It’s time for me to review something you don’t actually have to buy. While most F2P games aren’t quality games, there are a few exceptions. Is Global Agenda one of them?

OVERVIEW
Global Agenda is an MMO that takes place in 2155 after WW3 turns the entire world to rubble. In the ashes of the Earth an oppressive government called the Commonwealth arises, determined to take control of the new world by force. You (and all the other players) assume the role of an Agent, an advanced soldier part of a small group of rebels determined to wipe out the Commonwealth. Under the leadership of Dalton Bancroft, you have a small chance. In the game you’ll run through a plethora of missions in one outdoor area, then you’ll move to the instances which launch from a lobby. However, I’ll get to that in a moment. The story of the game sucks. I’ll be to the point. I don’t like it too much, but we all like different things. If worked correctly, it could be cool. For now, it lacks any depth whatsoever. But that’s not enough to turn me away.

GAMEPLAY
Since Global Agenda is an MMO, there’s going to be classes, levels, a talent system and raids. Upon making your character, you’re allowed to choose from four classes; Assault, Recon, Medic and Robotics. The Assault class is your general tank. He normally wields a minigun and has a massive health pool. The Recon class can go two ways; melee and sniping. Melee is more for PvP and sniping PvE. Either way, the Recon does a great deal of damage if played correctly, but since it’s the most popular class (that I’ve seen) most people just choose it because it looks cool. It does look cool and it’s a fun class to play as, but it’s not fun if you don’t know what you’re doing. The medic is well.. a medic. I think we all know what medics do. Now, the robotics is my personal favorite, and is the “engineer” class. A lot like the engineer from TF2, you build turrets, health stations, power stations, force fields and deploy drones. If you play it correctly you’re a one man army, and in my opinion this is the funnest class to play.

Global Agenda is a third person over-the-shoulder shooter, where you grab a gun and start playing. You have unlimited ammo, but you have a power pool that drains every time you fire your weapon or use your jetpack or special abilities. Oh yeah, the jetpacks are awesome. PvE in the game isn’t too great. You’re given a massive area with a string of quests, but that’s for lower levels. Once you’re done with the open world area you go to lobbies and do instances. That part gets boring fairly quickly, but the PvP is fun. It has gamemodes like point control and payload (seems TF2 inspired some stuff in this game) and is generally fun to play.

ENVIRONMENT
Since there isn’t much of a story, you’re either outside in a desert or inside “Dome City” and waiting to join an instance. Therefore, I can’t grade the environment too well.. but in reading my other sections you get a good idea of what things are like.

GRAPHICS
As far as MMOs go, the graphics for this game are actually pretty good. Effects are fun to look at and you have great character customization to make your own agent. The world textures are good quality and nothing is truly bland, except for some parts of the desert area. However, this game is resource intensive and even on the lowest graphics settings low-end computers will probably experience problems. The good news is, the game is free and you can just use canyourunit to see if you’re good to go.

WHAT’S GOOD
Global Agenda has a lot of things going for it. It’s free to play, offers a new take on MMOs, has good upper-level raids and is more simple than most other MMOs. The PvP is excellent and if you’re in a good Agency (guild) you will always have someone to play with.

WHAT’S CRAP
The same thing that makes Global Agenda fun also makes it not as fun. Free to play accounts level at half the speed of paid accounts, and receive half the loot. You do not get loot at the end of missions, you cannot use the auction house or the mail system, create agencies, and you get ads using in-game voice. In addition, I do not like the PvE, unless it’s a raid. It’s extremely repetitive and gets old fairly quickly, considering for the higher levels all you can do is run instances. But I’d suggest giving it a try, it’s free after all.