Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Peer review/Anarchy Online/Archive 1

Anarchy Online

I started out with the intention to slightly improve this article a few weeks ago, and ended up reorganizing/rewriting almost the entire thing. Thanks to Someoneanother and haha169 for offering a lot of constructive criticism in their assessments, and for promoting it to B-Class. It's getting to the point now where I'm not sure what parts to work on before considering a GA nomination. Is the 'Gameplay' section hard to understand? Is it too bias in places? Is is boring to read? Do the images not relate to the article? Needs more references? Any kind of advice on all aspects of the article would be appreciated Sebquantic (talk) 23:26, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Review from Mendaliv

The first sentence of the Gameplay section made me smile; "Gameplay in Anarchy Online is generally based on its predecessors and successors in the MMORPG genre" (emph. mine); how exactly can gameplay be based on that of its successors? I fixed this to make more sense. As to the general review...

• They usage- I hate to stick to this one, but many people (myself included) don't like to see "they/their" used as a singular gender-neutral pronoun. While it can look better than he/she or it, you can avoid the problem altogether with some creative planning. Always talking about "players" instead of "a player", for example, permits you to freely use "they" and satisfy both groups.
• Weight- Seems reasonable, but not having played AO myself, (I'm a Neocron freak) I can't tell you if you're covering the game itself comprehensively enough. My main comments would be that it seems you're explaining the whole concept of an experience point and skill point system a little too deeply than is necessary. I do like that you're doing some linking out to concepts in similar game genres, but you should be able to exploit that a little more to "pass the buck" of explaining in-depth concepts.
• Citations- Seem a little on the light side for some things, and should reference page numbers when possible (especially on things like the manual). This would provide the accessibility needed from someone doing serious research on MMORPGs to be able to check out the gameplay easily.

I think that's the bulk of it. The article does look real good! —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 13:19, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

I'll start working on the player pronouns tonite, and hopefully the citations soon. There are probably some good paragraphs from the old version of the article that could be added/merged to describe the game in more detail also. Thanks for taking the time to review! Sebquantic (talk) 02:47, 10 September 2008 (UTC)