Order & Chaos Online first impression review on iPad

Order & Chaos is a MMORPG for most iOS devices.

The game is made by Gameloft they are pretty much known for taking popular console or PC games and making a similar game for your mobile device.  There are allot of people that complain about this.  But I for one am happy they do this because you get very ambitious games like this.  Also they do a pretty decent job at it.  This game will be mainly compared to a little game call World of Warcraft.

Order & Chaos Online is $6.99 in the App Store.  This comes with 3 months of online subscription.  As far as I can tell you can not play this game unless you have an active subscription. After the 3 months you will need to pay monthly at 99¢, 3 months at $1.99, or 6 months for $2.99.  I don't feel this price is to much if they are able to keep people interested and able to provide new content.


The game contains 4 races Human, Elf, Orc, Undead.  You can then choose between male or female.  Then you can choose your class Warrior (good we weapons and armor), Mage (powerful spell caster), Monk (important healing skills), Ranger (good a ranged weapons). When you get to customizing it seems a little limited.  So not sure how many configurations of characters you are going to see out there.

The controls are fairly standard for this kind of 3rd person view you have.  The left side virtual thumb stick controls your characters movement.  You can swipe just about anywhere else to look around.  On the right you have your options for attacks and spells and jumping.  


Menus are pretty straight forward.  You can look at your Bag it contains your items.  Under Character you see what clothing, armor, weapons you have equipped.  Quest is where you can select or view and drop quests you have accepted.  Spells is where you can change the spells you are using also under Talents you can upgrade your talent tree.  I have not gotten much into the Social or Team options but will try them out soon.

Graphics on this game are decent but I was expecting better.  The game is compatible with multiple iOS devices so maybe that is why graphics seem a little low rez. I see a fair amount of pop-in when running around.  Also I am running this on the iPad 2 I would like to see some use of anti aliasing or something to take advantage of the power.  Animations look ok but but there is not a whole lot of them.


I don't have allot to talk about game play other then it seem to be pretty standard getting a quest and doing what you need to finish it.  I am hoping there is some good variety in the quests.  I really don't want it to be come a grind fest.

I believe this is a game that will keep me playing for a while.  I have never jumped into a MMORPG because I don't want to get tied to a PC for hours at a time.  I think maybe if this is something I can pickup and play for 15 to 30 minutes it might be a big win in my book.  After I get some more time into this game I will post a full review.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/order-chaos-online/id414664715?mt=8