EverQuest wasn?t the first game of its kind when it was released in 1999, but it was the best, and remained the best for a long time. Along with Ultima Online, it deserves credit for popularizing the massively multiplayer online role-playing genre, and it?s still widely played to this day. As a result, the inevitable EverQuest II has some seriously big shoes to fill. And it almost does. In many ways, this new game embodies almost all the numerous refinements and evolutions that the genre has undergone in the past five years, so it?s one of the most instantly gratifying and accessible online RPGs yet. When you get right down to it, EverQuest II really isn?t that different from the numerous other games of its type, and its mostly great visuals are offset by subpar technical performance----Read Full Review

From Gamespot

I?ll spare you the usual spiel about how EverQuest launched a craze for massively multiplayer games, how it set a pattern which nearly everyone has tried to copy, and how it became, under the name "EverCrack," the poster child for game addiction. We?re here to talk about the sequel and the improvements and changes it?s made to that initial model which has since launched dozens and dozens of less-successful imitators. ---- Read Full Review

From IGN

While its intent - to unite thousands of players simultaneously within a huge game world - is similar to other online role-playing games, EverQuest delivers on its promises much more assertively than the competition, though not always gracefully. Between its excellent graphics, its performance, its rich fantasy setting, and its propensity to force you to cooperate with, rather than hinder, your fellow players, EverQuest is the best game in its class. At the same time, it is loaded with problems. Most aren?t serious, though many are glaring, but just as you?re liable to notice its flaws, so will you be inclined to look beyond them once you see how much the game has to offer.----Read Full Review

From Gamespot

My face and I just saw some huge green thing with a long nose run in front of me. No, I?m not hallucinating from lack of rest, I?m just up at 4am playing EverQuest, one of the most addictive games I?ve played in years. Sony had a lot to prove with EverQuest and, for the most part, they?ve made the other online RPGs perk up and take notice of the new kid on the block. And while EverQuest isn?t perfect by any means, it is the most immersive and most addictive online RPG to date.----Read Full Review

From IGN