Wizards101 Review

Gameplay

As far as controls and user interface goes Wizards 101 did a decent job of making everything smooth and pretty straight foreward to understand. The game presents itself as another typical World of Warcraft clone until it puts you into your first battle. The card battle system is a welcoming change to the MMORPG genre because it allows the player to have a more casual experience to the typical gameplay found throughout the game world at this moment in time.

The only thing that I would change as far as Wizards 101 is concernered is the background downloading of the game. Although this idea is a great way to get player into the game at a faster rate you run into the issue of having things that the player is not close to encountering downloading before needed. What I mean by this is, if you are on your way to a zone in the game and you are forced to stand and wait because that section has not been downloaded yet, you as a player are bound to get frustrated. Now in that same situation your notice that the piece a game that IS downloading has nothing to do with the area you are going to (which did happen to me while playing) you are going to realize that there is no structure to the order of what is being downloaded in order for the player to have a smooth game transition.

In my eyes the only two remedies for this include either just making the player to fully download and install the game or, restructuring the order data is downloaded by the game to allow the more important pieces that will be needed by the player to be installed sooner rather than later. This would allow for a smoother game transition for the player and help prevent the player from standing around and waiting just to get to another zone in the game.

Conclusion

Other than the downloading order, this game gives a unique experience that allows for a different kind a game experience while at the same time retaining the familiarity of todays game worlds. It allows players from across many age groups to be able to play together while keeping the younger players entertained while at the same time giving the older players a different game experience.

TALLIED SCORE!!!!!! (drumroll please)............................... 8.50/10!!!!

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