Rift, a new MMORPG looking to make a big splash on a scene dominated by World of Warcraft, has been available in open beta for a few days now. Ars sat down to get a read on how the game is shaping up in advance of its launch next month, and, while it may draw some resentment for stepping on Blizzard’s enormous MMORPG toes, Rift is shaping up to be a unique entry into the world of online gaming.
For better or worse, WoW is the de facto standard in the MMORPG world, and Rift has not forgotten this. On startup, old WoW salts will notice that the hotkeys are currently mapped exactly, and we mean exactly, the same as in WoW—O for social, P for spellbook, and so forth. While this gave us a sense of copycat-related foreboding, once we got into the game, Rift proved to have dynamics and gameplay that stand apart from WoW.
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