Final Fantasy XI

First, its a MMORPG, so yes it requires pay to play
13 dollars per month +1 every extra char, first char free. Now heres my review
User friendly The people are really friendly in this game, I was low on health and someone came running up and healed me, also I had one guy give me a shield, for free, I didn't even ask for one. Right now so, no one talks alot, but its pretty user friendly I rate this 10/10
Events I havn't been to any events, I missed the Halloween one, because I didn't have the game yet, so I can't rate this, but yes, it as events it looks like
Combat The combat is confusing at first, (always use Check on monsters to see if you can battle them or not) You have to double click monster, or use enter key to select them then press it again to attack. Theirs special moves you can do also for melees, I made a warrior for my first char, which gets a special ability when you first start that lets you do critical hits when you use it. Then for thief another char I made gets an ability to dodge melee attacks 100% of time for 30 seconds. Combat is pretty normal, oh, if you do special moves in a sequence with perfect timing you can do more damage then normal which is nice, so its all about timing. 9/10
Graphics The graphics are amazing, especially for the special attacks and spells, I havn't played much to explore around so to different cities, but the cities look amazing. The water affects look great to 9/10
Controls Now this is where the lower score appears, although im getting used to it, its pretty confusing, you use the numpad to move, although you can change it somehow (havn't figured it out yet) to the w a s and d key like a normal mmorpg would use. its better to select monster with the Enter key, as, if you use left click and you miss the monster it opens the annoying menu, so Im just using enter key mostly, although it sometimes selects a person instead of the monster. Like I said, you get used to it, alot of reviews are saying its annoying/hard or whatever. 5/10
Sound The sound is peaceful, but im not listening to it much, so I cant really review this but I like it so 8/10
Skills/Leveling Its level based/skill based, you raise a certain skill as you use it, like if you use swords or daggers, the more you use it, the higher it is, as that, the higher your level, the more special abilities/spells you get. Its an ok system, I dont really care about skills or leveling, so I wont rate this one
Overall So far the people are pretty friendly on my server (which I forgot to mention, your picked into a random server) I havn't done any missions/quests yet so I didn't review that part, so far im loving this game, minus the controls, I rate this 8/10