EverQuest (1999)

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Welcome to EverQuest ® - the online game that started it all! No other MMO matches EverQuest's content that includes 18 expansions, plus the original base game. Now, in its unprecedented sixteenth year, EverQuest continues to add immersive gameplay, captivating storytelling and exciting worlds full of mystery and adventure.

Gameplay

EverQuest is Free to Play. Your Way.™ Join a thriving community unlike any other online game, immerse yourself in hundreds of unique zones, battle thousands of creatures, and complete exciting quests. Group with friends and experience an online game the way it should be, epic and legendary.

Visuals and other features

Key Features:Experience 16 years of continuous development including 18 expansions of amazing content
Build your character through 90 levels of power
More than 500 zones to explore
Choose from 16 unique races and 16 distinct classes
Thousands of Alternate Abilities available to further customize your character
More than 50,000 items to earn and collect
Hire and control unique mercenaries to aid you in your heroic adventures
A robust in-game marketplace containing potions, weapons, armor, and mounts
Solo, Group and Raid across continents filled with perilous dungeons, eerie crypts, floating landscapes, and underwater adventures
Participate in several seasonal and holiday events throughout the year

Release Date

Mar 16, 1999

Metacritic Score

85

Rating

DLCs

15

Play Time

950.5 hours

Games in Series

2

ESRB

Teen: Animated Blood, Mild Violence

System Requirements

Minimum:

  • CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E4400/AMD Athlon x2 4040e
  • RAM: 3 GB
  • GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8800/AMD Radeon HD 2600 XT
  • HDD: 15 GB

Recommended:

  • CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo / AMD Phenom II x2
  • RAM: 6 GB
  • GPU: Nvidia GeForce 260/AMD Radeon HD 4870
  • HDD: 15 GB

Interesting Facts

  • It was the first commercially successful MMORPG to employ a 3D game engine.
  • It is now considered one of the greatest video games ever made.
  • Many of the elements in EverQuest have been drawn from text-based MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) games.
  • Players create a character by selecting one of twelve races in the game, which were humans, high-elves, wood-elves, half-elves, dark-elves, erudites, barbarians, dwarves, halflings, gnomes, ogres, and trolls.
  • Players move their character throughout the medieval fantasy world of Norrath.
  • The game-world of EverQuest consists of over five hundred zones.
  • Multiple instances of the world exist on various servers.
  • EverQuest featured fourteen playable character classes.
  • There have been twenty-nine expansions to the original game since release.

Mod Support

Yes

Cheats support

Yes

Microtransactions

Yes

Virtual Reality Support

Yes

Number of maps

11

Third/First Person

First person

Platforms

macOS PC

Genres

Massively MultiplayerRPG

Game Engine

True3D 7th Level

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