美国人对天堂2的评价

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NCsoft's fantasy-themed massively multiplayer game, Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle, definitely isn't for everyone. While it's certainly pretty to look at, the game focuses primarily on fighting monsters repeatedly to earn enough funds to purchase the exorbitantly priced weapons and armor you need to survive--a decidedly different approach than that of most other recent online role-playing games, which have attempted to alleviate these very issues. This differing emphasis is likely due to the fact that Lineage II was originally developed for the Asian market--so a few things may have been lost in translation.

NCSoft 的这款奇幻主题的大型多人线上游戏：天堂二，并不是一款适合所有类型玩家的游戏。虽然它有着非常漂亮的画面，但是这款游戏主要着重于重复的砍杀怪物，以赚取足够的资金来购买让你得以生存的昂贵的武器与防具。这个设计理念跟近期其它大部分的线上角色扮演游戏都有所不同，其它游戏都试着在避开这个部份。这种着重点的不同或许是因为天堂二原本是为了亚洲市场而开发的－－所以有些东西可能因为翻译的关系而失真了。

Like in other games of this sort, Lineage II lets you create a single character before you go out on adventures in a persistent online world, where you fight monsters, gain experience levels, and recover treasures with thousands of other players. Having good gear and items is essential to surviving and prospering in Lineage II, which makes money far more important in this game than in most others of its kind. Unfortunately, while Lineage II was to have featured castle sieges and other elaborate player-versus-player battle systems for powerful and experienced characters, these features aren't yet implemented in the North American version of the game. While some larger guilds of players have staged bigger battles, player-versus-player combat is otherwise very infrequent in Lineage II. The game has a punishing \"karma\" system in which players that constantly attack other players out of the blue become outlaws who may be counterattacked and actually lose their items, while everyone else can attack outlaws with impunity.

像是其它这种类型的游戏，天堂二首先要创造一个人物，然后就可以进入一个共通的线上世界，你可以在那里与其它上千名玩家一起砍杀怪物、赚取经验值、获得宝物等等。拥有好的装备与物品在天堂二里面是赖与生存与发展的基本要素，因此在这款游戏里金钱比其它同类型游戏要来得更为重要。不幸滴，虽然天堂二提供给高等玩家攻城以及其它详尽的玩家对玩家对战系统的设定，但是这些功能在目前北美的版本并未实作。虽然有些大型血盟偶尔会有些大型盟战，不过除此之外的玩家对玩家战斗在天堂二里并不常发生。游戏内对于常常攻击其它玩家的玩家有着惩罚性的正义值系统，犯罪者非常有可能被追杀并且损失物品，因为其它所有玩家可以不受惩罚的攻击这些犯罪者。

The North American version of Lineage II lets you create characters from one of five main races: elves, dark elves, humans, orcs, and dwarves. With the exception of dwarves (who may become craftsmen, but can begin only as fighters), these races may all start out at level one as fighters or mystics, then later change to more advanced professions once they reach level 20, then again at level 40. Unfortunately, it's a pretty long way just to get to level 20--something you can view as either a challenge or a chore. Probably the latter. This is unfortunate, since high-level characters eventually do get some interesting special abilities. In the early part of your character's life, you can assume various quests from certain characters to earn money and experience rewards, but some of the quests are rather repetitive (you'll need to kill 30 to 50 monsters of a certain type, for instance), and in many cases, these rewards aren't especially big.

北美版本的天堂二让你创造五种种族的角色：精灵、黑暗精灵、人类、兽人以及矮人。除了矮人以外（将来会成为工匠，虽然一开始的时候只是个战士），这些种族一开始都只是等级一的战士或法师，然后将来在 20 级的时候可以转职成进阶的职业，接着 40 级的时候再来一次。不幸的是，要达到 20 级要花上相当长的时间－－你可以把这点看作是一件挑战或是一种烦人的琐事，或许是后者吧。这实在是很不幸，因为高等级的角色才能得到一些有趣的技能。在你角色早期的生涯，你可以进行一些任务以获取金钱与经验值奖赏，但是部分的任务重复性相当高（例如你必须杀死某种类的怪物 30 到 50 只这样），而且在大部分的情况下，任务的奖赏并不会特别好。

Solo battles with monsters aren't especially exciting either; they mostly boil down to either setting your character to auto-attack, then sitting back and watching (while periodically using special abilities), or to casting as many attack spells from as far away as possible until monsters can catch up with you. You then have to deal with the downtime, where you sit and rest for several minutes to recover. Group battles are more interesting, although at this time they seem to offer about as much strategic depth as most other online RPGs. Like in other such games, the best teammates know when to heal the fighters, know when to cast attack spells to finish off wounded monsters, and generally know how much or little fighting or spell-casting they should engage in to make sure you have minimal downtime.

单人与怪物战斗并不会特别令人兴奋；大部分的情况不是叫你的角色自动攻击，然后坐着等结果（有时周期性的使用一些技能），就是在怪物打到你之前，离得越远越好，然后尽量丢出更多的攻击魔法。然后就是休息停滞时间，你必须坐下并且等待数分钟以回复。组队战斗就有趣得多，虽然就这点这款游戏提供了与其它线上游戏差不多的战略深度。就像其它那些游戏一样，最好的队友要知道何时医疗战士、知道何时施展攻击法术来了结受伤的怪物，而且还要知道如何掌控战斗的节奏，以确保能得到最佳的续战力。

While joining a group of other players is a great way to quickly cut through hordes of monsters and earn lots of experience to gain levels, it's a very poor way to earn \"adena,\" the game's currency. For whatever reason, the amount of money you pick up from higher-level monsters doesn't match up with the rising costs of new weapons and armor. So the most efficient way to play Lineage II seems to be fighting weaker monsters on your own, since you'll sustain fewer injuries per battle and will be able to fight longer without having to stop and rest. \"Farming,\" or grinding away at the same monsters for hours at a time to accrue money, is practically required if you plan to develop your character past level 20. Perhaps as a result of this problematic economy, some unscrupulous players have taken to fashioning money scams, and in the most extreme cases, players have taken to farming and selling adena online for real-life cash--an activity that is against the game's end-user license agreement. NCsoft North America has apparently begun to crack down on these activities at this time.

虽然跟其它玩家组队可以快速的斩杀一堆怪物，然后获得大量的经验值升级，但是却很不容易赚取『天币』－－游戏中的货币。由于某种原因，你从较高等级怪物身上获取的金币并没有办法赶上新武器及防具增加的速度。所以天堂二最有效率的玩法似乎是一个人单打嫩怪，因为每场战斗你将承受较少的伤害，所以可以打得更久而不需要坐地板。如果你打算过了 20 级后还继续发展你的角色，那么『种田』或者说重复打同样的几只怪物好几小时来赚金钱是必要的行为。在这种畸形的经济体制下，有些不正直的玩家就会动起歪脑筋想赚轻松钱，而在最极端的情形下，会有玩家专门打钱，并且出卖线上的虚拟天币来赚取真实世界的现金－－这是一种违反了游戏使用者授权合约的行为。北美 NCSoft 已经开始在打击这类型的活动。

While Lineage II's current gameplay may not appeal to everyone, it's certainly a game that sounds decent and looks great. The game features an appropriate faux orchestral music score that plays in specific regions of the game, though sound effects are pretty minimal. You'll hear short, subdued audio clips for casting magic spells, and equally subdued voice samples for the game's monsters and your own characters, which will mumble or grunt while fighting or performing the game's few social gestures. You'll also see huge, scenic vistas that include detailed cities and elaborate statuaries as well as highly detailed character models. Lineage II clearly draws inspiration from Japanese animation, and its art design is stylized and consistent. The game's characters look great for what they are, though the female dark elves begin the game with an embarrassing lack of clothing.

虽然天堂二目前的游戏内容可能无法吸引所有的人，但是它的确是个有一定水准而且画面惊人的游戏。游戏内在某些特定区域有着适合的交响乐曲，不过音效部分就很简陋。你在施法时会听到简短而且不知所云的音效，然后也可以在和怪物战斗时听到同样没有意义的一些声音，或是在自己做出一些社交动作的时候。你可以看到广阔、壮丽的场景，包括了栩栩如生的城市，精致的雕像，以及高面数的人物模型。天堂二显然的从日式动画中得到很多启示，而且美术设定相当的有风格而且一致。游戏内的人物看起来实在很棒，虽然说女黑妖一开始进行游戏的时候可能会羞愧的发现自己的衣服少了点。

Depending on how you look at it, Lineage II offers either a repetitive grind or a stiff challenge. In any case, the game isn't suited for more casual players who may only have time to play for 30 minutes to an hour. But if you're looking to test your mettle at hacking through many, many monsters, Lineage II will definitely give you that much. And perhaps the upcoming large-scale player-versus-player features, like castle sieges, will make the game more exciting. At any rate, it's a fairly stable game that runs with only occasional pockets of lag. So if you're in the market for another online RPG in which you can fight lots of monsters, Lineage II will serve that purpose, especially if you plan to wait around for the game's upcoming features, which will be unveiled in subsequent, free downloadable episodes called \"chronicles.\" But if you're looking for a game that offers more content, better group options, and less of a grind, you should look elsewhere, at least for now.

就你所看到而言，天堂二可能是个重复再重复的游戏，或者是个高度挑战性的游戏。无论如何，这款游戏并不适合大部分每次只有时间玩 30 分钟至一小时的休闲玩家。但是如果你是个想要经由砍杀很多很多怪物来测试自己勇气的玩家，那么天堂二绝对可以满足你。而且或许即将到来的大规模玩家对玩家战争的功能－－像是攻城－－会让游戏更加的刺激。此外，这是一款相当稳定的游戏，顶多偶尔会有一些lag 的情形。所以如果你是在找寻一款又是让你砍杀大量怪物的线上游戏，那么天堂二绝对是符合这个需求，尤其是如果你愿意等待将来开放的功能－－会以所谓的『章节』依序以免费下载的方式推出。但是如果你是在寻找一款提供更多的内涵、更好的组队选择，以及不要那些烦人的琐事，那么你应该试试别的作品，至少现在是如此。

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