20-7-2009 Game News : Scions of Fate 2 Surges + 4 Well-made MMOs

At the new project announcement conference "Brand New Mgame 2009" held on July 13, Mgame, celebrating its 10th anniversary of game operation, announced 5 new projects that are regarded as the new driving force for the company's future development in the following 10 years. The 5 new games include Scions of Fate 2, a traditional martial arts game different from its comic style prequel, the action RPG Valiant, the fantasy MMORPG WarBane, and War of Dragons (WOD) with giant dragons as the main characters, as well as the hybrid MMORPG ARGO

Scions of Fate 2

Mgame unveiled a CG promotion video for Scions of Fate 2. This video tells stories happening 30 years before and after the time when stories in the prequel Scions of Fate took place. Starting with Han Mi Jin, son of Han Bi Gong, the video shows the audience that Tan Hwa Lim leads the war between good and evil and launches a thrilling combat with a third force. The relationship among the main in-game characters like Han Bi Gong and Tan Hwa Lim, as well as the secondary quests based on the evolving storyline, have particularly caught the audience's eyes. Scions of Fate 2 is scheduled to start its closed beta at the end of this year

Meanwhile, the video also presents 4 classes available in this game, including "Warrior" common in martial arts works, "Warlock" capable of ranged attacks and able to summon and perform sound attacks, "Formation Master" good at warring tricks and strategies and "Assassin" capable of invisibility and surprise attacks

With the RvR mode based on the war between good and evil, group play and PvP mode at its core gameplay, Scions of Fate 2 integrates stunning online actions common in martial arts movies, so as to detail the fly skill (qinggong in Chinese) that allows players to move in the sky with the help of trees. A damage system that contains different martial arts style damages like internal injuries is also incorporated in this game

WarBane: Developers from three countries work on WarBane jointly

To enter the global market, Mgame tries to make WarBane with the joint efforts contributed by Korean, Chinese and Japanese developers. Specifically, developers from Japan will be responsible for the game content design, while developers from Korea will be responsible for programs and developers from China for modeling and execution. This professional dev team will strive to make a game suiting the taste of all players around the world

WarBane is set in the world where a holy war is inevitably ignited to prevent the resurrection of Fallen Lord and everyone chases the legendary ancient weapons. Mgame expressed that in this game, players will be able to apply skills to fight against huge quantities of NPC legions, and multi-players can also perform certain actions simultaneously to form group skills. In addition, a character transformation system and a monster combination system will be featured in WarBane

Valiant: Weapons Rock

Valiant is released to give players a lot of heart jumping actions to make the bravest among them step out and become the proper, upstanding role models in this online hangout. The dev team wants to convey a message that they are fervent to seek the spirit of manhood. The title of the game, Valiant, is self-explanatory enough. Valiant emphasizes multi-profession experience. The character profession will be determined by the weapon the player wields. The fact will be a perk to get each of you motivated and keep advancing your skill level. It is because you are allowed to try out a wide range of mixed professions as you max out each weapon skill and pick up new one to level up. With each new level you are up to, your character will be a force to be reckoned in this gaming world. Now Bow, Dual Wield Weapon, Sword and Axe are available in the game and ready for you to take a pick. Make a switch between these weapons while going on a killing spree. Sometimes you may get sick of the thrills of hacking. The fun can be easily regained by striking your enemies down with bow and arrow

Not too many efforts have been made by the dev team to distinct the three professions i.e. Warrior, Mage and Archer from each other. They focus more on how to help players bring their talents and weapon's power into full play while grouping. For this dedicated bunch, it's always nice to see players enjoy their game play through using various weapons. It will be deadly easy to smite your enemies by blocking their attack with shield held in your left hand and chop off their heads with strokes of your sword held in your right hand.

Dungeons featured in the game will house real life and death challenges, where you will get through obstacles, encounter ferocious boss mobs and resolve myriad puzzles. To enter, you must team up with your friends. The minimum team size is 4 players. And you are allowed to ally with no more than 7 players. Team spirit will help mark difference between victory and defeat while stupid skill choices will doom your combat. Besides these dungeon fights, this game has a good chunk of highly diverse combating experience in store for you, like Fight to Survive or Death Match to include everyone in the fun. Mobs defeated by you can even become your mounts

War of Dragons

According to Mgame, different from other games where dragons are usually mounts or bosses, War of Dragons has its in-game dragons work as the major force. War of Dragons mainly describes the conflicts among the three factions and eight races that co-exist with dragons in the long distant past. During game play, NPCs may not always act as players' helper. When necessary, player s will also have to compete against NPCs.

Mgame said that War of Dragons allows players to ride dragons to enjoy thrilling combats, including various strategic combats like air combats, air-to-ground combats and ground-to-air combats. The in-game dragons, having a class system and an upgrade system, can also give birth to baby dragons. And the death or birth of dragons will also have an impact on the country's power. The powerful and awesome dragons, however, are so rare that few people can get them.

By mmosite