The best thing about playing Anarchy Online is that you never actually feel like you're playing a free game. Certainly, the game shows plenty of signs of its age, but unlike most free games, it doesn't waste any of your time reminding you that you should be paying for the privilege. You forget because the experience is right up there with what you'd expect to have to pay money for, and that's really something. Obviously, Anarchy Online's past as a game designed for subscription plays a big part in this, but I had a go at Anarchy when it first came out, and the game is thankfully entirely unrecognisable now.
