 2 or for a good computer game buy Dark Age of Camelot.
10 Caution!
This game is a tight game but it will only allow you to play it if you have xbox live. Even if you play offline u need an xbox live account
11 SHUTUP, NO WAY
WWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, PSO is awesome, omg, you have to get it, dont bother reading all the other reveiws because they all say the same thing(exept for the stupid people who think PSO is crap, but thats only like 2 people), and that is PSO RULES, QUIT WASTING TIME, GO BUY IT, STOP READING, I SAID STOP, YOUR STILL WASTING TIME, QUIT!!! GO BUY THE GAME!!
12 Best Game Ever CREATED
Millions of weapons. Make your own character. CO-OP and Counter-OP play. Great with 4 people online or offline. I've played the game for over 4,000 Hours and it's great. A complete and total must buy. One player is also fun.
13 the best x box game
this is my favorite x box game ever!!! you can play in episode 1 and 2. i've beaten episode 1 easily. i'm not ever gonna beat episode 2. it's too damn hard! when you create a charecter you can choose between a hunter a magic dude(i forgot what it was called) and some other thing. i chose a hunter and i kicked ass
14 THIS GAMES ROCKS
ok. the first time i got this game i loved it. i played on the main RPG for hours, only to get the the 2nd boss. All during fathers day i spent moer time with my Xbox then with my dad (i know. its sad) The 2nd day i had this game, i got the hunter licsense. im under age for paying for Xbox Live, so my dad doesn't know i did that. I played for hours agian. But a bad thing is for each level, there are stages. For the 2nd stage, there are 3 stages. If u save and ur on the 3rd stage, ull start back at the 1 stage. Its stupid. I was on the 3rd stage and that happened... i dunno y that happens. Only line is the best because u talk to people who are humans not computers. All together this game rocks and is worth its price!
15 FUN FUN ...WARNING
I warn you. This game will take over your life.
16 Damn this is soo fun
ok at first i played this game i was like what the hell is going on i didnt know what to do it seemed boring and stuff like that. I kept playing more and more and i got addicted i played it one day for about 5 hours straight im never this addicted to a game once you play the game you get hooked and you cannot stop playing and im happy i bought the game because im hoooked i mean the graphics arent like GREAT but they are pretty good i like the game play and how the game gets you hooked but if your doing finals in school make sure you get this game when summer starts because you will be hooked. Trust me
17 Did it freeze AGAIN?!?!
This game is the funnest one i have and i would play it all the time but im a little frustrated right now. My game has freezed so many times!! I am getting sick of it. I am going to buy another copy to see what happens. Wish me luck...
18 Simply the best game available on the Xbox, hands down.
This is the one you have been waiting for (even if you didn't realize it) ... Get it now. Like no other game. Addictive, fun, easy to learn and play and INFINATE replayability. Oh, Yeah!
19 Simply the best game available on the Xbox, hands down.
Try it for the two month period (free) and I assure you (maybe I should say WARN you) that you will get hooked. I became an addict in the first 8 hours and have played it as often as possible, going without sleep even, since I got it. Amazing, simply amazing. It has given me a whole new way of looking at video games. I have about 20 games for the xbox and i haven't had ANY interest in playing the others (including Mech assault, Splinter Cell, Ghost recon and Halo ... all top shelf titles) since I met PSO. I am embarrased to tell my close friends (who don't have xbox's) how much time I spend playing Phantasy Star Online. Before PSO, I never, ever even played an RPG. Now, I AM HOOKED ... and lovin' it.
20 WTF was I thinking?
I recently reviewed this game and gave it one star because you had to pay to just play off-line. What a JACK... I was. But then I thought for a moment, gee if this was a perfect world every game would be free. I mean you have to buy any game to play it. But this isn't a perfect world. All you need is XBOX LIVE to play off-line, which should be no problem because there cannot be anyone who only wants XBOX LIVE to play one game online. Plus this game is $, $10 less than games normally cot brand new which makes paying a little to play online even smaller.
Now to the game itself. Whoever missed playing PSO and PSO version 2 back in the Dreamcast days sure missed a lot. The first PSO game is extremely addicting. Heck, I had to play it off-line all the time I played it because my connections were screwed up and still had loads of fun going through the levels to gain experience to level up and to get more money to buy weapons. PSO version 2 on DC is even better. It had sweet new levels, more enemies, harder enemies, the Ultimate Level, a ton more rare items, and much more useful stuff that your character needed as well as loads of meseta (the currency in PSO). PSO version 2 is much more addicting as the first and I still play it a lot, still off-line and still having loads of fun. The XBOX version includes all of the things that made the Dreamcast versions so fun and addicting and expands it. The online version is still better than ever, the levels are still just as fun and often times more fun that the DC ones and leveling up is easier with more enemies and more to combat online. The off-line mode is great too and includes some quests for each time of character that earn you a lot of meseta. Forget what I said before, THIS GAME IS WORTH THE EXTRA MONEY TO PLAY ONLINE!!!!!
Go out and buy this game. If you enjoyed the Dreamcast versions, you will LOVE this!
21 Highly Addictive...
12:30pm 4/16/2003.....was my 1st day sitting down with this game, fresh from the game store and into my XBOX ready to go. Took less 3 min to get online. Your 1st 2 months are free, so there isn't no charge to your credit card until then. It's an easy set up because it charges the card you set up your XBL with. Another 10 min to set up my fighter(a ranger)and 15 minute more in the lobby intruducing myself to everyone, learning the tricks & message system(you got a headset now, the typing isn't needed).....I was ready to battle
7 hours later (seriously.....I shocked myself I was on it that long), I had manage to reach level 12 and called it a night. I'm at level 31 now......my lady is upset (all those with significant others and XBOX Live, share my pain), my dog sniffs me for recognition, my phone is turned off. The addiction gets worse when you log on and you see one of your friends has manage to get a higher level than you. I'm hooked for now....
THIS GAME IS WORTH THE MONTHLY FEE. Any head who played the Dreamcast(r.i.p.) version, this game didn't miss a step, only gotten a lot better.
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22 Great online RPG fun for the XBox
Phantasy Star Online is out for XBox Live. You can play single player and enjoy the challenges, or go online and play with up to four other players. The plot is pretty simple - refugees from a dying planet head out to join a colony on a distant planet. When they get there, the colony has been wiped out, and you have to figure out why.
To start with, this can be played like a single player RPG. You can choose to be human, newman, or a robot. You can be male or female, and of three classes - the 'hunter' swordfighter, the 'ranger' distance fighter, or the 'force' magic users. You've just begun to customize!
You can customize everything from face look, hair style and color, outfit, skin color, and body proportions. You can't actually choose clothing styles like in many other RPGs - you just change the color and look of it. Still, your character is pretty tweaked to your own style before you enter the world.
The aim in local play is to build up your character. You can play in "Episode 1" - where you roam the planet looking for clues as to what happened to the original colonists. You can also play "Episode 2" which is sort of a parallel timeline, where you work for the government and try to contact a hero from the original colony.
Like most RPGs, you build up experience by killing the enemies, and gather money ("meseta") so you can buy bigger weapons ... so you can go kill bigger things. You have a little robotic buddy, "mag", which also gains experience and power as you go.
Once you've gotten the hang of things, it's time to head on line and join up with a party! This is sort of a mini-MMORPG, a training ground for those not quite online yet. You go through the lobbies to find a group of people to play with. You can start a new group or join a group already questing. And then it gets fun!
The XBox live microphone makes it easy to coordinate attacks without the clumsy typing-while-fighting system that most MMORPGs require. Simply call out "I'm hurt!" to get healing, and coordinate attacks with ease. Since XBox Live is only for high speed connections, we haven't run into any lag while playing. Gather up experience, explore new worlds, and make fun friends in the process!
Highly recommended for XBox RPG fans who enjoy console-based RPGs and want to take it to the next level.
23 A very entertaining game
My personal favorite online game. Not as boring as Everquest, not as hack-and-slash as Diablo. Plus has great graphics and awesome dungeon music. Fun to create your own character and collect and trade rare items, dodge PKers, and go on adventures with friends. I think Sega should persue sequels to the PSO series instead of Sonic; it's that good.
24 not able to play without....
i would have given this 5 stars but you need xbox live to play it even if your gana play it in offline mode
25 Greedy Microsoft won't let you play offline WITHOUT paying
That's right. To simply play Phantasy Star Online for your XBOX off-line you must pay. No not just for the game, but you have to also purchase XBOX LIVE. It's no problem if you want to play other games online already, right? Wrong. Because greedy Microsoft made it so you must use XBOX LIVE to simply play off-line the game is very slow and choppy off-line. Online is great but as I said before you must have XBOX LIVE plus pay ANOTHER fee to play this game online. To tell you the truth this is a great game (I own it as well as Phantasy Star Online version 2 on my Dreamcast), but beware you have to shell out about $115 to get started playing the game online or off-line plus an additional charge each and every month. The gameplay is choppy off-line and there are many other problems with this. To be perfectly honest, if you want Phantasy Star Online, buy it as well as PSO version 2 for Dreamcast (both are excellent games and made by Sega which doesn't want to steal your money for pointless reasons). In the DC version PSO version 1 is free to play off-line and online and PSO version 2 is free off-line and has a small fee (less than that of the XBOX version) to play online.
26 Are the extra fees really worth it?
There is something special about this game. Not just in the game itself, but in the community you are drawn into when you play online. You meet incredible people with the same intrests as you have.
I'm sure by now you have heard all about the money that will be needed to play, online or off. But if you are like me, you will do anything to play this game again. I dont currently have a highspeed connection to play online, but i am getting one soon. If there is no way you can get a high speed connection to play online, I say pass, because honestly, the game itself is not worth both the combined purchase price of the X-box live starter kit and the game:$... But if you are even considering getting a high-speed connection some time in the near future, pick this one up fast.This is going to be a special online community that will last a very long time to come. See you online (in about a month when i finally get DSL)
27 FUN
This game rocks. You cant put it down you just want to keep playing it and playing it forever and ever. I highly recommend that you buy this game especially since its only [$$]!!!
28 You're kidding.
Youre kidding me that PSO is finally coming out for XBox? do you even have the slightest idea what good gaming is?!? This game is the single greatest game i have ever played, and i will get it and pay all the fees regardless. If i could, i'd give it 100 stars. This game will have you turn it on right after school, and suddenly you'll have your mother stomping into the room at four o'clock the following morning saying, "What are you doing up?" as you think to yourself... 'where did the day go?!' yeah thats right. PSO ALL THE WAY!
29 This gmae is sweet.
When it came out on the dreamcast it was the best gmae ever and sense it is the same but with new wepons, monsters, and levels it is going to be better than the first.
30 Say No to Extra Fees!!
I love my Xbox and I have Xbox live but there is no way I will be paying extra fees for this game. I bought Xbox Live and was told that it would be one fee for the year. Now they're telling me that some games will have extra fees like this one. It's a joke! What's even worse is that you need Xbox Live even if you plan to play only offline. You may be thinking why would you do that? It's not right that they are forcing you to pay for Xbox Live even if you only plan to play offline with some friends. Don't forget that this version of the game will not allow you to play with people in other regions thereby limiting the number of total players. I'm a big PSO fan but I'm not getting this game for the Xbox. The only Live games I'll buy will be ones without extra fees. I've already decided to pick up a GameCube so that I can play this game and play it with people all over the world.
31 Best.Game.Ever
Come and enter a world of Phantasy...
Quite a few years ago SEGA made an RPG named Phantasy Star for their Genesis console. I can't remember much about it but I do remember something about a hot chick with horns and something about an epic storyline. The game was apparently successful enough to spawn a few sequels that by my recollection, were actually quite good. A decade or so passed until SEGA finally decided to resurrect their seemingly defunct series and thus Phantasy Star appeared on the Dreamcast. There was a twist though, the game would be far more epic than the previous entries, so epic that it could only be contained in the online realm. Interestingly enough the game was successful despite the unpopularity of the Dreamcast console and thus a sequel was born. A year or so has passed and the game has found a home a next generation console. Now that it's actually on a system that sells, the world will be able to discover what so many people already know, that Phantasy Star Online is in fact one of the most impressive and addictive titles to hit the scene in quite some time.
Forget everything you know about the Dreamcast endeavor because those days of instability and shakiness are long gone. Let's say this as bluntly as possible, Phantasy Star Online is [highly addictive]. ... Your sessions will usually start out as "hey let's just play for a while to kill some time" and will evolve into "dammit, I need to level up just one more time! I'm so close!" Six hours later and you'll be wondering to yourself exactly where your day went.
Much of the game remains unchanged with the main change coming in the controller layout. You still have three primary buttons, two attacks but the communication button will not be in the Xbox version due to the Xbox Live headset.
As stated you have the two attacks, one is a quick attack while the other is a more focused attack. When you begin you select your character class (which basically boils down to easy, medium and hard difficulty). The easy class features warriors proficient in close quarters, medium has rangers that fire projectiles while the hardest features wizards. Obviously beginners shouldn't jump into the game with the third class as they will have their proverbial asses handed to them.
32 Looking forward to it
I have this game for GCN amd I can't wait for it to be on X-Box so i can play against my friend online.
