DOT HACK GU

Welcome to the World.....

this game has a fun history with me. the sense and logic of the gameplay seems absurd. the whole concept is to imitate an actual mmorpg except its not actually online with other players to interact. honestly it sounds so stupid. especially since you can just go out and buy a real mmorpg...atleast that's what i thought.

There were four original games b4 GU that came out a while back. that's how it all started...

the addiction, dot hack slowly began to take over my life, i couldn't explain it. meeting pple in the game was exactely how it was online, just better. you get a desktop in the game, you have email, to chat with etc..., then you get desktop pics, music to go along with it, you can go on forums and read posts and internet sites. its like a whole diff. world. I was compltely sucked in.

the another aspect that gets me, (because i love cyberpunk stuff) is that the internet game is bugged and slowly, there are abnomilies taking place like hacking and cool stuff like that, which is unexplainable to the gamers playing the game. if this hack or virus gets you in a form of something, in real llife you are sucked into a coma which cannot be solved medical yet, so you are a vegeatable. that sparks my fancy. and i love it, playing the hero, and solving the hacks yo. guys love being the hero. anyway. i haven't even beaten the second game, because all the four first games should have been summed up in one game, but they spread it out, this was a super bad move. but i still pay and buy the games because of the cool storyline and gameplay.

but now onto GU , the new game. the grapics are now updated to a more slicker looking cel shaded graphics. it took a while to get used too, but it's decent, and doesn't distract the game play with the new shift in style, i really like cell shaded anyway.

in this game you can actually visit the forums, and go online to watch news movies which is really fun for interaction. then the new features allow you to join a guild and become an owner and leader of one. you get the ablility to to a job adaption to for your online character to make him upgrade armor and weapons , which is cool. There's also a battle arena town to where you challenge other groups to duke it out. it's great. and addictive. the main character in this game isn't as cool as 'kite' in the other games, but he works. the other characters i found to be annoying and i didn't care for them, but you can find a few to hang out with, it's not that bad. the only problem is there's a guild member that is so annoying and always being a crybaby and won't grow up, i wish i could shoot him in the face. other than that nobody is really that unstandable. the voice overs are very good too., top notch, you get to hear vash's voice again too.

the music is a little better then decent. not as good as the first game, but fine.



i highly reccomend this game if you're a loser and dont care plus i'm a huge fan of the dude who drew the first char.s for the game, the man who did the evangelion manga. he's great. , i didn't stop playing for two days straight, but the downside is it's shortness, i beat it in about 19 hours, but if you wanna do all the quests and missions and new stuff, i've talked to pple that play for about 60 hours or so, it's fun. don't miss it. i wanna find out more about shino anyway. look out for the next two games coming out later prob. next year for the rest of the series.