Vanguard Collector's Edition | 
 enlarge | From: Sony Online Entertainment
Category: Video Games
List Price: $59.99
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 1664
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp
Genre: role_playing_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Collector's
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 7.6 x 2.6
MPN: 41152
Model: 41152
UPC: 814582411525
EAN: 0814582411525
ASIN: B000JLMZRQ
Release Date: January 29, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 3-4 business days
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| Features:
| • | A vast and detailed world: Explore two large continents and an archipelago riddled with dungeons and adventures. | | • | Create and customize your character: In a world of thousands, carve your own unique destiny and appearance choosing one of 19 different races from Orcs and Goblins to Dwarves and Elves. | | • | 15 professions to choose from: Choose from one of 15 exciting professions including Paladin, Ranger, Sorcerer, Psionicist, Bard, and Rogue. | | • | Dynamic reactive combat system: Build chains of special attacks and reactions with Openers, Bridges, and powerful Finishing moves | | • | Dozens of unique mounts: With dozens of unique mounts to collect, you can race into battle on your warhorse, command the skies on the back of your dragon or join friends and embark on a sea-based adventure to discover faraway lands. |
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Product Description
In Vanguard: Saga Of Heroes, you'll face the challenges of a war torn world. Enter a vast, detailed world of swords and sorcery, of dragons and knights, of fiery swords and chests overflowing with treasure. Undead threats and elemental menaces are encroaching, and the land is in desperate need of heroes. Your journey into this world, and towards becoming a hero, begins now. Join a community of thousands of players online as you traverse a breathtaking landscape on the back of a dragon as you explore the grandeur of a world designed by the seminal fantasy artist Keith Parkinson. Create and customize your character from 19 races and 15 professions. Combat fierce opponents with a groundbreaking dynamic combat system that forces you to react to your opponents as you tie together devastating combinations of attacks. Challenge awaits the boldest of heroes! Special Collector's Edition Includes: Guild Kit, art book, cloth map, soundtrack CD and 3-month Station Player subscription -- plus a special Hero Card & in-game player item. Talk your way to the top - As a diplomat, cunning words are your most powerful weapon as you curry favor in centers of power Interactive tradeskills - Collect essential materials and use skills such as blacksmithing, alchemy and ship building to create valuable and powerful items Make Telon feel like home - Stake your claim on a piece of land and furnish your house with unique items
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 Still buggy, but what a complete experience! July 22, 2008
P. Exter (Philadelphia, PA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I avoided this game when it was released, like so many people, due to the widespread reports of near unplayability due to bugs and incomplete features. Now, over a year later, the game is having a renaissance. All of the major bugs have been fixed, all of the major features are in, and the game is such a complete experience.
Few MMOs have as many classes as this game while still maintaining class (and race) balance. Every class is fun and unique to play. When you don't feel like adventuring, you can do some diplomacy, which is a (fully optional) card game within the game, complete with its own set of levels and quests. Crafting is also a very complete third option, with crafting quests and levels as well. You can play the game for hours without killing a single monster and without getting bored.
Honestly, if you're bored of the other MMO's out there, I would strongly recommend giving Vanguard a look. The game has really shaped up to be the revolutionary experience they promised us pre-release.
 Game is OK, CE is decent June 21, 2008
Stephen Meyer (Pittsburg, KS United States)
Vanguard itself is your typical MMO. More often than not you're given tasks to defeat a certain number of enemies or to collect a certain number of an item and, just like all other MMOs, this entails the vast majority of what you'll be doing.
There are some exceptions, but they are the exception. It's pretty standard for the genre.
The technical performance of VG has improved significantly. The game stopping performance problems are long gone.
The CE has some decent extras, and considering the price that you get it for it is certainly worth it so long as you're okay with the game play itself. In fact, I would suggest not bothering with the purchase of the boxed retail copy of VG unless it's the CE.
I'm fairly burned out on the repetitive nature of the MMORPG genre as a whole so I'll leave my comments at this.
Finally something different in the MMO realm May 28, 2008
S. Denson (Atlanta, GA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you're bored with the never-ending grind of most MMO's, then Vanguard is the game for you.
Unlike any other MMO out now, Vanguard has three DISTINCT arenas in which to focus and level your character. Adventuring is the well-known grind of kill quests featured in every MMO. You have 15 classes to choose from and about as many races and starting areas. I think this is more than almost any other MMO.
However, if you're over the killing grind (as I am), then you'll really appreciate the other two ways to level (completely independant of your Adventure level): Crafting and Diplomacy. VG crafting is one of the most fun and challenging out today. It offers you choices during the actual crafting that effect the outcome, quality and possibly even your ability to finish a crafted item. Having the correct tools or utilities handy effects your choices.
Diplomacy is something not found in any other MMO. It's a social arena, and you 'combat' by playing cards, much like Magic the Gathering. Higher level diplomats can even grant city buffs, for Adventurers, Crafters or Diplomats, by winning enough parleys (the diplomatic combat) in a given city.
Either way, Vanguard offers pretty scenery, tons of classes to choose from (with not nearly enough character slots unfortunately), and something to do when you're sick and tired of just killing things.
 Dont waste your money March 2, 2008
Bobby Jack Busby (Iraq)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
graphics are very good and taxings *gf8800* but worth it
pve was fun but not a lot of end game content, grinding and standard quest just like eq but with more push towards quest for gear/exp, took me 2 months to get to lvl 50
game is hackable or at least it was 6 months ago, SOE did nothing about this cept temp ban
pvp is broke,just about every class has a "I win" button, 90% of the time who ever gets the jump wins
To me VG is nothing but a cash cow for SOE that was released 6 months too earily, it came out, they fixed some of the major bugs but left alot of minior bugs and with every patch they put out that tried to fixed the bugs, they would end up fixing 2 or 3 bugs but creating a dozen new ones *anyone remember when the paldians could spam redimtion, I remember it did around 1.5k dmg and had no refreash timer and this bug lasted for at least a month* I was on a pvp server think of the hell that bug caused. the game is missing just about all the good stuff that made eqI great and eqII so/so *eqI/eqII from 5 years ago*
Pass on it! November 3, 2007
J. Sorbello (New York USA)
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
Absolute Crap game. It's sad that a game released in the time of Massive MMO's is even allowed. Cannnot hold a candle to LoTRO or WoW.
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