Monthly Archives: May 2009

Warrior Epic: Closed Beta started

True Games, an international publisher of multi-player online games today launched the closed beta for Warrior Epic.
“Today represents a major milestone for Warrior Epic and True Games,” said Peter Cesario, Director of New Business and Product Development at True Games.  “We are proud of the experience we are bringing to our quickly growing Warrior Epic community and with this launch, we are confident that gamers who have felt a void in their gaming library will find that Warrior Epic is their new go-to game.”
 
Developed by Austin based studio Possibility Space, Warrior Epic is an online, action role-playing game set in an original fantasy universe. In the game, players will assume command of a Warrior Hall from which they manage their characters’ adventures.
They can recruit from a wide array of Warrior Classes, each with its own style of play. The Classes and the Hall itself can be upgraded visually as well as functionally. Players adventure together in multiplayer campaigns, adventure mode, solo quests and PVP.
 
One of the most unique aspects of Warrior Epic is the death system.
Instead of penalizing players for their fallen warriors, Warrior Epic opens new and strategic options for players.  The game’s unique Warrior Spirits System enables fallen warriors to not only be revived at any time at their hall, but also to be transformed into Spirits that can be bound to weapons and equipment to increase and open weapon abilities and stats, or they can be called out to inflict massive damage depending on player needs.
 
Unlike most MMO’s today, Warrior Epic will offer players a satisfying online experience even if they have only a few hours a week to play.
One of the ways Warrior Epic achieves this is by putting a heavy emphasis on session-based missions. These 20-30 minute sessions allow a player to make significant progress in regards to leveling their Warrior, gaining loot, and accomplishing more in a much shorter timeframe than other existing games.

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Parabellum: Closed Beta started

GamersFirst has started Closed beta signups for Parabellum!
Parabellum is a Free-to-Play massive multiplayer online First Person Shooter (MMO-FPS), it combines the best elements of FPS (First Person Shooter) and MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online) games to create an extremely unique and fully customizable gaming experience. Parabellum introduces the first interactive non-linear multiplayer campaigns in addition to an advanced character & weapon development system.
 
Game Setting –
By the year 2018, the privatization of global military forces created highly profitable opportunities for ex-soldiers, mercenaries and adventurers. Set in a world in a not too distant future, you must choose your alignments carefully to survive. You must join forces with one of the two foremost covert reconnaissance organizations in the world. The CTF; an organization avowed to keeping anarchy at bay, or the Syndicate; a legion of bloodthirsty rebels bent on destruction and chaos. Each of them are solicited by the C.I.N. a Global Mercenary Network that provides contract missions to each of these factions who vie against one another with the fate of the World as the ultimate prize.

Florensia: All-New Trade System

Burda:ic, a publisher of online games worldwide, has announced the launch of the Trade System for free-to-play maritime MMORPG Florensia. Players looking to make a profit on the high seas can now try their hand at the mercantile arts by visiting one of the Trading Posts, which have popped up on every major island. In addition, eight brand-new islands have been discovered along the trade routes: Aria, Celestyn, Clouds, Ease, Eva, Gem, Misty, and Selina.
The owner of each Trading Post carries a variety of items, including olive oil, rum, spice, and millet. Up to three kinds of goods can be carried at a time, and prices vary according to supply and demand across the market. Stingy players will have to risk taking a loss as they transport wares, but savvy traders can pay a small fee to get insider info. If you make good time sailing to an island where rum and spices are being sold at a premium, you’re sure to make a killing in the marketplace.
Of course, with all this potential profit comes significant risk. The soon-to-be-busy trade routes of Florensia are an open invitation to pirates, and players may no longer respawn at sea, so every trip is sure to be fraught with danger. This is also just the first stage of the Trade System, and the plethora of updates to come is guaranteed to raise the stakes!

Zero Online Review: Just Casual

By Jeffrey Kerkdijk (Hyarume), Onrpg writer
 
Zero online is a MMORPG developed by TQ entertainment. Zero Online is a sci-fi action MMORPG worth your time if you are looking for a sci-fi adventure in a unique setting, with gameplay like one of a kind.
 

Pick a machine, pick a character and go!

When you first start the game, you have to pick a robot and pick a driver. Instead of customizing one you have a few characters to choice from. After that you are ready to begin the game. At the very start, a tutorial teaches you the game by guiding you through some beginner quests.
 
The main goal is hitting the maximum level, which can be done in a week, probably even just three days. Leveling is so simple it isn’t even a challenge. It is just too easy. And once you are done with that there isn’t much to come back for,  there is some player versus player content. But that’s it.
 
Quests are often kill-quests and tasks to go and talk to another NPCs. These aren’t much fun and there is an automatic walk system(auto-pilot) so you don’t have to move all the way to the NPC, you can watch the AP do it.
 
Zero online has plenty of places to go, but It isn’t much fun. Because if you need to somewhere, you can just let the Auto pilot do it.
 

Funnel system

The game lets you operate three units at the same time. You can get your first extra unit when you are level 100 and the last at level 145. You can freely shift between and using this system makes you a lot more powerful in the game.
 

Transformation system

You can transform when you are playing Zero Online, any unit can do this. This will not only change how you look, but it will also affect your abilities.
 
One thing that is fun is the combat, you click in a direction and shoot or attack in that direction. You click on a skill and right click to do the skill, wherever you want to. There are a lot of weapons and skills you can learn. The combat in Zero Online is pretty fun.
 
But it has a minor downside: once you run out of ammo, you can let the auto pilot auto-walk you to the vendor. You buy what you need and head back to the hunting spot. This breaks up combat and adventuring.
 
There isn’t much more to do than some normal player versus player. Or PK, which is just a game of who has more potions.
 

Graphics and sound.

The characters in Zero Online have rich 3D graphics although the world itself is 2D with 2.5D graphic effects. The world has plenty of detail and some places look amazing. You even have places where you see a planet in the background which looks absolutely fantastic. Skill animations look great. I love the graphics of this game, for a 2.5D game it looks out of this world (which it is, being sci-fi!)
 
The game music is good and fits the style of the game and the combat sounds really make you think that you are in space. Generally the audio is excellent and suits the atmosphere just fine, but some of the effects can be pretty annoying.

 
Conclusion

Zero online is a decent game, although there isn’t much to do in the game. But enough for a week of fun. There aren’t any events and there isn’t much of a community when you are playing the game. I have seen no GMs during my time in the game. Quest are pretty boring, but can get you some good items or some money if you like to gear up.
 
If you are looking for a casual MMORPG to play, then Zero might be your game. If you are looking for a game for the long term, this is probably not the game for you.
 
Pros
-Great combat system
-Fast leveling
-Funnel system
 
Cons
-Some irritating sound effects
-Not much to do
-PvP relies on potion spamming