There are many internet-based games that utilise similar cartoon-styled graphics that are aimed towards younger ages as Toontown is. Battlefield Heroes is a very popular one, created by Easy Studios and published by Electronic Arts. Battlefield Heroes is a basic capture-the-forts based third person shooter which features cartoon graphics, no blood or gore and is free to download and play. The game has received 69 out of a hundred from Metacritic and 8 out of 10 from IGN.If you are looking for more MMORPG’s (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) then obviously the most popular would be World of Warcraft. Set in the fictional world of Azeroth, the game revolves around the player creating their character then completing quests to gain experience in order to ‘level-up’ and increase their character’s statistics.As well as World of Warcraft there are numerous other MMORPG’s, some of which are free to play such as Legend of Martial Arts, the main page for which can be found here: loma.perfectworld.com/ There are a great many MMORPG’s that are currently in use, this link is a list of some of them: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Massively_multiplayer_online_ Be aware that some of these may not be in circulation any more, although while some games such as Star Wars Galaxies are no longer playable through the original servers, the fans still play through emulators, so it may still be possible to play them.The MMOPRG world has actually been used for psychological and sociological research over the previous few years. Seeing as how every player in these games as a real person somewhere in the world, several psychologists have subscribed to these games to speak to players in an effort to understand the mindset behind them. It was found that players gain an expanded emotional range through playing as a character whom is not their own linked to their own life.
