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  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

Specs: Teen, Sony Online Entertainment, Role-Playing, Massively Multiplayer

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.0 stars Good

  Overall score: 6.6 (3.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 2.5 stars out of 3 reviews

The Bottom Line: RF Online has a compelling player-versus-player component, but the rest of the game is tedious and uninspired. Read review

Specs: Teen, CCR, Inc, Role-Playing, Online games - RPG (MMORPG), Fantasy, Massively Multiplayer

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.5 stars Very good

  Overall score: 7.5 (3.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Tera's fun combat has an immediacy that keeps you hooked for a good long while in spite of the game's bland questing. Read review

Specs: Mature, Bluehole Studio, Role-Playing

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.5 stars Very good

  Overall score: 7.0 (3.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Fun combat and great looks make DC Universe Online entertaining for a while, though various limitations keep it from being a long-term destination. Read review

Specs: Teen, WBIE, Role-Playing

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.5 stars Spectacular

  Overall score: 9.5 (4.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 64 reviews

The Bottom Line: Here is the online role-playing game you should play, no matter who you are. Read review

Specs: Teen, Blizzard Entertainment, Role-Playing, Online games - RPG (MMORPG), Fantasy

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.5 stars Very good

  Overall score: 7.9 (3.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 5.0 stars out of 1 review

The Bottom Line: PlanetSide was clearly the result of a lot of ambitious planning, but much of the game experience depends on technical stability and the performance of other players. Read review

Specs: Teen, Sony Online Entertainment, Role-Playing, First-Person Shooter, Sci-Fi, Massively Multiplayer

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  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

Specs: Teen, Square Enix, Role-Playing, Role playing game (RPG) - console-style RPG, Fantasy

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.0 stars Good

  Overall score: 6.5 (3.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 3 reviews

The Bottom Line: This fantasy massively multiplayer online game makes a great first impression, but almost every aspect of it devolves into a grind before you're even halfway to the level cap. Read review

Specs: Teen, NCSOFT, Role-Playing, Massively Multiplayer

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.0 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 4 reviews

The Bottom Line: Class flexibility, a solid infrastructure, and an element of unpredictability keep Rift from feeling like just another online fantasy game. Read review

Specs: Teen, Trion Worlds, Role-Playing

• CNET Editor rating:
  2.5 stars Average

  Overall score: 5.5 (2.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 2.5 stars out of 7 reviews

The Bottom Line: The space combat is short-lived fun, but everything else about this online role-playing game is bland and shallow. Read review

Specs: Teen, Cryptic Studios, Role-Playing, Online games - RPG (MMORPG), Science-fiction

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.0 stars Good

  Overall score: 6.0 (3.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 2.5 stars out of 2 reviews

The Bottom Line: While this online role-playing game may have been a hit for the PC and PlayStation 2, it feels very awkward and entirely out of place on the Xbox 360. Read review

Specs: Teen, Square Enix, Role-Playing, Massively Multiplayer

• CNET Editor rating:
  0.0 stars

  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 5.0 stars out of 1 review

Specs: Teen, ArenaNet, Role-Playing, Online games - RPG (MMORPG), Fantasy

• CNET Editor rating:
  2.0 stars Mediocre

  Overall score: 4.0 (2.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 2.0 stars out of 8 reviews

The Bottom Line: Square Enix's laborious online role-playing game is a step backward for the genre. Read review

Specs: Teen, Square Enix, Role-Playing, Role playing game (RPG) - console-style RPG, Fantasy

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.0 stars Good

  Overall score: 6.7 (3.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 5.0 stars out of 1 review

The Bottom Line: Unfortunately, Horizons offers little that hasn't already been done--and done better--by many other online role-playing games already on the market. Read review

Specs: Teen, Artifact Entertainment, Role-Playing, Massively Multiplayer Online, Fantasy, Massively Multiplayer

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.0 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Star Wars: The Old Republic isn't the next step in online role-playing games. Instead, it's a highly entertaining refinement of what has come before it. Read review

Specs: Teen, BioWare, Role-Playing

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.5 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 5.0 stars out of 1 review

The Bottom Line: Cataclysm doesn't improve World of Warcraft as dramatically as the free update that preceded it did, but it's still a great expansion pack for anyone with high-level characters. Read review

Specs: Teen, Blizzard Entertainment, Role-Playing, Online games - RPG (MMORPG), Fantasy

• CNET Editor rating:
  2.0 stars Mediocre

  Overall score: 4.7 (2.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: For Shadowbane's population of player-versus-player aficionados, the expansion doesn't seem to do much, nor does it do enough to compel new players to get into the game. Read review

Specs: Teen, Wolfpack Studios, Role-Playing, Massively Multiplayer Online, Fantasy, Massively Multiplayer

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.5 stars Very good

  Overall score: 7.5 (3.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 1 review

The Bottom Line: Experienced role players will enjoy the engaging combat and diplomatic gameplay, in spite of Vanguard's litany of bugs and singular focus on group adventuring. Read review

Specs: Teen, Sigil Games Online, Role-Playing, Massively Multiplayer

• CNET Editor rating:
  2.0 stars Mediocre

  Overall score: 4.0 (2.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 1 review

The Bottom Line: Tedious quests and little payoff make this Korean massively multiplayer online game a real grind. Read review

Specs: Teen, IMC Games, Role-Playing, Massively Multiplayer

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.3 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 5.0 stars out of 1 review

The Bottom Line: Asheron's Call 2 is a highly streamlined, highly accessible online RPG. Yet the world of Dereth seems bare for a number of reasons. Read review

Specs: Mature, Turbine Inc., Role-Playing, Massively Multiplayer Online, Fantasy, Massively Multiplayer

• CNET Editor rating:
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  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 2.5 stars out of 1 review

Specs: Teen, CCP, Role-Playing, Online games - RPG (MMORPG), Science-fiction

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.5 stars Very good

  Overall score: 7.6 (3.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: The balance of the changes is a well-rounded expansion with offerings for players of all levels. Read review

Specs: Teen, Sony Online Entertainment, Role-Playing, Fantasy, 1 Player

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.5 stars Spectacular

  Overall score: 9.1 (4.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: This impressive online role-playing game marks the dawning of a new era in a gaming genre that has steadily gained prominence since Ultima Online made national headlines in 1997. Read review

Specs: Teen, Mythic Entertainment, Role-Playing, Massively Multiplayer Online, Fantasy, Massively Multiplayer

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.5 stars Very good

  Overall score: 7.0 (3.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Fun combat and great looks make DC Universe Online entertaining for a while, though various limitations keep it from being a long-term destination. Read review

Specs: Teen, WBIE, Role-Playing

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.2 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 2.5 stars out of 2 reviews

The Bottom Line: Final Fantasy XI is an online RPG that manages to break the mold, if just barely--but, actually, that's no mean feat. Read review

Specs: Teen, Square Enix, Role-Playing, Massively Multiplayer Online, Fantasy, Massively Multiplayer