There was always something to do, yet sometimes you just wanted to sit and watch the skyline or moon and stars. This was one of the best MMORPGs during the Golden Age of MMOs, before WoW ruined the genre. No theme park nonsense here, you can go almost anywhere at any level. You wanted to explore and wanted to find quiet places to yourself. Lots of new ideas, some good and some that didnt pan out. Even PVP was fun. People cared about eachother and had fun.

the quake 1 of mmorpg pvp. ahead of its time then and now still. the wide expanse of ac's open world beats the hell out of vertical theme parks in current year, or current millennium for that matter

I stared at the box of this in a tiny business supplies shop for like an hour. Couldn't buy it cos my village didn't get broadband until 2005.

My daydreams about how I would play it if I could were so intense that I remember them quite clearly after 15 years.