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Cool upcoming games 2011

2011-02-15T01:44:00.000+02:00

Guild Wars 2
Guild Wars 2 is the sequel of the popular MMORPG Guild Wars. The new game will feature new game-engine, changes in character development and better PVP system. It will emphasize more on the massively multiplayer part. Guild Wars 1 was pretty good game so I think Guild Wars 2 will be a hit.

Rift
Rift is a fantasy MMORPG that looks very promising. Its release date is just few days from now so I’m very excited! I'll write more later.

The Exiled Realm of Arborea
The Exiled Realm of Arborea or Tera Online is another promising MMORPG game that will be released this year. It will be somewhat unique with its non-targeted PVP system. Really this click to select and then attack system was getting very boring.

Star Wars: The Old Republic
Star Wars: The Old Republic is an upcoming sci-fi, mmo game based in the Star Wars universe.

Voyage Century - beautiful free to play game

2010-12-26T09:23:00.002+02:00

Site: http://vc.igg.com/
Developer: Snail Games
Publisher: IGG

Voyage Century is a free to play, 3D MMORPG set in 16-th century Europe. The game has beautiful medieval theme and the player can feel the spirit of exploration and enjoy totally new adventure.

Sea Battles, Sea Battles, Sea Battles!
The game offers epic sea battles – hundreds of warships fight each other at the same moment! You can feel the real tension of an awesome sea battle with realistic water graphics and beautiful, medieval themed ships.

Characters
At the beginning players can choose from four different character types.
Players start their journey in the city of Athens. The game has more than 40 cities with amazing sceneries but the main part in the game takes the sea.

Video Trailer

Harvest: Massive Encounter – survival strategy game

2010-11-06T14:12:00.002+02:00

Harvest: Massive Encounter is an awesome (and I mean AWESOME) real time td and strategy game by Oxeye Game Studio. The game is not your usual tower defense type, but a unique, amazing and epic experience!

Story
Gold rush! Yeah, gold rush in space! Everyone wants to be rich. You also head the opportunity but there are the nasty aliens who stay between you and your success!
Gameplay
Truly epic! But lets start at the beginning. The game starts with a small base with two power plants and some power links. Yep, everything needs energy, so the player will build power plants and links most of the time. The mining is very important, cause it’s the only way to obtain money. And depending on the mode the player will need to build its defense structures - lasers and missile turrets. The lasers are really cool – you can link them to obtain a high-power beam.

Some game tricks and cheats:

To build a structure faster click on it and choose the option to have all linked power nodes to focus their energy on it.
To expand the map - build structures at the edges.
Don’t forget to sell your harvesters when the nearest minerals are depleted.

Site: http://www.oxeyegames.com/harvest/

QuarkStar Mission

2010-10-19T13:12:00.000+03:00

Online game - Quark Star Mission.

Harvest Massive Encounter - awesome tower defense game

2010-10-04T21:09:00.000+03:00

Awesome but very hard tower defense game. I'll write a detailed review later.

YS Online Trailer

2010-09-22T12:48:00.002+03:00

OK, I admit it, the game looks good! I can't understand why the game is down and not available.

YS: The Oath in Felghana

2010-09-22T12:36:00.001+03:00

These days I had the chance to play one awesome Japanese game – YS.
The YS series are several RPG games but here I’ll talk only for YS: The Oath in Felghana. I have no background information about the series, so if you are an old YS fan, don’t shoot at me, those are my first impressions only.
The series are centered at the adventures of Adol, our main hero. As every hero, he is cool, his favorite breakfast is fried monsters and of course he has to save the world and the young lady. Yep, there is a beautiful, blondie young lady to be saved.

Gameplay
The game controls are smooth and after some time I actually forgot that the real world is outside the screen. The game world is beautiful but deadly so the players don’t have much time to relax. The average monsters are somewhat easy to be beaten but there are strong boss monsters. During his journey, Adol finds some hidden treasures – powerful artifacts that help him in some tough situations. For example the first boss is unpassable without the Firedragon Amulet. Some places on the map a too high and you can’t reach them unless you use the wind bracelet.

The Story
The game starts with short story as Adol and his friend arrived at Felghana. The game follows the story closely with series of quests that reveal the characters background and motivation. The plot is interesting even without the action but together they form an awesome adventure.

MMORPG
As I heard there is an MMORPG YS Online, currently in Open Beta. I’ll try to learn more and I’ll make a separate post about it. I hope it is as good as the series, I can’t wait to play it!

Trailer:

zOMG! – flash MMO

2010-03-21T00:18:00.002+02:00

Site: http://www.gaiaonline.com/games/zomg/

zOMG! is a combat MMO by Gaia Interactive. At first sight the game is quite entertaining for a browser based, flash MMO.

I haven’t played much today but my first impressions are very good.
The game seems to have enough depth and the gameplay isn’t boring. There are a lot of quests and an interesting story behind them. I’ll spent some more time playing and maybe tomorrow I’ll write a real review.

Tribal Trouble 2 – browser-based MMORTS

2010-03-18T23:44:00.006+02:00

Site: http://www.tribaltrouble2.com/

Do you want to be a Viking? Do you want to govern a tribe and lead an adventurer’s life?

Tribal Trouble 2 is a real time strategy game with cool Vikings Theme. The game has several bad points but overall it is a fun and relaxing experience. I didn’t like the fact that most of the important upgrades need players to spend real money. Too much of them, I think.
Don’t get me wrong, Tribal Trouble 2 s a cool game with many nice features.

Atlantica Online – turn-based, strategic 3D MMORPG?!

2010-03-14T19:47:00.003+02:00

Atlantica Online is a turn-based, free-to-play, 3D MMORPG game by NDOORS. It is a fantasy game but the game map represents the real world with some real places.
The game features beautiful, high-quality graphics, cool music and fascinating story line.

Classes
Atlantica Online has nine available classes:

Sword character – his strong points are defense and vitality
Spear character – he can hit two enemies at once
Axe character – he is the character with greatest physical strength. He can attack three enemies simultaneously.
Gun character – long range attacker who can attack three enemies at once if they are in a straight line.
Bow character – character with low vitality and high evasion, who can attack enemies from the back row.
Cannon character – he attacks up to five enemies in a cross pattern. This character has much vitality but relatively low action powers.
Staff character – with low vitality and defense, the staff character is a magic attacker who can also support allies with recovery spells.
Maniac – he can attack an entire row at once. This character can be creating only if a player has a 100+ character.
Musician – this character can attack two enemies in a line. Musicians have DoD(Damage over Time) magic.

Mercenaries
Players do not fight alone like in the typical MMORPG genre, in Atlantica Online players are accompanied by mercenaries who fight alongside. New players obtain their first two mercenaries during the tutorial section of the game. There are several different mercenary types, each with its own strong points and unique style.

Battles
Cool turn based MMORPGs are relatively rare but Atlantica sure is one of them. The battle occurs in a separate world, the both parties are transferred there – it is a feature similar to Final Fantasy battlefields. Tactics plays great role here as the positioning of the character and the mercenaries is important for the final result of the battle.
The game offers PVP battles in different forms, guilds can even wage wars. The wars actually consist of pvp battles of max 3x3 players.

Site: http://atlantica.ndoorsgames.com/

Trailers:

Gekkeiju Online

2010-03-08T18:15:00.008+02:00

Gekkeiju Online is a fantasy themed, 3D MMORPG with cute anime-styled graphics. The game needs a little more polishing but even now it is awesome and fun.
Gekkeiju Online offers nine playable races:

Humans
Elves
Wild Elves
Dark Elves
Halflings
Dwarves
Half-giants
Goblins
Catfolk

The game has five character classes – warrior, magic user, commoner, divine artist and dark artist. The character development is a little strange – I haven’t met similar system in any other MMO game.
Also levels aren’t obtained automatically but players need to purchase their next level from a training NPC with the collected experience. For the first ten levels your character will learn its skills and spells as it advances. After level 10 you will need to join a guild.

Website: http://www.gekkeijuonline.com/

Digimon Battle – upcoming Digimon MMO game

2010-02-23T09:36:00.001+02:00

New Digimon MMO is coming soon! Digimon Battle is the new title, announced by WeMade Entertainment.

Site: http://www.digimonbattle.com/

World of Tanks – new PVP oriented MMO game

2010-02-18T09:28:00.002+02:00

World of Tanks is new MMO action game announced just recently by WARGAMING.NET. The game would be focused mainly on PVP battles with wide range of modes like quick random battles, mini-missions, clan wars and more.
World of Tanks is promised to be free to play so I presume many people will try it. The game will feature variety of tank models from different historical events and countries.
Tiger tank, Soviet T-34, American 155mm M40 Gun Motor Carriage are some of the models mentioned on the press release.

Site: http://www.worldoftanks.com/

Tales of Fantasy - upcoming MMORPG

2010-02-14T09:46:00.001+02:00

Site: http://tof.igg.com/

Tales of Fantasy is new, 3D MMORPG published by IGG. The game will offer many mounts and the ability to tame wild monsters. Characters will be able to obtain wings and fly as there is story about it in the teaser website.

Players will be able to fight while riding different creatures, even mount change can be possible in the middle of the battle.
Players will be able to craft and enchant their equipment and create unique weapons and items.

Screenshots:

Lineage2 with free trial

2010-02-11T09:09:00.001+02:00

http://www.lineage2.com/freetrial

Lineage2 is one of the first and most awesome MMORPG games I’ve ever played. It has a fantasy world (the world of Aden), 36 classes, 6 races, countless quests, real castle sieges, real and fast PVP battles.
The game is pay to play and this is the only reason many people stay away of it but I think, it’s the only option for really fun gameplay.

I played Lineage 2 some time ago, in fact I spent more than a year, working during the day and playing during the night. This time was so fun, I haven’t played any other game with such enjoyment.

I got dragon, err … not really – Last Chaos first impressions

2010-02-08T14:58:00.002+02:00

Last Chaos is cool, free-to-play MMORPG with a fantasy theme. I started to play it just recently but here is my review.

Sorcerer – first impression
After some time playing a mage I created a sorcerer and started again. The sorcerer is something between summoner and fighter with magic. He has some relatively strong summons and several close range attack skills. The summons aren’t fully controlled, you can only decide their mode – attack, attack second, defend and follow. They stay in attack mode very short interval of time so you can’t leave your character sitting somewhere and getting experience while you are away, drinking coffee.
I get pissed off because the summons leave attack mode if I move my character even a little. There is no such problem with attack second though.
The summoner is a weak character, maybe the weakest of the all Last Chaos characters. If you intend to PVP, choose another one. Or be prepared to think fast and consider your character’s weak and strong points.

Getting basic consumables
If you a newbie in Last Chaos you may have problems in obtaining consumables like HP and MP potions and so on. You can buy potions from one NPC in the town but the prices are too high. I had this problem – all my money went for potions even though I don’t use much.

Herb field

So what is the solution?
The game emphasizes much on the production. You can produce your own potions very easy – for hp potions you need to collect herbs, for mp potions – waves (or something like this) and for pet food for hatchling dragons and ponies you need to mine ore. Yep, you feed your pet pony with ore. Poor little creature. I can understand dragons eating ore, but horses? Also if your pet dragon or horse feels ill and its HP goes down you can give it some herbs. And if the creatures by any chance start to dislike you, you must feed it with waves and it will be the same again.
Sorry, I was talking about the potions. To produce potions from your ingredients you need a recipe and a skill. You have first level skill by default so you can collect materials and make first level potions. The recipe is obtained from the same NPC who sells potions. You need to learn some skills to produce better potions and collect more resources but be careful with your sp points.

Getting waves for MP potions

Ore is healthy breakfast for dragon babies.

Moon stones
You can obtain moonstones as a regular drop from the monsters. There are several levels of moonstones. You can exchange them for a random reward at the statue in the middle of the town.

Dragons and Dragon Hatchlings
To obtain a hatchling you need to finish a quest called Drake's Egg. You get the quest from Loraine, the NPC near the class masters. First thing you need to do is to obtain a Dragon Egg. It drops from the monsters around the town, I get even two for very short time. You can purchase an egg from the other players. With the egg, you talk again with Loraine, and she sends you to the second town to talk with some other NPC, I forgot his name now. Some archeologist, maybe. You teleport to the second town and talk with him and that’s the quest. Congrats, now you have baby dragon. To find the teleporter, search for a NPC with a teleporter before its name in the NPC list. It’s location is near the PVP arenas.
In the second town you can talk with any NPC for a direction. Don’t be shy, they are only Non Player Characters.

Cute

Horse and Pony
To get a pony you need to finish quest called Pan’s Flute. It is given by Loraine again, and it is very similar to the Dragon quest. At the end, you obtain funny, fat pony with short legs that eats ore and needs wave to like you.

The pets you obtain from these two quests are level 1 and they level up while you fight in their company. They get only a tiny bit of your experience and they level up very slow. I got bored even before my pet dragon reach level 2. Also, aggressive mobs tend to attack your pet first if you don’t attack them. So at the beginning pets are just a nuisance. Of course, it is cool to ride a horse or a dragon, but they level up so slow …

Funny

I’ll stop here for today. I must write something about the personal dungeons, fighting the Barlog and so on.

NEO Online

2010-02-05T09:28:00.003+02:00

Site: http://neo.playomg.com

NEO Online or New Era Odyssey Online is a new fantasy MMORPG with many cool features. Its official closed beta is scheduled for February, 8th, so I look forward to try it and share my experience with you.

What I know about the game till now is that it offers great character development freedom, as any character can learn any skill as long as it has enough skill points. So you can have a sword-waving mage or a healing warrior.

The game will offer plenty of quests – from the important main story quests to minor and part-time quests. You can decide to share or not your quests with your party – it’s the first game I’ve ever seen with this option explicitly available in the interface.

PVP and PK
You can try your skill in a usual duel mode or choose to become a criminal (PK mode). Your character needs to be level 20 or above to be in a PK mode or to be PKed by other players so rest assured, on one will kill you until you feel good enough to fight back. .
The game offers three types of mass PVP – group battles, guild battles and territorial wars.

Canaan Online – another cute, browser-based MMO

2010-01-29T07:19:00.003+02:00

Site: http://en.canaan.gpotato.eu/

Canaan Online is new browser MMORPG by gPotato. It is a free to play game with manga characters and fun, colorful world. It is a flash game so you don’t need an installation to play. The game is somewhat similar to Neverland Online.

Canaan Online offers four playable classes – Ranger, Priest, Warrior and Mage. Each class has its specific skills and style. Pets take main part in the game as they accompany your character in battles and fight.

First Steps
Your character will receive a quest right at the beginning – fight the flying piglet. You must defeat one of the cute flying piglets near the village. If you can’t find them, use the link on the monster name in the tutorial window. You will have a piglet as a pet to accompany you in your first battle. The game offers even an auto-combat mode for lazy players like me.

Overall Impression
Canaan is nice and relaxing game, perfect for people who don’t want to be too engaged in an online MMO.

Aika, finally some good news

2010-01-28T23:21:00.002+02:00

Few days ago GPotato announced Aika’s closed beta is going to run from 3rd February to 9th February. More information about the closed beta can be found on the official website of the game http://aika.gpotato.com/.
The test will feature all 6 classes, 5 nations and 30 levels of character development.

Actually so many facts and rumors are spreading on the net that I can’t wait to try this game. I wonder why GPotato haven’t made it available yet. Aika is played in Korea for more than two years. I’ve heard that it has several gaming awards there.

In case you don’t know, Aika is beautiful, fantasy MMORPG that greatly emphasize on PVP or more likely RVR (Realm vs Realm) battles. The information about the game on the official site is too little and I don’t know Korean to learn more from their sites.

Edit: There is some fun information about the game on the official forum. And many, many fans. The community seems big and nice.

I found this mass video on youtube, I want to play this game!

Battle of the Immortals - new MMORPG by Perfect World Entertainment

2010-01-24T14:07:00.001+02:00

Site: http://boi.perfectworld.com/

Battle of the Immortals is the new, action MMORPG by Perfect World Entertainment. PWE created quite a buzz with releasing only bits of information and teasing the gamers’ world.

Here is a list of promised game features:

2.5D action MMORPG game
The story combines eastern and western mythologies - from North Mythology to Qin Dynasty
5 classes, each with unique skills and equipment
Zodiac System – your character will be empowered according to its creation date
Auto-Navigation Quest System
Soul Gear – unique sets of armor, that change as players use them
PVP with ranking system
Dungeons with bosses
Pets
Mounts
Territory Wars

Battle of the Immortals is promised to be unique title, not alike any other PWE game. The art of the game looks very cool, these armors catch my heart. I hope the game will be as good as they say.

Last Chaos – awesome MMORPG game

2010-01-23T19:54:00.004+02:00

Site: http://lastchaos.aeriagames.com/

Last Chaos is a free-to-play, 3D MMORPG with cool graphics and nice gameplay. The game looks incredibly similar to the popular pay to play MMORPG Lineage 2. More or less most of the free to play MMORPGs have problems with its gameplay. They sure look good but after some time the player finds no depth. In contrast, Last Chaos doesn’t have awesome graphics but its gameplay is ways above. I really was amazed to find myself addicted to a game so fast.

Graphics
The game has somewhat beautiful graphics with large castles, vast territories and strange monsters. There are also a lot of different pets and mounts with bright and cool graphics, they create part of the magic atmosphere in the game. The horses maybe are a bit to colorful but the overall impression isn’t bad.

Gameplay
One drawback of this cool game is the poor customization options of the game characters. I really prefer to have bigger choice.
When I play MMO games I prefer to play magic damage dealer so I created a mage character. At the beginning my mage was thrown in something called private dungeon – there you can fight different monsters (zombies and similar) and learn the interface. At the end of the dungeon I was teleported to the first town. What made me an impression was that the game has good number of players – many players were selling different goods and some number of newbies like me was fighting low level monsters outside the gates. There were also many players leveling their pets with low level mobs. The pets are something cool – with many different shapes and colors – not your usual stupid (or cute) looking pets but fantasy creatures with nice and eye-catching design.
The monsters also make an impression – they are not grouped by types and you can see many different kinds in one field. The foxes at the beginning look too much like the keltirs from L2.
The game offers large maps with many places for exploration and different mobs. You are actually free to do what you want, you are not bound to different quests like “run to point A, return to B, then run back to A”. Of course you can do quests as you want and they bring a lot of experience (I usually go and take all available quests before hunting but I don’t like to do quests only).

Classes
Last Chaos has six playable races – Knight, Healer, Mage, Rogue, Titan and Sorcerer.
Knight - The knight is your usual tough guy with sword and shield or two swords.
Healer – She is a surprise, she actually can use bow and arrows and she can become an archer or a cleric at her first job change.
Mage – I like characters with high damage, especially high AoE damage.
Rogue – fast and deadly character she can use dual daggers or a crossbow.
Titan – rough guy with high HP and sword or axe of course. Do you like barbarians? My brother always plays this type of characters.
Sorcerer – something like summoner, maybe strong character. I need to try this one soon.

PVP
I haven’t tried it yet, my character is brand new, but I prefer to play on PVP servers. I was surprised to see a bunch of high level, bored people at the town gates in the middle of PVP battle.

The story
Actually I spent some time reading the story – war between gods of course. Good against evil, light against darkness and we, the humans were always the good ones, blessed with many abilities. Now you can choose a side and fight for it. So cool, I wonder who writes these stories and why game creators or publishers won’t hire a professional writer to do the job. Either way, the game is cool, maybe the best free to play game out there.

Visual Utopia – browser-based, strategy MMO

2010-01-22T10:04:00.002+02:00

Site: http://visual-utopia.com

Visual Utopia (VU) is a free to play, strategy MMO game. It is a nice, browser-based adventure with many fun points.

The player takes the role of a ruler to develop and defend his land. At the beginning new players start in a tutorial mode, where you can learn the basics of the game. This MMO have some of the standard features of the genre – you can build structures, train soldiers, send them on missions, join forces with other rulers.

Dark Void - trailers

2010-01-20T21:41:00.000+02:00

Dark Void is a sci-fi, action, adventure game - you can learn more from this post: http://godsector.blogspot.com/2010/01/dark-void.html.

Dark Void

2010-01-20T16:24:00.001+02:00

Site: http://www.darkvoidgame.com/

Dark Void is a new sci-fi, action-adventure game published by Capcom. The game is developed by Airtight Games and uses Unreal 3 Engine.

The main character in the story, William Augustus Grey, is a pilot who crashes in the Bermuda Triangle. He is teleported to a strange world – the Void. The Void is a parallel world accessed through the vortices in the earth atmosphere. There William meets the Survivors, a group of people, trapped in the world of Void. Of course, the Survivors want to return home but they can’t because of the Watchers. The Watchers are the bad guys, an alien race who wants to enslave the mankind.
The game is available for Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Combat Arms - fast and addicting MMO FPS game

2010-01-18T17:46:00.007+02:00

Site ( Europe ): http://combatarms.nexoneu.com/
Site ( America ): http://combatarms.nexon.net/

Combat Arms is an online, free-to-play FPS game developed by Doobic Studios and published by Nexon. It is an addicting, fast-paced, strategic shooter with many customization options.

Players start in a lobby where they can join matches or create rooms and host a game.
Successful match brings experience and GP (Gear Points – in-game money). The experience is needed to obtain a higher rank (similar to real life army ranks), and players with higher rank can buy better weapons.

Combat Arms offers many different modes – One Man Army, Elimination, Quarantine, Fireteam. You may wonder what exactly these mode names mean – here is the list of modes and explanations for newbies:

One Man Army – Free for All Deathmatch
Fireteam – a cooperative, story-based game, something like team quest
Elimination – team match. A team must reach an amount of points (kills) first.
Elimination Pro – similar to Elimination but each player has only one life per round.
Search and Destroy – similar to Elimination, but one team is in offense (place bombs and destroy the other team fascility) and the other must defend itself.
Capture the Flag – popular mode in many FPS games.
Spy Hunt – strange mode where players can become spies through obtaining a special item – Intel Case. All other players hunt the spies but the spies have some advantages like speed and special armor. This mode has a phase 2 where the spy is only one (the person, who has gathered all suitcases), but he is equipped with some powerful weapons to fight all the other players.
Quarantine (Zombie mode) – Some of the players are chosen to be infected. They must infect all the other players, while the non-infected players must kill them or at least survive the match.
Snowball fight – Christmas event mode.

The gameplay is fast and addicting. If you are FPS and Combat Arms newbie you may feel a little confused at the beginning but the game is easy to play and fun. I’ll write separate gameplay review after this post.