IanAtlantica Online
June 19th 2009 07:12
Atlantica Online is a 3D massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) which began its official run at 6p.m. PDT on October 30, 2008.
The game is set in an alternate history Earth, with the game map consisting of large parts of the northern hemisphere. The setting is fantasy-themed with elements of steampunk.
The game is free-to-play but generates revenue through the company's online shop which sells items that alter players' in-game appearance or enhances players' abilities.
The game features a persistent world populated by player-generated characters and NPCs. At character creation, a player selects one of seven basic classes and can then customize the character's appearance. There are no races to choose from; only humans are available. The character's class decides what armor that character can wear and what weapons and skills that character can use in battle.
Players do not fight with the starting character alone; as each character levels up, it can acquire player-controlled mercenaries. During the mandatory tutorial section at the beginning of the game, a player chooses his/her first two mercenaries; as the character gains levels, it can control more mercenaries, up to the maximum of eight, which makes for a party of maximum size nine. Players can store additional mercenaries in mercenary rooms.
All characters can, in addition to their battle skills, pursue a number of different crafting abilities.
The game design puts strong emphasis on the concept of guilds. Guilds can control the various towns on the game map. Strong guilds can found nations and wage war on one another.
Battle in Atlantica Online is rather unusual for the genre as it is turn-based. Representations of hostile parties wander around the landscape; if a player touches such a representation, his/her party and the enemy party are transferred to a separate battlefield similar in fashion to battles in the Final Fantasy series and remain there until the battle is resolved.
Ever since its release, it is consistently rated by members of various MMO website portals as one of the top MMO games. To learn more or get started with Atlantica Online, visit the official website here.
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article for Atlantica Online.
The game is set in an alternate history Earth, with the game map consisting of large parts of the northern hemisphere. The setting is fantasy-themed with elements of steampunk.
The game is free-to-play but generates revenue through the company's online shop which sells items that alter players' in-game appearance or enhances players' abilities.
The game features a persistent world populated by player-generated characters and NPCs. At character creation, a player selects one of seven basic classes and can then customize the character's appearance. There are no races to choose from; only humans are available. The character's class decides what armor that character can wear and what weapons and skills that character can use in battle.
Players do not fight with the starting character alone; as each character levels up, it can acquire player-controlled mercenaries. During the mandatory tutorial section at the beginning of the game, a player chooses his/her first two mercenaries; as the character gains levels, it can control more mercenaries, up to the maximum of eight, which makes for a party of maximum size nine. Players can store additional mercenaries in mercenary rooms.
All characters can, in addition to their battle skills, pursue a number of different crafting abilities.
The game design puts strong emphasis on the concept of guilds. Guilds can control the various towns on the game map. Strong guilds can found nations and wage war on one another.
Battle in Atlantica Online is rather unusual for the genre as it is turn-based. Representations of hostile parties wander around the landscape; if a player touches such a representation, his/her party and the enemy party are transferred to a separate battlefield similar in fashion to battles in the Final Fantasy series and remain there until the battle is resolved.
Ever since its release, it is consistently rated by members of various MMO website portals as one of the top MMO games. To learn more or get started with Atlantica Online, visit the official website here.
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article for Atlantica Online.
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