Dreamlords

http://www.dreamlords.com

I bought into the Dreamlords game, you can pull the client and pay 19 odd euros and off you go. The idea of lunchtime web based management, readying yourself for evening 3d play really appeals to me. Sort of keeping the enthusiasm pot on the boil throughout the day. The web client is nicely done, if a little slow to respond. The 3d RTS client though is a bit rough around the edges (and I'd previously decided not to buy the game based on the fact it looked like another rough around the edges RTS game - and I've bought far too many of those in the past). I want to like it. But the first few missions/quests have been quite tedious. And many of the encounters on the starting map, are exactly the same. So the grind is there. If you want an MMO-ism. I've just got to the point where I can have some different units, but getting your cities off the ground seems to be a slow process. Being dumped into a guild by default was a bit of a shock, mainly because most of the guild spoke italian and not english. I've still got some hope left for this game, and a months play paid for, I intend to delve deeper... but I'm not sure it will ever climb out of the doldrums of curiosity rather than soar to the heights of Planetarion.