Hello all,

Yesterday I installed and started playing Requiem and although it is probably early to review it here go what I thought about it:
The game was recommended by a friend of mine a few months ago but only I could only try it now.

The graphical aspect of the game is pretty good although a bit dated; it still uses volumetric shadows so I recommend you just turn the shadows off. The rest of the game is graphically pretty good and the players characters are very well designed and rendered and so are the weapons, very impressive. The game is definitely still a eye candy. The Ragdoll effect that you get from the Havoc engine when you kill a mob is just awesome, really gets you in the mood to go kill some more and the gore… oh the gore… probably what I liked most about the game was the gore, I’ve played MMORPG for 10 years now and I never found one with this level of gore… I’m not just talking about the blood (which is already a big “OH YEAH”) but the fact that you can literally cut the mobs into pieces.
The biggest problems I can find with this game are the badly designed quests with little or no lore and plenty of “go there and kill this” quests and the excessive lag the game has, I don’t know where the servers are located but I am from Portugal and I can tell you it lags a lot which is a pity and takes off some of the emotions of the game because you are unable to execute the special moves on time. It takes a few seconds after clicking the icon to the executions of the move and that breaks a little of the momentum you get when you’re fighting a mob.

Overall this game is a real keeper and one of the best free games I ever seen. If in the future the lag is resolved and the game is pushed up at least to use a good pixel shader for the shadows then it will become a great game. If the game was launched a few years before it would be up there against AoC/LotRO/WAR/WOW

Don’t take my word for it, try it out, after all… its free!! 
 

the best part is with it still being new, it might still be able to compete with those games in the next comming months.