Runes of Magic unveils the starting area of Taborea

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and in Runes of Magic (AKA Radiant Arcana), Runewaker Entertainment has taken all they loved about Ultima Online and World of Warcraft, combined that with elements from EverQuest, EverQuest II and Final Fantasy XI Online to make a free-to-play MMORPG combining all the elements of both Western and Eastern games. It's like a highly-concentrated booster shot of high fantasy goodness -- and it's free!

Runes of Magic will include a dual class system, where you will choose a primary and a secondary class, armor dying, player housing, crafting, an auction house, unique mounts, a fully customizable user interface and either click-to-move or WASD controls.

The starter zone of Taborea has a deep and rich lore, a colony struggling to stave off the darkness, with your help. You'll need a PDF reader to read that, but we have some of the highlights in our gallery. Can a free-to-play homage to some of the Western world's greatest MMOs succeed on in North America? Distributor Frogster is looking for a US publisher to take that chance.

The game play video from the Chinese open beta (you can find that after the break) shows clearly the developers at Runewaker loved World of Warcraft perhaps more than is really healthy. Still, a free-to-play WoW clone may be exactly what players want, and Runes of Magic may just be different enough to make it interesting.



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Looks cool :D

It's not that bad considering it's free to play right.

For those looking for a free to play WOW, Couldn't really go wrong with this one. May be limited a few features but still playable none the less.

heh, it looks pretty good but i'm amazed with how borign they've managed to make fighting look... "right, now you stand there swinging your arms in a spazem like motion and i'll turn my back to you and you'll get xapped now and then without me even moving"

Might try it though.

Its too God damn SLOW

Holy crap dude <_<

for someone used to play L2 and shit that would make me fall asleep <.<

Which is sad since it looks ok.

thats pretty mush WoW's PVE.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzz the fights look boring as hell... just like in WoW.... :S maybe more !

The fights look somewhat like FFXI's~ <: But still.. more dull than that.
I'd try it for sure though, if it really has all those features. ><

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Originally Posted by Candyholic

The fights look somewhat like FFXI's~ <: But still.. more dull than that.
I'd try it for sure though, if it really has all those features. ><

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FFXI has a weird fighting system, this game just have a pretty slow normal fighting system :S

am sorry to say this, but just by looking, it seem like another failure XD

the combat is slow aw comon but lets hope they will have lots of content to keep you playing whit such a slow combat sistem(but still dosnt change the fact that you can fall asleep whail playing it even metal music would not help)XD

In my personal opinion it looks nice. Although, it may look boring with out the sound and stuff. If the battle soun is nice, and you can hear what is going on. May seem to "speed" up the battle.

Sincerely,
Ancestrial