Second Life vs The Falconeer
Second Life
Second Life is one of the world's largest 3D social virtual world game that brings players together and immerses them in a brilliant metaverse filled with thousands of virtual worlds created, mostly, by its users. It is a great place to meet other people with similar interests, discover new and beautiful worlds, and to relax after a long and tiring day. It is also a great platform for its users to express their creativity, allowing them to create their own virtual worlds, fashion lines, pets, avatar animations, and other objects. The items created can then be sold on the game's massive marketplace. In fact, talented designers can easily build an actual online business in Second Life! There are tons of events, hosted by either the users themselves or by Linden Labs, that are ongoing at any point in time in this game as well. In short, there's a reason why Second Life is still as popular as it today, and if you happen to be on the lookout for virtual world game, we'd highly recommend Second Life.The Falconeer
The Falconeer is a third-person adventure game focusing on aerial combat on the back of a warbird. Best played with a controller, the game features a massive, steampunk-themed open ocean-covered world to explore, thrilling dogfights to dive into, and quests to complete.The Falconeer features a massive open world that the player can explore to his/her heart’s content! There are many different islets featuring various points-of-interest like fortified locations, seachantress, and weaponshop that players can land on, but the most important one is probably the settlements. Here, players can take quests; buy stuff like weapons, serums to enhance your warbird, permits, etc from vendors; complete bounties, and even buy a new warbird once the pre-requisites (such as completing a time trial race within just 30 seconds) are fulfilled.
Now, in terms of combat, I’m a bit on the fence about The Falconeer. Personally, I find the controls in The Falconeer to feel rather awkward. Aiming is also very hard in this game, not because you have to aim ahead like what you’ll typically do in a tank-based game like World of Tanks but rather, aim at a fast-moving target. The crosshair will jump all over the place (if not disappear outright) during a dogfight. At one point, the crosshair disappeared entirely, turning my warbird into a sitting duck. Flying isn’t as stable as I’d like as well. Maybe this is done in the name of realism, but I’ve noticed that sometimes my warbird will dip and fly lower for no reason.
The Falconeer has some incredible, unique world-building complete with beautiful graphics and atmosphere. The only unfortunate thing about the game is probably the controls. It’s very hard to properly navigate your warbird, let alone engage in intense aerial combat when it feels like I’m trying to aim at fast-moving targets while being completely drunk. So, I’d say the game might be suitable for a more hardcore, high-skilled player base but not the average gamer.