RuneScape Review: A Look Into RuneScape

If you wish to read up on all the skills that RuneScape Gold has to offer please visit the manual.

The Ring of Honor
PVP in this game is handled differently than most. There are certain worlds marked as PVP. In these worlds you can be attacked anywhere at any time as long as you're outside a safe zone (a place where you cannot be attacked by anyone. You spawn here when you first enter a PVP world. Safe zones and PVP zones are designated by an icon on your screen). Also, you're still flagged even if you run into a safe zone for 10 seconds. Normal death rules apply except if you're 'skulled'. You become skulled if you're the first to initiate combat. If you're skulled, you drop everything. When you kill another player you don't get what they were wearing but rather a market value item of the wealth they were carrying. How long you've been pvp-ing and the wealth you're carrying also affects what will drop.

Alongside this there are PVP mini-games. Such as Castle-war, Clan-wars, and Duel arenas. In Castle wars you choose red or blue and it's like a 'capture the flag' game. But with catapults, barricade building, and other things. No death penalty. Clan-wars is just as it sounds. 1-100 combatants on each side. You can choose to have a safe match or a death penalty match. In Duel Arenas players challenge each other can set rules such as: no running, no magic, no melee, no prayer, no food, etc. You may stake items in this mode and there's no death penalty.

Your friends and neighbors
The community has its own share of very helpful people to its scamming scum. The game offers forums for use by members and F2Pers who have earned 12.5m experience total. There is also quick-chat servers where players can only talk using a quick-chat system if you wish to avoid undesirables or to just have a quieter run through the game.

A place for everybody
There are different server types for different needs. PVP, Trade, Quick chat, and Normal are the common types. Some servers are used for specific activities as marked by the world list. Such as house parties, Castle wars, Role-playing, and many more.

And to wrap it all up
Overall, I would recommend this game for at least one play-through. I also highly advise you find or make a friend who knows his way around this world, as it can be daunting at first.

Pros:
- Plenty of skills to keep you busy
- Easy to run on most computers and no download required so you can play from almost anywhere

Cons:
- Graphics (if you care about them)
- Can be overwhelming for new players
- Community can be unfriendly