Neat yet Needs Polish

Really, Darkfall has a lot of neat ideas. They certainly won't appeal to everyone, and if you are a casual gamer in any way, avoid this like the plague itself. However, if you have an awful lot of free time, don't mind spending the time to skill up and travel over the world, and harsh penalties in an open PvP environment sound fun, then Darkfall has the potential to be a game you would be interested in.

Sadly unrealized potential. This is the sad truth of the matter: Darkfall is a game that is filled with great ideas and good intentions. Darkfall is a game that seems to fall short on just about everything it has, too. For having been in development for so very long, the game simply felt like an early beta build.

There's a lot of downtime, there's painfully few quests - although the gameplay is about straight PvP anyway - the interface is horrific, the animations are sub par and not well varied. Combat, as nice as it might sound, even felt pretty clunky.