Shadowbane: Throne of Oblivion Expansion Pack review:1 stars (They Still have not learned!) - UBI soft still does not get it. Three things are killing this game and not one has been fixed.

Game performance is still bad. After two years lag should be very minimal but its still horrendous when you get a bunch of people on screen. Seeing how there is no content and PvP is what the game is about you will always be looking for other people to kill. Well once you find them expect the lag to be found also.

Content is just not there. You can't sell a game and expect people to buy it if the only content you provide is PvP. In a Role Playing game you have to level so unless you get xp from killing other players, you do not in shadowbane, you will have fight monsters to level. This is the place fun content comes in. Shadowbane only provides one kind of content and that is finding a place with tons of monsters and standing there for hours doing the same thing over and over. It gets boring and you have to do it to level, support a city, and repair your armor and weapons.

The last problem stems from the above two and is the real killer of the game. Hardly anyone plays the game. Its empty as hell and there are almost no new players. So when you start out and your totally new you find almost nobody to level with. most veterans that plat the game have their guild power level them so newbie island is dead.

I recently came back after UBI gave former players some free play time to try and win us back. I was shocked by what I found. Most of the old servers have been shut down because most people long ago left the game. The servers that were left had very low populations. Mourning and Wrath were the bigs ones but mourning only had about 300 people and wrath about 550 people at peak times. This is nothing for a game with a map as large as Shadowbane has.

They could have really used this expansion to fix many of the problems that caused more than 30k people to leave the game in less than a year. They instead used the expansion to fix nothing and created an overpowered race to try and force their remaining customers to fork over more money to compete. Very sad but it seems the way online gaming companies do business these days.

Stay away from this one! 1 stars (great game ruined by developers inability to fix problems) - I played Shadowbane for 2 years now and I finally got so fed up with the game that I quit

the thing that has haunted Shadowbane from day one is bugs and lag, and that is still very prevalent, most of the servers are empty now as Id say the total gaming population is about 1000 on 3 servers, so you get roughly 300 people running around looking for other people to fight since they cant actually find anyone to fight

I used to love this game with all my heart, I was a die hard player as another poster mentioned, I always hoped that one day shadowbane would live up to its potential, sadly that day will never come

It probably has the best CONCEPT behind any game, in that unlike evercrack it is competitive, the PVP is engaging and the idea of guild vs guild warfare with large consequences in a high stakes game of thrones is excellent, too bad this is not actually in game.

what is really in shadowbane is the ability to roll new characters to max level in a week, guildmasters with large citys but no guild, and people who roam the land ganking afk groups because thats what everyone does to level. the Player vs Monster combat is extremely sub par in reference to other games such as world of warcraft, and the pvp is frought with lag unless you turn your graphical settings to the bare minimum which makes the game look like my 3 year old cousins pasta after hes done playing with it or you have a supercomputer at hand. so basically if you like dying, losing millions in gold due to bugs, being greifed to utter oblivion, playing by yourself because noone else does, and doing player vs player action with 1 frame rate per second then play shadowbane

I recomend finding another game, counterstrike is rather good for the crowd that enjoys SB1 stars (I would avoid this game like the plague.) - It was the first MMORPG I had ever played. Suffice to say I was impressed with the Graphics, music, and many of the dynamics of the game. At first it was so horribly crippled by bugs, exploits, and griefers, that unless you were die hard....correction, even IF you were die hard about this game you quit. It had MANY servers when it launched, they had to shutdown MOST of the servers due to the immense number of people who quit the game.
Most of the ones still playing the game fit into 3 categories. Griefers, die hards, pvpers. Most likely they fit into more than one of these groups. If you like pvp sometimes, don't ever buy this game. If you have to go afk for any reason...LOG OFF.

This game is completely devoid of content, the leveling system is hysterical...you can get your level maxed out so fast and be afk the ENTIRE TIME. As I said before, though, afking in this game isn't smart...though if you are part of a huge guild and have the ability to guard your afkers, you are fine...if not, log off.

The PvP in this game seems intense...seems involving, and creative...it comes down to who has less lag, and which cheat they are using...that's it. Anyone who wishes to be a successful pvper in the game will have to be carbon copies of everyone else...its rare that you find a better template than anyone else...and even if you do, in a week EVERYONE has the same template anyways.

This game IS a griefer game...deny it all you want...2 things will be proven,...you are a die hard, you are blind. Most of the guilds in the game don't spend much time farming...what's the point? they can just farm YOU. Give you 2 hours to farm...they come back gank you, then take everything YOU spent time acquiring. In short, this game should be avoided like the plague...the servers should be shutdown, the developers, of this waste of bandwidth, fired.

From what I hear from my friends stubborn enough to still play this trash...its STILL bug ridden, STILL completely exploitable, STIL a griefer's game, and STILL a complete waste of money.
Shadowbane: Throne of Oblivion Expansion Pack Features:
Computer Games
Adventure
Strategy (Strategic)
Fantasy
Computer Role Playing Games (Game, rpgs, rpg, crpg, crpgs)
CD
Shadowbane and the Rise of Chaos expansion included
Exciting guild warfare and strategic city sieging
Brave 3 massive new adventure zones crawling with monstrous foes
New vampire race and disciplines; 5 new and updated classes
Enhanced siege engines, buildings, and roles

Shadowbane- Throne of Oblivion Expansion Pack is the CD-ROM version. The full version can be purchased by clicking on the "CLICK HERE TO ORDER" button below for around 19.99USD.