Monthly Archives: June 2009

Adventures Of Virellia

Adventures of Virellia is a “Jump-straight-in” MMO, allowing the player to get straight in on the action. The game is ever upgrading, whether that be features or economy.


We’re currently in open beta stage, which means you can download and help test the game’s basic features so that we can balance the game, ready to be played by hundreds of people.


We love this style of retro SNES adventure game, as do millions of others. And now you can enjoy this style of game and interact with other players too!

Discovery Online Trailer

Are you ready to explore the world? Discovery Online, a 3D historical free MMORPG, gives you the chance to sail the seas with your ship! Create your character, build your ship, take control of cities and start yourw own adventure! Watch this video now!

Destiny Online’s First Expansion Pack “The Power of Crimson”

Ingle Games Ltd. is proud to announce that the first Expansion Pack, “the Power of Crimson” of its fantasy MMORPG, Destiny Online, will be released on June 17th, 2009.
One of the main to-be-released features of the Expansion Pack, the Crimson-Grade Equipment, will add to the game, a new level of challenges and satisfactions to tens and thousands of Destiny Online Gamers worldwide. The Expansion Pack also brings to players other new exciting new features such as new World Boss, cool Outfits, powerful Super Pets, refined Tribal Quests, and an increased Max Level. Now, let’s take a detailed look at the Expansion Pack.
Crimson (Grade 5) Equipment
The Blacksmith in Golden Plume City had been working hard for years to create something new and he finally succeeded. The birth of the Crimson Equipment is finally a dream becoming reality. A level up from the currently highest grade of Purple, Crimson Equipment will present you with more power that was never imagined before. When more and more people obtain weapons of this kind, will the once peaceful world of Destiny turn into a place more chaotic and bloody, as the color of Crimson might imply?
Gorgeous Outfits and Accessories
Destiny Online already boasts an advanced Avatar System consisting of a rich selection of costumes, wings, mounts, tails, masks, headgears etc. The Expansion Pack will add to the Avatar system with even more monster masks and backpacks. Check out the below pictures!
  
 
Powerful Super Pets
Four new Super Pets will be introduced to you in this Expansion Pack: the hilarious Jack O’Lantern, the cutting-edge Excalibur, the elegant Naiad and fanally, the scary Hydra’s Head. Pretty soon, you can start your own zoo with all the pets you and your friends own.
Ferocious World Boss
A new appallingly fierce monster will appear in the Level-75 map “Sky Pit”, attacking any passers-by. The new monster turns out to be a Soul Devourer, feeding on the souls of the deluded travelers. Who will be the brave hero to fight and eliminate the monster and protect the innocent people in the Destiny world?
 
Fascinating Tribe Quest
The Expansion Pack also brings a new Tribal Mining Quest. Tribal members can now contribute more to their respective Tribal Communities by mining in a vast open pit containing abundant minerals such as Ruby and Sapphire, which are essential materials for the Tribe’s further development.
Max Level to 130
With better equipment in possession, audacious adventurers will now be ready to continue their journey in unknown territories, setting foot in the Level 130 maps and capturing some fierce new monsters in these maps as their new pets.

Freesky Online: Imperial Palace

Freesky Online is a strategic game that features intricate strategy, easy game controls, fierce air battles, and high quality flash graphics. In the middle of your world will be the Imperial Palace. This imposing structure is the symbol of your empire and the seat of the Empire’s political and military might. However, the palace can’t do it all alone; there are many important buildings that assist this powerful structure in governing your Empire effectively. So, the folks from Freesky Online will explain just what you can do to streamline palace operations.
Cultural Institute
This unassuming name hides a dark purpose. Inside the halls of this building, Imperial troops master Dominance and Ambition. The more important of these two is Dominance. Without this skill, a branch city can’t be subjugated and placed under imperial control. The higher the level of this skill, the more cities can be controlled. Ambition, which enables you to recruit more heroes to your city, is also useful as heroes can make a big difference in battle.
 
Alliance Chamber
Forming alliances is critical to surviving long in this world. No Empire is going to be able to go it alone for very long, so the quicker you make friends, the better off your long range prospects will be. Don’t worry, making friends doesn’t necessarily include playing nice with others, so feel free to be the baddest Emperor you can be… as long as your friends still got your back. To start forming alliances, you need to build an Alliance Chamber. However, if your ambitions extend beyond your borders, make sure you level it up quickly; you need to hit at least Level 3 before you can form your own Alliance.
 
Tavern
Taverns are places that attract the thirsty and the tired from off the road. If you’re lucky enough, a hero will occasionally pop by for a drink, and with the right offer, you can hire them to lead your Army. Heroes have uses beyond the military that make them invaluable as well. They also increase resource yield and production speed. If you already have a Cultural Institute, and there is no reason you should not, then make sure you’re studying Ambition so you can recruit more heroes. 
 
Bright Shrine, Shadow Shrine, Divine Hall, and Cursed Temple
These 4 buildings are perhaps the most revered and the most mysterious. These structures are brimming with magical power and are the deciding factor when it comes to what kind of heroes your Empire is looking for. When one of these has been constructed, they will attract heroes of that type, as well as boosting these heroes’ deity, light, shadow, or devil attributes.

Myth War II: 3rd Anniversary Extravaganza

Although it never had the graphics and features to compete with the big boys, Myth War fans have been rabid in their devotion to the game, and for good reason. As the first game made available on the IGG site 3 long years ago, Myth War II holds a special place in their hearts as well. With IGG ready to celebrate their 3rd anniversary they have prepared some special events for these most devoted fans, and for the game that started it all.
 
1. Festal Treasury Fight
The Festal Treasury is an 8 storey building with piles of treasure on each floor, and plenty of powerful treasure guardians to ensure its safety from players looking for loot. As players go up floor by floor, the resistance from the guardians will get fiercer and fiercer. Team up to fight, and score gobs of Honor Points and prizes hidden inside boxes dropped by the guardians.
*Feeling frisky? Team up with players below Level 30 and increase the amont of Honor Points you get.
 
2. Honor Points
Honor Points can be exchanged for gifts at Luna’s Palace. Gifts include Saint Pets, Deity Beasts and many other highly coveted gear sets.
 
3. Best Wishes
Send your best wishes to IGG as they celebrate 3 years and win a special gift. Visit the designated NPC in game to participate.

Combat Arms Review

By Kei Beneza (Dividelife), Onrpg writer
 
And yet again, another first-person-shooter (FPS) emerges from the scene. Combat Arms is a “free to play” online FPS game that lets players battle it out using modernized weaponry. I wont deny the fact that FPS games are currently the center of the gaming industry. Whether it’s on consoles, portable gadgets or the PC, FPSes have become quite an attraction. The way it exercises its network capabilities proves how well these type of games function in this new meta of gaming.
 
Combat Arms shares the same concept of these FPS games. It’s always fun to team up with others while shooting your opponents to kingdom come. However, one mustn’t judge a game simply by its genre. Combat Arms also has a few tricks up its sleeve, so let’s check it out and see how well this game is compared to its counterparts.
 

Wow! This is sweet!

The first thing you’ll probably notice is the game’s graphic capabilities. This models are rendered fantastically, which is quite rare for a free to play game. The game seems to be up to date when it comes to visuals. Kind of reminds me of Call of Duty 4 or World at War. When it comes to graphics, this game is a lot better than most MMOs today. The colors are quite bright and the frame rate is pretty enthralling. If your PC can handle the system requirements then I’m sure you’re in for a ride. The controls are pretty much the same as the typical FPS control scheme, so you don’t really have to get used to it unless you’re new with this type of genre.
 
The interface is quite similar to the most up to date shooters. Basically, you’ll see your lifebar on the bottom left portion of your screen along with your ammo count on the bottom right. What’s really satisfying about this game is how the kill count pops up whenever you enter a “killing spree”. The grungy text really helps you feel the glory of having to kill multiple targets. In fact, that definitely beats a small message that says “yourname killed—-> hisname” by a mile. Nothing is more rewarding than a big fat message that signifies your triumph, and the grungy text alone pretty much delivers that.
 

Locked and Loaded

Combat arms lets players customize their guns to enhance their performance in the field. Modifying your artillery by adding a scope for example, can greatly optimize your accuracy. You can even add suppressors and extra magazine clips to help you last longer in the battlefield. The game has a wide variety of customizable guns, which is of course one of the biggest factors of First Person Shooters. You would probably mistake this game for a tactical shooter after seeing what its armory holds.
 
Heartbeat detectors for example, are used to locate your enemies in the field. The game also caters a bunch of sneaky traps like mines and marking grenades to help you suppress the opposing team.
 
Each gun has their own optimized way of usage so do pick what further compliments your playstyle.
 

*KABOOM! BAM BAM BAM! Thududududududududududududu*

Other than the great visuals, what pulls this game together is the brilliant sound effects. Hearing your gear wiggle as you walk around the area kind of gives you the heavily geared feeling. It almost feels like the character is already a real life extension of your body.
 
Don’t tell me that we’ll be doing deathmatches till the game dies.
Of course not! Combat arms also has a nice set of missions to help remove the repetitive gameplay. There’s the Spy hunt scenario which is more like a Metal Gear type mission. In this mode you’ll be playing alongside a designated team who will then be on a mission to find three sources of intel. After getting the information you need, you will then become a turncoat super spy whose mission is to reach the designated area before your enemies (namely the entire squad and your now X-teamnmates) get a hold of you. This mode is quite fun especially if you’re into spy flicks.
 
The game also has a couple of old scenarios like: Capture the Flag, Team Deathmatch, Individual Deathmatch, and of course the nostalgic Plant the Bomb Scenario.
 
If you think that this is as silly as the game could get then you’re dead wrong. The Snowball fight mode lets players mash each other with snowballs rather than bullets. Silly I know, but it’s quite hilarious really. Each kill you make will lessen the opposing team’s respawn point. Once a team’s respawn point reaches zero, that team will no longer be able to spawn members making the other team the victors.
 
Yeah this game IS pretty good, and the words Free to Play makes it a whole lot better. I’m telling ya, Free to Play is music to my ears.
 

IT’S TAEM! FOR WOAAR!

Tired of de_dust? Combat Arms has a good lineup of maps ready for your to wreak havoc on. Each map looks a lot different from the others; meaning you wont have to grouch over getting to play in the same repetitive areas over and over again.
 

The Final Verdict

There’s no doubt that games like these are bound to have a lot of players. This one however, is probably the next gen of free to play shooters. Excellent graphics, crazy sound effects, high replay value, this game is anything but bad. After seeing this game up close, I don’t think I’ll be deleting it from my system any time soon. The maps are quite exquisite. I don’t think I’ll even be close to getting tired of this game. Competing with other people in the battlefield is quite addictive and this game greatly emphasizes that war-ish feeling. Instead of formulating a new gimmick that would change the meta of FPSes, this game just went straight and re stabilized the traditional First Person genre. It is a classic… but then again… a classic reborn.
 
Combat arms is marvelous to behold, so whether you’re an FPS fan or just a random gamer who wants to try something new then this game is for you.
 
This game ROCKS in my book.
 
Pros:
– Decent visuals
– Sounds
– Gameplay and control scheme
 
The Bad:
– Lag issues
– Frame tearing
– Framerate jump

Regnum Online Review: An Atmospheric And Unique MMORPG

By Bryan King (Bryan), Onrpg writer
 
Regnum Online is developed by NGD Studios, an Argentinean development studio.
 
Dark days have shadowed the world of Regnum, with three factions locked in a perpetual war…
Alsius, the home of Dwarves, Nordos, and Uthgars.
Ignis, the empire of Dark Elves, Humans, and Moloks.
Syrtis, the area of Elves, Half Elves, and Alturians.
The war is in your hands, chosen one… which realm will you choose?
 
Regnum Online offers an MMORPG experience that isn’t found in many these days. It’s atmospheric, and provides great PvE and RvRvR experiences for people of different tastes. The immersion levels are high, set in a fantasy world full of lore, unique characters, and a beautiful environment.
 

Gameplay

Creating a character on Regnum heavily depends on Realm and Race. You are able to pick from three realms, Alsius, Ignis, and Syrtis. Each of these realms contains three races, which depend on what class you will be able to make. For example, Syrtis Half-Elves are not able to become Mages, due to the lore behind their class that explains how they shed their magic for a place with the Light Elves. There are three main classes that you are able to choose from, Warrior, Archer, and Magician. These three classes have two options for sub-classes they can pick at level 10. The Warrior is able to choose the Knight and Barbarian. The Archer is able to choose the Hunter and Marksman. And the Magician is able to choose the Warlock and Conjurer.
 
Starting out in Regnum is expressed with mixed feelings. Modern gamers may not enjoy the slower, more tactical combat. But classic gamers may play the game and pay homage to the games that got the MMO industry on its feet. Pre-level 10, the game starts you off with a large set of quests to introduce you to the game and gradually let you explore more of the world. One of my personal favorites in the game is that the lore is extremely well done. The storyline in the game could compare to that of most pay-to-play games, which usually have whole writing teams dedicated to working on storyline.
 
Regnum has you start with “skill trees” for each class. The more points you have in a skill tree, the more skills that unlock in that tree depending on your level. Weapons also play a major role in your combat abilities, as they grant special stats (increased attack speed, constitution, etc.) and general attack bonuses (increased slashing damage, fire damage, thunder damage, etc.).
 

RvR and Invasion System

The central area of Regnum Online is known as the “War Zone”, in this area, players from each faction compete in a territorial-styled war. Each realm has three altars, two forts, and a castle. In this area, players are free to kill members of enemy factions, but this isn’t your typical run-of-the-mill RvR, there is a deeper reason behind it all. This leads us the Invasion System. There is a process behind this system, which is capturing enemy defenses, capturing the gems and finally accessing the rewards.

As the gems are behind enemy walls, in order to obtain them, a realm must gain access to the enemy territory behind their Great Wall. This means that their Gate has to be destroyed, as it is the only way to penetrate the Great Wall of an enemy realm. The Gate though is invulnerable to attacks, unless the “realm defenses” are captured. This means that in order to be able to attack an enemy gate, a realm must hold the castle and at least one fort of the enemy realm, for 30 minutes. If they hold both forts and the castle, the attacking realm has to hold them for 15 minutes instead.
The gems of each realm are located on pedestals inside their realm, and also possibly on the Gem Portal if this realm has managed to obtain other enemy gems. In order to obtain them, the enemy must run to the pedestals (and possibly the enemy Gem Portal) and pick up the gem. In order to access the rewards, the Gem Portal needs to be opened. The Gem Portal holds 6 slots for gems. All 6 gems must be placed on the Gem Portal in order for it to open, 2 from each enemy realm, and your own 2 gems. The 4 enemy gems must be placed on the Gem Portal before the gems of that realm can be picked up by allies from their pedestals.
After all 6 gems have been placed on the Gem Portal, the Portal opens and grants access to the final rewards.

Opening the Gem Portal grants access to a hidden cave in the map. Inside that cave, a golden dragon is there to grant one wish to the people who enter it. A list of choices is presented to the players inside, and each player votes for 1 option.
The choices for the realm to choose are:

There Can Only Be One: This turns the cave into an arena: Everyone fights to the death, and the last player standing receives the Draconian Gem. This item may not be traded, and will stay in the player’s inventory for a week. As long as it is there, it will grant the player with bonus in health, mana, attack speed, hit chance, spell focus and character size.

Your Realm Shall Be Richer: A gold bonus of 15% is given to gold received as loot from killing monsters, and lasts for 1 week.Your Realm Shall Be Wiser:  An experience boost of 15% is given to experience received from killing monsters, and lasts for 1 week.

Enemy Shall Be Poorer [Available for each of the enemy realms]: A gold penalty of 10% is applied to gold received as loot from killing monsters, and lasts for 1 week.

Enemy Shall Be Foolish [Available for each of the enemy realms]: An experience penalty of 10% is applied to experience received from killing monsters, and lasts for 1 week.
 
In conclusion, Regnum offers a classic gaming experience that is not seen in many MMOs these days, and the RvR experience will attract older and newer gamers alike.
 

Graphics and Sound

Although gameplay is Regnum Online’s strong point, the graphics are not as comparable. The graphics are considered dated in today’s MMO marketplace. Things like textural animation and character details for RO may have been considered spectacular back in 2007, back when the game was released, but a short two years later, too many MMOs surpass it in terms of graphics. The environmental graphics are decently made, it’s very nice to see the sun rise over the Initiation Valley is beautiful to just sit down and watch.
 
Regnum’s music and SFX are not too shabby. The music in towns and villages are rather soothing, and blend well with Regnum’s environment. Once you get in combat, a pre-set combat song can turn on, whether you like this as a cue to you being in combat can be changed, as there is a setting to turn it off in the game’s audio settings. One thing I loved is that sound was pretty realistic. You will hear birds chirping during the day, crickets and silence at night. Spell and skill sounds are realistic too, not some of the overbearing techno remixes you hear once you cast a simple Fireball in most MMOs (joking, of course).
 

In Conclusion…

Sure, Regnum Online isn’t one of the newest games on the market. It doesn’t have the prettiest graphics. But the gameplay and combat options are just unsurpassable. If you’re looking for an MMO that can compare to your favorite classic MMORPGs, offers a strong PvP system, and creates a storyline and environment so deep, you will actually READ the stories NPCs tell you (and I haven’t done that in a while), give Regnum Online a try, you will not be disappointed.
 
Pros:
– Superb gameplay
– Complex and tactical RvR/PvP
– Well written lore
 
Cons:
– Dated graphics
– Unneeded sounds
– Feels slow in beginning

Sacred Seasons

Join the adventures of Sacred Seasons, a free-to-play MMORPG. The Heartlands was once a peaceful place, but now the corrupted great spirit of legend, driven mad, has been set loose upon the world. It’s up to you and your friends to answer the call to arms and defend the Heartlands.