Preface this review: Over 200 hours wasted on this experiment. THEY ALL END THE SAME! THE ONLY WAY TO WIN IS NOT TO PLAY!
THE GOOD- using historic generals is interesting and developing technology is fun from the stone ages... for about 10 minutes... until you realize just how long anything will take because its timed and drawn out for days by design
THE BAD-
1 You start with the premise of completing tasks to unlock items... that is entertaining for about 5 minutes...until you get stuck on one of the challenges that has a bug and wont let you complete it
2 Then you build your town further, level your generals, and complete tasks...only to discover more tasks and a longer countdown clock
3 If your lucky you get drafted by a big powerful alliance... or your screwed. Plain and simple
4 big alliances are useful to level faster...FORGET ABOUT FUN! There is none to be had here
5 Plan and count on high level players in your alliance enforcing the rules and continually messaging you when you dont comply...
6 Even if you help the alliance, you will be kicked out and on your own again...time wasted
7 Putting in your time and effort to build your city and alliance on your own attempting to level faster...ONLY TO BE ATTACKED AND DESTROYED BY THE SAME BIG BULLY ALLIANCE that just kicked you out. Nice Huh! NOT
8 I had my kingdom of 6.7M destroyed by a 24M kingdom from the alliance that kicked me out...Down the drain in a flash...again the biggest alliance are the bullies by design
9 Sure you can shield your city from attacks...UNTIL YOU ARE OUT OF CEASE FIRE TOKENS...Then your screwed at the whim of the BULLIES and your bullied at will...AKA until you delete your account
10 To add to the "enjoyment" of being attacked and destroyed... they take your resources, capture your generals, and kill the other half... and to top it off, you have to be at level 25 to recover dead generals... seriously, who has time like that?
11 The program is flawed and not fun! Again the concept is fine if you want the group online experience and following rules like a real part time job enjoy...however this isnt the solo challenge experience application you are seeking... NOR IS THIS FUN ON ANY LEVEL BEYOND 5 MINUTES!

SOOOOO TRASH LAME AS ALWAYS!

The puzzles they advertise on are fun and some are challenging, but not really related to the game and not well developed. You get the same puzzles over and over. The game itself is a world building game. It is wonderfully complex. The graphics are terrible and there is no real animation. You play with people from all over the world and the translation system is pretty decent, so that aspect is awesome. You work a lot and probably spend a little money to build up a more powerful city and join an alliance and work together with new friends hunting monsters and competing with other alliances... until... one or a number of narcissistic, spoiled, immature rich kids get into your server. They buy immense power with loads of real cash and take over. They destroy whatever you have built, and take over the Server. World chat becomes inane, chlldish, and often extremely offensive chatter. Chat within your alliance is fun as long as you are lucky enough to find a very active alliance, The snerts send or ask for nude pictures of anyone they perceive to be women, proposition young girls, bully, destroy, etc. The entire game on that server becomes only for them. People quit by the hundreds and your new friends disappear as the server empties out and eventually dies because there is no one left for the bullies to bully. Then the rich shats move on to a difference server and ruin that one. It could be a great game if there were limits on how much power you can buy beyond what others have (the rich kids get are 100X or 1000X the power of others), limit the ability to destroy cities you attack, force more even matches. As it is, the game pretty much sicks unless you are a rich ashhat. Ivote "Avoid" There are better games out there.

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This game got very boring very fast

Ok lets get to the point, yes i play evony for the plain reason that i get to make new freinds and i also fell in love with this lass.

The only good things you get to do on this game is fight other players talk in with your alliance and in the world chat (when it is not out of control, that is very rarely anyway) so that sums up all the good things about the game.

Now time for the bad points.
1) the game does have the use of in game mods to keep the world chat clean and safe for unger players, i give the game a mark of 0 out of 10 for that.
2) when you report anyone for any of the rules you don't get a reply back so the game gets a mark of 0 out of 10 for that.
3) when you report a bug eg. Map not working right when moving along the admin don't care and won't fix it so they get a mark of 3 out of 10 for fixing bugs that appear in the game (since they do fix soom thats why i am giving then a 3)
4) when you are in the forums there is this tread for feedback and if you don't put possitive feedback down on it you get a temp ban for so long and it keeps getting longer untill the ban you for life, so this proves they don't want you give them them anything they have actully have to work to get fix or updated, they get a mark of 0 out of 10 for that.
5) when you a reading the treads you see that soom members of the forums have got temp ban's or are banned for life for telling the truth, this proves that they don't like the truth about the game being told to everyone so they ban you for it they get a mark of 0 out of 10 for that.

So over all mark for evony is a 1 out of 10 (1 being the worst 10 being the best, 5 makes it a ok game to play but evony did not even get a 2 never mind a 5)

The game is poorly managed and they are only in it to scam you out of your perants or your own hard earned cash, they say the game is free for ever but if it was free for ever you would not have to pay $30 to have a 30 day holiday if you wanted to have a break from the game ($30 gives you 300 in game cents, 10 cents aday to be in holiday mode), then you get all these system mails saying about these free packages they have, but you have to pay $30 to get these packages, the game is not free for ever otherwise they would let you go into holiday mode for free and give you the free packages for free and not charge you for them.

So i give you this warning if you decide to play this game, be aware when you ask for help from the admin, that you will get none at all since the game is poorly managed.

As a reviewer of many other games (online and console) this site is not recommended to be play on by the world community and should be avoid by all costs.
If this was a review for any other game that i have reviewed (eg. GTA vice city when it first came out i give that a overall mark of 9 out of 10) the would be getting better marks out of 10 when compared to evony.

There are many other online games that are like evony that have been out longer, such as trible war (6 out of 10 mark) only problem with that is you don't have a alliance chat room for it, there is also lords they have just started a new age they are on there age 2 and they have been out longer than evony and you do the same things, talk in alliance chat recruit for alliance's ect. Also you do other things on the lords game you can walk around the map with your race you pick eg. If you pick human you walk around as a human, there is 3 races you can pick from and you walk around the map as that race, they are the same as evony and have got a over all review mark of 7 out of 10, so this also proves that evony can't be bothered to help its players and sort out the problems.
Also since this game has been around for since may 2009 you would have thought it would have better management that it does now.
After so many complaints about this game from my freinds and other people that still play it for the reason so they can talk to their new made freinds if they don't have msn or facebook, i had decided that i let a this review and a more detailed on to the review comapany i work for, off for to long. I am very sorry for the delay.

You can play the game for free but you will always be at a disadvantage when others are paying and there is many that do pay just to be at that level so that they can have a chance in actally playing this, to sum this game up from free for ever is a scam they trick you into paying them then you get a cost to your bank account (currency charge), no one accally knows were this company is based but we do have a clue that it is run by Chinese or Japanese but are not sure.

Thanks for reading this
Angrynoob (this is not my real reviewers name as a good reviewer you don't inclose your real name)
One of the most feared games reviewers in the world.

I grew up loving to play games like Civilization and Age of Empires. I loved always beating the computer. A couple of months ago, I came across Evony and decided to check it out. I fell in love with it. I love the complexity of it, the variables, the figuring out of all the nuances. I especially like competing against someone besides the computer.

The techs, the units, the buildings, the geography, the economy, the resources all have important interactions with each other which makes the game utterly fascinating.

I read some unflattering things about the game from other postings, but i have not observed any problems with malware, etc. The game is fun and the strategy to it is awesome. Some are critical that it takes real dollars to buy things. However, the developers provide daily free gifts through amulets, which can be used to get critical resources and tools to grow your civilization.

You start out as a lowly civilian, and have 7 days to build your city into something strong enough to defend. You can advance through the ranks, gaining greater titles, allowing you to control more cities and resources and units. The greater the technology you have, the higher and more powerful units you can command. You get to build city defenses to protect your city. Your cities are governed by heros which allow your cities and armies geater strength and power in fighting. You can also spy on enemies to see if you should launch an attack. You can compare your progress with other players as well to mark your progress.

Then you can join alliances with which to protect your city or cities. That is where the fun really begins, because in them you can team up to take on enemies, declare war, reinforce each other, make treaties and inter-alliance alliances, etc. The game is played in real time where you have to time the attacks just right to win. It's challenging and you never figure it all out.

Come join me sometime on server 123. Whisper me, my name is Magnus. Let's get started on an alliance. One of the things i really enjoy is the lively chat. Strage as it may sound, I have made a lot of friends on it. I highly recommend the game to those interested in a stimulating and complex, yet highly learnable game. The tutorial really helps as well.