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Final Fantasy XI Online: The Vana'diel Collection 2008 | 
 enlarge | From: Square Enix
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 470
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: role_playing_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 90719
Model: 90719
UPC: 662248907192
EAN: 0662248907192
ASIN: B000X2FTMY
Release Date: November 20, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
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| Features:
| • | Answer this summons and step into an online world like none you've ever experienced. | | • | Experience dramatic quests, fierce battles and a flexible job system. | | • | The stakes are higher. The risks are greater. The rewards are bigger. | | • | Free Subscription for 30 days. | | • | Includes original game plus four expansion packs. |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Join in on the popular, long-running massively-multiplayer-online adventure! The Crystal War has ravaged the land of Vana'diel. Three solitary nations are now all that remain in the desperate fight for survival against the forces of the relentless beastmen. A call is put forth for new heroes to join the fight - heroes like you. How you play is entirely up to you - you've got the ability to customize every aspect of your character, a range of skills to discover and master, the choice to travel solely or as part of a team, and limitless possibilities for adventure! This epic collection contains the original game, as well as the Rise of the Zilart, Chains of Promathia, Treasures of Aht Urghan and Wings of the Goddess expansion packs.
ESRB Rated T for Teen
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| Customer Reviews:
 Final Fantasy XI Online December 26, 2008
Travis J. Rose (Camp Hill, PA)
A very good MMORPG in my own opinion. A little more complex than World Of Warcraft. But very enjoyable with some good friends.
Love it. December 21, 2008
D. Hoekstra (Michigan)
This was my first MMORPG I have purchased and my third Final Fantasy game I have played. The others I have played are (in order) FFX, FFX2, & FFXII. I love the open combat system, being one of the few that were annoyed by the "invisible monsters" in the other FF games. If you don't like MMORPG's then I'd suggest staying away from this game but If you are neutral, the 1-month free trial is more than enough time to either love it or hate it. I'd suggest finding a group to play with to enjoy this game to the full capacity, as some parts are hard to access if you don't have more people with you.
Overall, I love the game and would recommend it to anyone.
Final Fantasy XI is one of the best versions out there! November 30, 2008
Bob Ferland (Swanville, ME United States)
Final Fantasy XI is very entertaining, seeing you play with other players in real time. It is both challenging and fun!
Love this game! November 24, 2008
C. Tin (Seattle)
Honestly... if you have a PC use that! My xbox lags at times so I use this mainly as a backup when friends come over to play. :)
A final fantasy mmorpg October 27, 2008
Jeff Brugamyer (Amarillo, TX)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've started my third year playing this game after a six month break and am now enjoying it more than ever. This is a game that requires a lot of time for everything. Time to go from place to place, time to level up your jobs (I don't say character because you play any job you want to and switch from job to job without making a new character). It also takes a lot of time to make money and there are many ways to make money in the game it just requires ALOT of patience.
Getting started in this game can be very difficult and frustrating at times but if you talk to people most of them will help you out and guide you to where you need to get to. The game starts you out with you choosing the race you want to play as throught the game. The races you get to choose from are Hume's (male or female), Elvaan's (male or female), Mithra's (female only), Galka's (male only) and the Tarutaru's (male and female). Although there aren't a lot of different races there are many different combinations you can make for each character so running into a similiar character isn't so frequent. This is also where you will pick your main job and there are six jobs to choose from when you first start. After that you choose which country your character lives/comes from and there are three to choose from. The three countries are Bastok, Windurst and Sandoria. Bastok is made up of the Hume's and Galka's, Windy has the Mithra's and Tarutaru's and Sandy is home of the elvaans but you can choose whichever one you want.
Races: Depending on what job you want to do might help you choose the race you want to play as each race is proficient in certain jobs. The Galka's are made for jobs such as Paladin and Warrior classes (tanks jobs in pt's), Elvaan's are geared towards Monk and Dark Knight (Damage Dealer's in pts or DD's if you will), Mithra's are for the Thief and Ranger jobs (support or pullers for ur party), Hume's are the basic all around character and are proficient in any job but don't specialize in a paraticular one and Tarutaru's are the magic wielding jobs such as the White Mage and Black Mage jobs (healer's and debuffs in the party). However, you can pick whatever race you want and whatever job you want just remember that Galka's are not gonna be as good as Tarutaru's in magic and Tarutaru's aren't gonna be as good as Galka's for tanking.
Jobs: The player is given six jobs to choose from called your basic jobs. They are warrior, thief, monk, white mage, black mage and red mage. I'm not gonna go into details because that could take to long. There are 14 other jobs available once the player reaches 30. The player has to do quests to unlock the other jobs and can find out how to by asking someone or just looking it up online. The other jobs are ranger, dark knight, paladin, blue mage, samurai, ninja, corsair, bard, beastmaster, puppetmaster, summoner, scholar, dancer and dragoon. Also for jobs you get to have a subjob which means you have a main job and a job to support it. For instance, say the player is a paladin, the player then gets to choose a job to support that. The player will want to choose a subjob that will support the main job. So that player will most likely choose warrior for the defense bonuses and job abilities that warrior has. Also the subjob is half the level of the main job so if the paladin is lvl 30 the warrior will be lvl 15 with all the abilites the warrior gets at 15. Also by adding warrior as a subjob extra hit points will be added.
The storyline progresses at the players leisure and since there are tons of quests and missions that the player will be doing its easy to forget what you've done unless you're progressing really fast which is highly unlikely. Doing missions and quests will earn you fame in different countries which definately benefit the player. One example is the "Lure of the Wildcat" quest which when completed gives the player to get teleported to Aht Urghan Whitegate which will save a lot of time and only costs 300 gil per teleport.
The game is definitely geared for the hardcore people who can spend a lot of time in the game. This is definitely a game where you reap what you sew. If the player just wants to casually play the game and just party and level and talk to friends they can. The thing is that by playing casually the player will most likely not get the really best gear in the game and around level 50 will either start another job or just slowly stop playing the game. The game requires a lot of time, gil and patience for the good armor and weapons in the game if the player is willing to sacrifice it.
This particular edition of final fantasy xi combines the original release plus all the expansions up to the latest wings of the goddess. Each expansion has added new jobs, areas to explore and more missions and quests. I found it a really good buy when it first came out and now that its twenty dollars its well worth the buy. I've heard people complain about the monthly charge of the game on top of the xbl charge. Thing is that most people don't just play this game, they play others as well on xbl and the monthly fee is from the maker's of the game. Alot of mmorpg's have a monthly charge and this one is no different. The updates and installing can take a really long time, maybe to long but you really shouldn't let that deter you from at least trying this game out.
There is so much more to this game and is hard to put in a review, I really don't think its possible to review even half of what this game has to offer someone who really is interested in playing. The only areas that I can think of where this game suffers is the exceptionally hard to make money or gil for weapons and gear and the long installing process and the sometimes very long updates.
All I can really tell you is try the game out and decide for yourself whether or not its a game you want to put a lot of time into. Just remember if you get stuck there are people you can ask to help you out and most of them will be more than happy to. Don't be quick to judge the game from just the beginning, it takes awhile to really get into the heart of the game itself so get out there try it and keep at it.
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