Shadowtale

Shadowtale is an amazing free action MMORPG with nice graphics that you can play right here in your web browser. Battle monsters, earn gold, gear up, and become powerful enough to defeat the Shadow Lord himself.



Unlike many MMORPGs, combat in "Shadowtale" can be influenced by skill, as you fight in real time using your mouse and keyboard, and can evade enemy attacks, utilize jumping, and perform combos and knockdown maneuvers.
Quests given in the game are familiar, and should feel right at home to both MUD aficionados and anyone who has played any sort of MMORPG in the last few years. You'll learn of some event transpiring, and go off to recover an item, find a person, or kill X of a random creature.

In the game, you can control your player in a 2D environment, but on a 3D plane. Much like classic sidescrollers, while the action predominantly involves moving right to left (or vice versa), you can go further back or forward, and mayn times areas you need to access will be down or up; once in the areas, of course, it's back to moving sideways.



Still, "Shadowtale" shows a lot of promise. It's a very unique game in the genre, it's playable in a browser (even if it does require a huge ongoing download), and it brings to mind the days of text-based MUDs and staying up all night awash in the green and black glow from the monitor. It won't compete with the bigger, flashier titles, but "Shadowtale" is certainly creating a niche for itself, and don't be surprised if you hear more about it in the future.

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Game website: http://www.shadowtale.com