Yes, that makes me happy :)
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It looks good but turning/rotation is not as smooth as I'd like. No, it's smooth, it's just...it's like the Playstation. IMO Sony doesn't do a good job with graphical rotation of the landscape around your character. Nintendo do, and Blizzard got it with WoW, but there's something just a little off with the way the camera and your avatar rotates.
Combat (at least for now, and all I played was the trio of fuzzy critters and their pink Pet Squirrel) seems to be Turn-based moves inserted into Real-Time combat. I have a base attack but it comes with a cooldown timer, as do all of my other spells. On the plus side, I don't seem to run out of Mana...I'm not even sure I have Mana. The downside? I seem to be watching my Hotbar a lot, and I mean A LOT! so I can press the key for the skill which just finished its Cooldown. It feels very whack-a-mole'ish.
The one thing I really didn't like was not being able to Invert the Mouse's Y-axis. I play all of my games with quasi-FPS PoVs (such as the GTA series and MMOs) like I play my actual FPS games, that is with Pilot controls for Mouselook. When I push forward on the Mouse I expect my camera's PoV to go down or "dive", and when I pull back on the Mouse I expect my PoV to go up or "climb". I've been playing this way for 15+ years so it's second nature to me, it's one of the first things I notice and one of the first settings I want to change. Currently there is no way to Invert the Mouse's Y-axis and it feels very awkward to be restricted to this. I can play with Mouselook operating this way, but I'd rather not. Oddly enough there is an option to Invert (Flip) the Mouse buttons, but not an option to Invert the Y-axis.
If you want in the Closed Beta is still open (an open Closed Beta?) for another week and it's been just a couple of days since I put in for a Beta Key. Oh, wait, not it hasn't. I put in for a Beta Key Friday last week when I posted the link to Massively's review, and I got my Beta Key yesterday. That's about a 5-day turnaround so if you apply for a Beta Key today you might get one by Monday (or not, or maybe earlier) giving you just a few days to try the game for yourself.
I also downloaded the Warhammer Online client as it now has a Trial very similar to that of Wizard 101, that is, a permanent, never-ending Trial but with access to low-level content only. But that's okay with me. There's a lot of characters and classes to try out in WHO (or WAR, or whatever its acronym is) so that will keep me busy for a while, and lest we forget, there's still DDO :)
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