all games are not created equal

If you like MMO games especialy the FREE to play better than pay to play ones. Then here are 2 really nice free MMO's. Silkroad takes place as a historical MMO either choosing to start in China or Europe. Each starting point has its own Characters to choose from, and you can customize your character in height, Choose what weapon your character will be weilding ( usualy defines their class ). You however dont have controll over hair color. or hair style. You have a little customization for the clothes. but not much for the begining.

In 2 Moons you have 6 classes, each being a different character, 3 of which being male, and the other 3 being female. I saw this as a drawback but the game later fills that void with the overdramatized VIOLENCE. You dont have realy any controll of customization of your character till after you start playing the game. you choose a class, read the specs on that class, and start playing with basic armor.

Quests:

In Silkroad the quests are very very repetative... "Kill 50 (insert monster here)" or "collect 10 (insert item here) which can be found by killing the (insert monster here)" The story behind the quest always leads up to you killing a certain number of monsters. Which that doesn't seem to help because of monster respawn. "hey I just killed you all, i guess the village will be safe now... Oh you respawn?.... well at least I got the points"

In 2 Moons The quests are a little more complicated Which makes it a lot more fun though it does have those certain quests where it tells you to kill a certain number of monsters... there are other quests that want you to take a nice long journey just to get to another NPC. These quests not only give you the experience of exploration, but also give you XP for the monsters you'll have to face.

Buildings:

In Silkroad all the buildings look .. oversized. i mean walk up to a door and its almost like a friggin giant could fit through. this makes it seem a little unrealistic.

In 2 moons all the buildings look decent. they're a good size. makes the game look more "populated" if you will.

Leveling up

In both games Leveling up becomes a challenge but 2 moons takes the cake with a level cap of 150. Right around level 30 is when it take practically all day to get to level 31 and so on and so forth. Placement of points into your characters skills is a bit confusing at first, if your new to that kind of stuff you may have to make a new character to get the best out of that class. 2 moons doesn't let you go back and reset your int, str, dex... or anything of that matter.

Weapons and Armor:

2 moons has a very large selection of weapons and armor. And its a good way to get yourself to train for that next level. because each piece of armor is one level above the other, for example: say you want the next set of armor and the legs of that armor are for lvl 8 or something like that. The next part of the armor would be 1 lvl above that, so you can always anticipate the next level ahead. until you get the full set of armor then you have to wait a decent amount of levels till the next armor type.
Weapons are basically the same And they are abundant.

Silkroad has a very small selection of armor for the first few levels. I haven't played the entire game for it gets long and boring. But I do know that the armor shop only has 3 armor sets for each class. And the weapons shop doesn't get any more rewarding. So its not really THAT much to look forward to.

Money:

Silkroad and 2 moons have decent amount of currency that monsters drop. 2 Moons gets more abundant though

Herbs in Silkroad are more expensive than the healing potion in 2 moons, so money gets tight in Silkroad. I easily can obtain a large sum of money and keep it a large sum of money on 2 moons.

Longest review I've done....

Edit: HOLY COW! I forgot to mention the BEST part of 2 moons

If you like blood and gore and i mean. like totally unneeded but still awesome blood and gore. Then 2 moons is the game for you. If your using dual blades then it gets pretty messy. blood splattering everywhere. and then the way you kill your enemies. most the time sliced clean in half.

The music in this game is very good, and the camera angle is FTW.

I Stopped playing 2 moons for the reason that Acclaim decided they wanted to put ads Everywhere. Usually I would enjoy what the loading screen for each new map looked like. But now with all the ads that pop up, I cant enjoy that art. Maybe they've fixed it now. There was a way to turn the ads off last time I played. But if you did. You lost that 10% bonus XP from having it on.
( I'm going to pick this game back up when I get my new system )

I stopped playing Silkroad because It got way to repetitive. It was fun to play with my friend. But you can only be entertained for so long before your like "you gotta be kiding me".