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Auto Assault

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

Most of the RPG games feature swords and sorcery as part and parcel of the games on the market. But in fact, this is not the case with this game, named Auto Assault. This is an online role-playing game from NCsoft and developer NetDevil.

Instead of dealing with grumpy dwarves, haughty elves, and of course with the cheeky peasants, Auto Assault is set in a post-apocalyptic world. Here, 3 different races battle it out for supremacy. Yes, not with swords here, but with highly customized fighting vehicles. Auto Assault is a part Road Warrior, part Twisted Metal: Black, and all online RPG.

If one has played any online RPGs before, then the character creation system will without any doubt be familiar. The first thing to do in the game is to select from the 3 races in the game (human, mutant, and biomek), and then select a character class.

After doing this, gamers can customize the character’s appearance by selecting different body types, hairstyles, and more.

The bounty hunter in the game is a sort of a scout-type class for the humans, as they are focused on stealth and hit-and-run techniques.

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Aion: The Tower of Eternity Hands-on

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

NCsoft’s Aion: The Tower of Eternity is one of the most interesting. This game is fully new high-fantasy MMORPG that has developed in Korea. The developers have noted that this RPG game is to be designed and aimed at a worldwide market. The game uses the same Crytek engine which has been used in the FPS game Far Cry in order to produce some extremely colorful and lush environments and that is full of fully physics-based elements like water, for example, which will slow down characters trying to slog through it.

The greenery in the forest and wetlands environments of the game is pretty thick and the player models are adorned in very ornate armor that exhibits a very Korean or Eastern sensibility in character design. The weather effects in the game are also there, and these gives the real effect on gameplay by using fire-based attacks in a driving rain, for example, it won’t be as effective, while using water-based attacks in the same type of weather can make those spells even stronger.

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City of Villains

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

It is sometimes said that it’s good to be evil. Even this is the lesson that NCsoft and Cryptic Studios hope that everybody will learn later this year, when the City of Villains will get launched. This is a in fact a follow-up to last year’s online role-playing game City of Heroes. It will twist things around a bit. Instead of creating a unique and powerful superhero this time and saving the world from destruction, gamers will create a dastardly supervillain that is looking forward to become rich, powerful, and also at the same time infamous. Gamers will not only battle computer-controlled opponents, but you’ll also get into scruffs with other villains, not to mention of those meddling superheroes. City of Villains is presently undergoing its beta test for the launch.

This game, City of Villains features a host of new locales to explore. These locales also includes the Rogue Isles and the city of Port Oaks. According to the creative director of City of Villains’, Jack Emmert, they already know the background for the Rogue Islands.

But about the Port Oaks he said that it is one of the islands that makes up the Rogue Isles chain. Much like the other islands, Port Oaks’ gothic architecture reveals signs of French colonization. It is dominated by a large fortress at one end, Fort Hades.

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